08 Jun 1939
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1939
Page
1
Atlantic readers urged to call 585 M before 7 PM to arrange evening delivery. Notices on address changes, discontinuations, or other delivery requests should be made to the newspaper office, not the carrier.
The piece notes that fuel barges begin arriving in Omaha via the Missouri River. It questions the cost of dredging between St. Louis and Kansas City, highlighting $197,722 per mile spent through 1987 and $74,541,194 total, plus $4,521 per mile annually in maintenance. It argues river navigation is not presently justified and urges delaying dredging until needed.
The piece argues for rethinking school aims beyond book learning, notes youth tax burdens, critiques royal protection, and discusses refugee tragedy. It highlights weather impact in Iowa, mentions Democratic Party divisions around Roosevelt Garner, and cites Pennsylvania relief figures from 1938.
Washington report on Neville Chamberlain's last minute intervention to invite all senators and their wives to the royal garden party. Sir Charles Ross influenced Mackenzie and Lord Halifax, leading to the inclusion of senate leaders, amid royal visit tensions and security worries.
A visitor describes a late summer mood at the world fair with few unfinished concessions, hot crowds, and hotel price tensions. He notes quick train rides, penguin salt and pepper shakers as a souvenir, and a Romania restaurant menu with French prices. He praises Norway and Romanian exhibits, highlights the Sun Valley terrace, and observes the artificial ice rink and ski jump with perilous skating and skiing.
The item presents a list of five trivia questions from a knowledge test about geography citizenship, Denmark’s foreign minister, Mary Queen of Scots death warrant, and Mammoth Cave location. It asks readers to try the questions and then turn to the answers.
An episcopacy is a leadership structure headed by bishops in a church. Tony Lazzeri now plays for the New York Yankees. The state flower of New York is the rose. Lazaro Cardenas is president of Mexico. A will written entirely in the testator's handwriting is a holographic will.
A brief note on correct phrasing urges using endwise for phrase construction. The message cautions against saying endwaye and highlights standard spelling practice for clear communication.
A fragment notes injuries at a Washington event and mentions skater Erna Andersen from Norway. It lists dinner at two dollars with steak and a fair day priced at four dollars and seventy cents minus a wild purchase.
Walt Mason’s verse narrates James Jipson the calculating Quimper’s clerk who claimed rights over chores and was fired for lazily avoiding work. The piece contrasts petty labor disputes with a broader jab at insistence on unearned pay. Cash prizes totaling 250 dollars await corn stalk entrants at the Iowa State fair in August contest.
Des Moines Iowa June 8 Corn growers aim for 12 feet 6 inches or taller to qualify for the third annual All the News when it is News national tall corn contest to be in The News Telegraph Readers expect record heights this season.
Cass county 4-H girls plan a conservation field day at the Pellett gardens north of the city on a Wednesday in June. G. R. Ramsey extension forester from Ames leads the event. Frank Pellett will speak on bees and guide a tour of his wild flower preserve. Frank Tucker conservation officer will also speak.
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