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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1919
Page
8
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German lock smith apprentice Grothe was sentenced at Kiel to four months imprisonment for forgery after attempting to blackmail former chancellor Dr Bethmann Hollweg. He was arrested while trying to collect more money from the ex premier. Three pounds of Navy Beans for 25¢. E F Jones.
Washington June 11 1915 about two thousand former German officers and sailors held at Forts McPherson and Oglethorpe will be sent home starting around July 1. General Garibaldi grandson of the Italian liberator is in the U S on a mission for the Italian government.
Des Moines leads with 22 wins while Oklahoma City sits 20 and Tulsa 18. Yesterday Des Moines beat Omaha 2 to 1, Tulsa edged Wichita 5 to 3. Today St. Joe hosts Des Moines and Joplin plays Tulsa as others meet. American League and American Association results listed with multiple games and standings.
Real estate transfers listed with transfers dates May to June 1919. Mary C Jones transfers to N P Christensen for six hundred dollars. J L Robinson and wife transfer to Pearle Pugh for six thousand dollars. Rudolph and Inis transfer to Albert Anderson for three thousand one hundred dollars. Ernest Burke and others transfer to Floyd Dement for six thousand dollars. Bertha L Preston and husband transfer to Rachel A Snouffer for one thousand eight hundred dollars.
Mrs. Frank West and her daughter left Marne Iowa for Onawa to join Mr. West who bought a harness shop there. They will make their home in the city.
Three hundred pigs rebel on the Army street wharf in San Francisco as they head to a slaughterhouse. Leaders of the consignment force herd swine toward the bay, leaping into the water. Sailors aboard a merchant marine boat rescue efforts save some, but three leaders vanish.
An article argues motor trucks beat airships for wartime aid to northern France towns. It cites 15 airships delivering 8,000 pounds 250 miles from La Bourget to Maubeuge and Valenciennes at about 1 dollar per ton, while trucks would cost around 3 cents per pound, suggesting trucks have a strong cost advantage.
A Denver man Robert Thorne wed Mise Rose Thomas a Redland Oregon schoolteacher by long distance phone. The ceremony was arranged from Denver with witnesses, and Rev James Thomas of Denver performed the service read across the wire as the two sides connected from Ashland through the phone exchange.
News Telegraph Special reports W G G Nunn of Atlantic sold to Fred Scheef a 175 acre farm four miles north of Marne at 230 dollars per acre. The property lies one and a half miles north of town. Also noted are visits by Sam McCullough from Nebraska and Miss Grace Trailor from Omaha, plus Chas Ellis from Minnesota visiting friends before returning home.
Miss Natalia Nemingway, who went to Porto Rico to teach, was wooed and won by William L. Pope of Tennessee. Pope, assigned to a judicial post in the East Indies possession, met her there and the couple married.
Vancouver B C June 11 W J Findlay former British Columbia prohibition commissioner was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary Findlay was recently convicted of stealing seventy five cases of liquor from the government
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. W. Bigelow and family express gratitude to all who visited, offered sympathy during the illness and death of their son and brother, and for the floral offerings received.
Rome June 11. Italy's prewar birthrate of 41 per thousand fell during the war. Dr. William Charles White of Pittsburgh head of the American Red Cross Tuberculosis commission reports that by 1918 the rate had slumped to about 1 per thousand. He notes population gains from 1901 to 1915 totaling around 2,250,000 plus 1,800,000, with excess births over deaths in Italy rarely below ten per thousand and up to 23.2 per thousand in some districts.
Siou x City Ta June 11 Dr Frank E Mossman was formally inaugurated president of Morningside College. He had been in charge for several months. Bishop Homer Stuntz of Omaha led the ceremonial.
In Palo Alto county with sixteen of eighteen precincts reported the tally was 1,191 for paved roads and 969 against. The expected outcome suggests the federal paved roads issue will prevail in the county. Sioux County backed road surfacing for its elementary system, carrying by over 1,000 votes with 1,356 for and 445 against. Sioux Center, home of Senator Balkema, voted 220 yes and 38 no.
Mrs A W Binzer of Black River Falls Wisconsin says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound saved her from surgery after organic troubles and severe side pain kept her bedridden. She reports doctors urged operation but the remedy cured her and she urges others to try it with advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medical Co.
London reports no shipping to carry British settlers to Canada South Africa or Rhodesia until autumn. Free passage for former soldiers under new government proposals is unlikely before January. No passages to Australia or New Zealand before early 1920.
Nelson and McCaustland advertise cane and millet seed for wet field spots with Sudan grass also offered. Fresh crop is valued as feed and seed. price listed at 2.00 per bushel with quick orders encouraged.
Rock Island schedules list westbound trains with No 19 Flyer at 6 14 a.m. No 87 No 9 Local at 2 45 p.m. No 7 Flyer and Local at 9 50 p.m. daily between Stuart and Council Bluffs except Sunday. Also No 10 Local at 8 12 a.m. and No 7 08 p.m. between Council Bluffs and Stuart with Audubon Branch service.
Burlington Ia June 11 J F Deems has decided to run for governor next year He calls for direct simple and economical methods of conducting state government and has issued a formal announcement letter stating his bid for the Republican nomination The News Telegraph notes home delivery by calling Red 403 before seven tonight
Fragmented timetable text shows arrival and departure times for multiple locations including Elk Horn Hansen Hel'ts Gates Smith Lake Harrisdale and Atlantic with odd formatting and misread numbers. The snippet ends noting Tuesday and Thursdays.
Dr C L Campbell, physician and surgeon, practices in the Gillespie Building. Office in room unspecified. office phone 307. Residence listed as Black 138.
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