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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1931
Page
7
In a tense sequence on a dark airfield, a clinging man escapes a moving amphibious craft while a plane skids to ground. Dave retrieves Joan from danger, gunfire ceases, and a tense standoff unfolds with Mueller’s crew demanding escape. Talbot and Dave face a sheriff’s justice after the chaotic showdown.
A fragmented report notes the Iowa Good Will Air Tour with a stop in Dewitt on June 16. Names such as Dick Hawley and Ottumwa appear in garbled form, indicating a small aircraft event or civic tour segment tied to goodwill efforts.
An unidentified ship joined the 1931 national air tour yesterday, bringing the total number of participating vessels to twenty nine. The Sun God was flown from Spokane to New York and back, completing a cross country leg.
June 16 report from Potts details colonial era color trends entering French fashion. Pastels share space with deep wine reds and browns, often paired with white. Navy fades in popularity, while emeralds and blues feature in evening wear.
A weekly report from Dr D. D. G. Steel notes scarlet fever cases in Jowa and Wood County along with diphtheria and whooping cough activity. Tuberculosis cases also appear in the warning data for the week ending June 11.
A large crowd attended the Mothe daughter Banquet at the Odd Fellows hall, pink and green decorations, garden flowers, and a varied program with readings, songs, dancing, and a two course luncheon. Graduate Nurses host Thursday bridge at Fugisang home postponed for a day.
Anamosa Iowa June 16 Police search for two bandits after an attempted robbery at a Shell station ended with a hail of bullets. The fleeing suspects jumped into a Buick with a New York license plate, and bystander firearms were fired as their car left. A body was found in the abandoned vehicle.
Two men died and a third injured when an eastbound freight train of seventy one cars hit a washout at Man's Run near Creswell, Pennsylvania. Engineer Ernest B. Cantwell of Wilmington and fireman Aloysius L. Hayden of Philadelphia were killed. Conductor John R. Bard of Wilmington was badly injured and taken to a hospital in Lancaster.
Reported by Greaton and Jung, two highway bandits held up a truck driver near Creston this afternoon. The incident occurred on a route toward Greenlee with the driver unharmed though the crew fled the scene after the robbery.
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