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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1939
Page
4
Short local notices cover residents visiting Boys Town, Des Moines trips, trips to St Louis and New York, family visits, and returns from voyages. Several families travel or host relatives, with announcements of vacations, funerals, and post office dedication events in Atlantic and surrounding areas.
English Lutheran church in Avoca concludes two weeks of daily vacation Bible school with ice cream for 25 attendees. Rev. Elmer C. Christensen leads the program and invites United Lutheran church of Shelby to attend outdoor services at Bill Hint's grove on Sunday June 25 followed by a picnic lunch and recreation. Shelby church currently lacks a pastor.
A boy should have time to choose the vocation that suits him best and not be rushed into just any occupation for the sake of bread and butter.
Avoca Iowa June 16 Daily Vacation Bible school sponsored by First Lutheran church has 100 children enrolled says Rev Joseph Gerst pastor A rally is planned Sunday June 18 at Fred Holtz grove with recreation and entertainment Miss Dorothy Hinz will join the group on cornet for song service due to piano access completion of Bible training set for Wednesday June 21.
Chicago visitors Lyle Hayter and his parents came to town this week to meet with relatives. Miss Janice Scholl, daughter of Mr and Mrs Lester Scholl, recently graduated from Grand Island Business College and has secured a position with the L. K. Coryell Oil Company in Lincoln Nebraska.
George Jessel and Norma Talmadge, a long married pair since 1934, announce they are living apart though not ruling out divorce. The separation surprised Hollywood, where their marriage was once hailed as an ideal union.
The piece notes Belmont Abbey near Gastonia North Carolina as the only cathedral abbey in the United States. It describes direct orders from Rome and Pope aligned checks for equipment and upkeep of a modern American co ed college.
A witty remark frames an explorer as someone who runs from it all and returns to recount the hardship faced, turning exile into a lasting story.
A mother claims her married son’s ailments stem from his wife not cooking wholesome meals. The piece portrays domestic tensions and health concerns linked to family diet.
The Roosevelt administration secured four major changes from the House Appropriations Committee on the relief bill. Changes include raising local project federal contribution limits to 40 000 and 50 000, requiring 25 percent WPA labor on 125 000 000 projects, permitting allocations to other federal agencies with a 50 000 cost cap, and easing nonprofit cost limits for WPA grants to states. The effort to keep a one man WPA administration and to cap total WPA project costs at 500 000 failed.
Sioux City June 16 The Iowa state bar association convention ends after section meetings led by top jurists and lawyers. About five hundred barristers attended the banquet where Frank J Hogan president of the American bar association noted that seventy percent of the nation's highest executives are attorneys, claiming leadership rests with a tiny fraction of the population.
Discoveries of primitive man caves in Canada bolster the view that early inhabitants reached North America via the Bering Strait, adding a new piece to the migration history. The find suggests sustained occupation patterns and links to broader prehistoric movements across the continent.
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