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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1915
Page
6
Children day exercises were held at Noble Center to a large audience. Local residents Lon Mullen Henry Rathcamp and others delivered hogs in Cumberland. Several residents made Cumberland and Massena calls. Mrs Fred Wohlenhaus died at her Grant area home. A. E. Blohn lost a valuable horse last Monday.
Henry Miller rode a high bicycle to Griswold Sunday noting rough roads for conveyance. Lumber hauled from Cumberland by Chas Marten. J M Frank delivered about 1000 pounds of wool sold to Wm Wohlenhaus at 27 cents. Numerous calls and dinners at local homes. Amanda Sothman clerking in Cumberland store spent Sunday with parents. H B Snyder of Griswold took hog powder orders. Several residents visited Atlantic and Omaha for chores and shopping.
United Press reports a national effort by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis to use film to promote prevention. Universal’s The White Terror portrays Boyd a corrupt boss who profits from cure scams, undermined by Matthew Brand and a newspaper, leading to reform and a hospital and nurses program.
Ed Weisenburger, claiming to be a truthful liquor salesman, headlines the opening day with a tale of catching a one pound pike at White Bear Lake with his bare hands. He describes mistaking a sun fish for Jonah and the pike’s struggle to swallow the sunfish before finally surfacing near shore.
A mass of Iowans converge on the county attorney seeking advice on reclaiming money tied to Mrs. B. Whitaker and the Sir Francis Drake estate, with rumors of a $3.4 billion share and pending grand jury action. The scheme appears collapsed though Mrs. Whitaker denies illegality while lawyers eye potential earnings.
LaCrosse Tribune details a pad cyclone that struck the Finley farm on Finley Ridge. Eleven family members gathered for supper when disaster struck. Marie Finley and an infant died, the elderly mother killed, and many others injured or missing. The storm leveled the home, killed livestock, and uprooted trees across the ridge. Morris Finley survived, blown several rods from the house.
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