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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1923
Page
8
The News-Telegraph explains a recent misprint that twisted a Lewis Lewis town report about Joseph Lawton and wife moving into a new home. The item claimed the Lawsons had a nine pound daughter, a humorous error amid the paper’s vast daily operations and millions of mechanical steps.
Berkeley campus tale of a new student group named the Green Pea or Reyn and Mystic Order. Its president George Smith says the order fights manipulation by women toward men students. The constitution defines a green pea as someone hurt in love and out to lead the group with the greenest among them as president.
A playful Yale Record note remarks on students slipping out ten minutes early to avoid disturbing other classes. The item captures campus humor and routine classroom etiquette in a concise, period voice.
Governor Percival Baxter faced a public split after ordering Maine's state flag lowered to half mast for his dog Garry. The Irish setter, a 37 year family companion, accompanied him to the statehouse and rail trips, drawing praise from supporters and protest from others who found the attention undignified. Garry’s death led to debate over the governor’s prerogatives and animal attachment in state symbolism.
Allan Secor editor of Successful Farming addressed the Atlantic Rotary Club and guests on farming's ties to business. County Farm Agent L. K. Bennett thanked the club as Farm Bureau fights and progress were praised. The gathering, with strong Farm Bureau ties and a Sunnyside picnic invitation for members and families, enjoyed a lively, well-attended meeting.
A northwestern fan listened to radio programs in five different languages during an evening, surpassing the usual three music genres heard, good, bad, and indifferent.
Stockholm reports that Swedish knighthood dwindles as noble assemblies occur infrequently and many noble lines become extinct. Genealogical tables show 52 lines of counts, 185 caronicites, and 488 titled households with about 125 noble lines terminating in the last generation. Emigration rises as titles vanish, while aristocrats still influence military, political, and cultural life.
Glen Lackey left Atlantic hospital after days of medical treatment, and D C Gibson departed for Kirkmar to recover from a minor operation performed at Atlantic hospital. Four boys and four girls sustained injuries and were carried down ladders. one boy hung suspended before rescue. A broken axle caused the wreck.
United Press reports at Davenport Forest Park two roller coasters collided sixty feet above ground dumping riders into wreckage. Eight people were injured in the incident.
A Chicago woman files for divorce claiming her husband threw their dog at her. She argues the act violated her rights and questions whether a husband may do as he wishes with his own dog, per Detroit News.
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