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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1917
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR shows names CHASE and CHAS as editors managers and CHABE CHASI CHABH as directors and stockholders with a partial business office line and telephone number. Indicates a small-town paper masthead truncated.
The piece argues small towns modernize by improving sanitation, paving, and homes. It cites Griswold as an example, noting major street work and new homes while the town undergoes paving and sewer projects, anticipating becoming an attractive Southwestern Iowa city.
A nostalgic column revisits 35 to 15 year-old Atlantic era memories. It recalls a vibrant town once known for progress and strong farming roots, contrasting past hardships with present industrial wealth, and ponders how people leave enduring imprints through deeds and lives.
Opinion piece argues firmly for ending social evils in cities by wiping out gambling, liquor, and vice. Maintains policymakers are right to act now as modern business needs and societal shifts reduce tolerance for old, harmful pleasures. Claims progress comes from decisive elimination, not gradual tolerance.
A fragmentary notice mentions a thorough examination guiding health diagnostics. It references DRS FINLEY and CHUBB at 608 Cheatnut Street and Franks Drug Co for revisits or reworks, with a guarded, period-appropriate tone.
A verse on rising prices and debt from 1917 warns of higher costs ahead for soup pie and liverwurst. The narrator contrasts thrifty savers with debtors facing bankers harshly as prices climb. Copyright 1917 Geo Matthew Adams.
Misses Della Marsh and Helen Frooks depart for Philadelphia aboard the Rhynland for a summer abroad. The city council met to plan a sewer system. William Barclay received a saloon permit. Allen Gifford visits en route to West Liberty with a bride. J W Carlson and brother haul lumber for hay barn repairs after a wind wreck. A poison scare on lower Elia street drew a doctor who found the man merely intoxicated. A baby girl arrived at the Bradburys near Lewis. Mrs B R Wasson leaves for Des Moines and Webster county. Mrs L W Strutz dies in Harlan with burial at Anita. Lena Wilken returns from Mt Vernon attending Cornell College.
In 1882, the Young Men's Amendment Club held a meeting at the temperance hall with Rev. E. S. Hill as speaker. The Telegraph reports ten dollars donated to Grinnell sufferers. Hill planned an Amendment talk in Whitneyville. Miss Bertha Temple left for Illinois with friends for several weeks. Dr. Cloughley of Audubon traveled to Des Moines. Mr. Galladay bought a farm southeast of the city to reside in Cass county. Isaac Hopper visited Audubon. John Applegate went to Colfax Springs to recuperate. Dr. Findley returned from Grinnell noting little of the arm’s horrors. Doug Morris, a leading hook and ladder team runner, departed on Number Four.
A New York report urges inventors to mail submissions to the Naval Consulting Board at 13 Park Row, noting the board is too busy for in person interviews. It advises clear single inventions per letter, brief novelty statements, patent status, and including drawings, signatures, and witnesses.
Des Moines housing experts urge strict controls on new construction and a long term, comprehensive campaign to make Des Moines a better home town. The report notes many built up districts lack sinks and proper disposal, with built in apartments dark indoors and insufficient municipal oversight compared to other states.
In Philadelphia a woman with a broken leg and multiple fractures delays hospital care to ensure her canary Pete is safe with a neighbor. After Sgt Souder intervenes, she hands over the bird and is taken to West Philadelphia Homeopathic Hospital for treatment.
Fragmentary 1917 notices reference bread, real estate transfers and warranty deeds including named individuals and parcels. reads as a damaged OCR summary with multiple dates, names, and amounts, ending with bakery references and odd phrases.
The last will and testament of the late John Tharnish filed for probate, dated June 29 1908, witnessed by J S Goas and J W Emmert. It directs payment of all debts and a $5 bequest to Tharnish’s son, with remainder of property to be distributed. Judge Rockafellow presides over the probate hearing.
A will leaves a life interest to the wife Mery Tharnish with the property passing to daughter Mrs. Clara Brown on the wife’s death. The paper notes the will’s probate delay after the family initially avoided court proceedings and later chose to proceed. It mentions contemporaneous ads for office paper and typewriter supplies.
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