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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1931
Page
1
An amused diary fragment recounts a chaotic New York dinner with varied guests from Chicago and Boston. The narrator, an incurable talker, blurts jokes about vitamins, fashion, and a taste for bear rugs while dodging insults and pratfalls.
A column presents banana nutrition praising the fruit as a premier carbohydrate, notes its sanitary skin, and urges full ripeness. It lists several banana based dishes from Banana Pie to Banana Fritters and includes a short historical note on 1931 readings by George Matthew Adams Service.
Atlantic readers receive notice about evening delivery options for The News Telegraph and changes in delivery. Instructions include calling 45 M before 7 pm for missed papers and notifying the office for address changes or discontinuations. The item lists offices, rates, and affiliations with press associations.
The president addressed the Republican Editorial association of Indianapolis praising sound economic principles over radical schemes. He contrasted a planned future with personal initiative, urging protection of individual rights, cooperation, and national unity to expand housing, industry, power, parks, schools, and prosperity for 20 million people.
A fragmented excerpt urges confidence in business agencies and national resources. It calls for full faith in divine guidance to turn current difficulties into greater prosperity, emphasizing intellectual and spiritual strengths and unity in a pivotal national moment.
Capone, Chicago underworld head, pleads guilty to long time tax evasion and violation of the federal prohibition law. The move follows relentless government pressure, with readers shown the broader view that federal power will prevail over gangster networks.
A cautious editorial questions a new US prohibition enforcement push to begin July 2 with about 50 agents. It notes past drives yielded little law enforcement impact and warns skeptical Americans to await tangible outcomes before judgment. The piece argues enforcement would be costly and limited to high-profile targets.
The education commissioner urges Lafayette College graduates to meet the standard of the educated man by disciplined self control. He warns that modern youth chase pleasures, neglect duties, and risk character, opportunity, and happiness as wealth and status temptations rise.
A West Central Iowa paper notes the Amana society has decided to discontinue its long running cooperative system and adopt a new form of governance. The piece frames the shift as a major reorientation from communal socialism toward individual thrift and enterprise, citing religious roots and criticisms of communism. It argues socialism cannot succeed and calls for reformist voices to avert a national slide toward socialistic policy.
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A scanned fragment shows a list of ten trivia questions and garbled text. Questions cover geography, history, language, and culture, including capitals, location of the Alps, US presidents, Rome, population rankings, Olympic timing, wedding anniversaries, chemistry, a Mexican town near Brownsville, and a distance from Lincoln.
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