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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1920
Page
1
The notice lists subscription prices by carrier and mail options including one month six months one year and international rates. It notes membership in the Associated Press and that AP dispatches are exclusive in republication.
The statement emphasizes that altering the government requires a majority. It highlights the political process as dependent on broad support rather than unilateral action.
Atlantic subscribers to the News Telegraph who do not receive their papers in the evening may have a same delivered by calling before seven o clock. Telephone Red 403. This is not the number of the News Telegraph.
The royal ukase requires the San Francisco platform to endorse the covenant of the League of Nations. President Wilson has urged this, amid news that McAdoo will not run, fueling belief Wilson may seek the nomination. Developments at the convention will test aligning platform goals with the president’s wishes.
The piece argues that if President Wilson seeks a third term the Democrats should nominate Gerard at San Francisco. It asserts Gerard would run squarely against Wilson's internationalism, emphasize America first policies, and appeal to voters with a clear record. It cautions Democrats may miss the opportunity.
The Prospect reports Congressman W R Green saying the government will need four billion dollars yearly for the next federal years with no significant tax cuts in sight. Interest on war loans runs about one billion a year, keeping taxes high and prices unlikely to return to prewar levels for the current generation.
A Missouri congressman’s reply to a constituent letter, published in the Congressional Record, accuses the current Administration of wasteful wartime spending. The piece cites official records and witnesses’ testimony to portray pervasive incompetence and extraordinary expenditures, echoing sentiments likened to an artful fraud.
The piece details vast military procurements and waste, citing the War Departments spending on artillery, aviation, leather gear, branding irons, fireless cookers, and motor vehicles. It contrasts huge costs with postwar sales to allies and profiteering, arguing a systemic misallocation of resources and a costly, wasteful wartime economy. The report also notes political changes in Germany, mentioning Thuringia’s unification of several principalities into one state.
A Fort Dodge reader recalls suffering from headaches cramps and fatigue and credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relief after sixteen bottles. The letter urges other women with similar troubles to seek health guidance and notes that responses from the Lady’s Pinkham Medicine Co. are confidential and answered by women.
At the United States junior chamber of commerce annual convention in St Louis on June 21 the resolution asks Congress to provide 500 million dollars for inland waterway improvements over five years with annual expenditures of 100 million dollars.
Police hunt four men after Mea Roy Moss was shot dead in a Rockford auto ambush. Witnesses say assailants wore civilian clothes and army shirts, one tied to a prison escapee from Camp Grant. A motor chase followed as investigators link the incident to a broader security alert and a death threat case. Separately, an Iowa probate notice appoints executors for W. M. Lloyd estate in Cass County with standard claim procedures.
Poetically derides reckless drivers as a road hog who endangers lives. The narrator imagines the hog’s habits, mocks rude behavior, and foresakes polite society, predicting fines, jail terms, and possible wrecks as consequences of driving recklessly on public ways.
An advertisement touts a belief that certain women can stay young by using a so called beauty tonic. It markets vegetable tablets and liquid forms sold by Drs Tiersg’a Tuvalidat in Buffalo offering a 100 unit trial package, claiming health benefits and anti aging effects.
Fifty five years back the Atlantic post office project saw bids opened in Washington with Hy A Paina of Alsbert Le a leading at 26 000 dollars. J M Carlson a former Elk Horn resident will serve as cashier at Maine Savings Bank. Herman Krohn hosts a small card gathering and H E Matt marries Bessie E Vail at 1108 Poplar Street in their future home.
In Grand Junction June 12 121 Rev Joseph Nix and Rev Barnett clashed after a slur about a pastor. Barnett knocked Nix down prompting a general fight. Nix, a former army chaplain, defended the insult as unresolved. Boy Scouts alert follows.
A curious claim suggests wealthy French women use extra-dry champagne as a shampoo. The idea is to produce reddish brown hair with thick golden highlights, though the text is fragmented and unclear.
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