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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1940
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR notes describe Pes Meeves and Rod Pheks in Delaware or Philadelphia politics with references to a lieutenant governor and party figures. The garbled text hints at a crowd gathering and ongoing official duties after an election, with unclear regional ties.
Orrin H. Blakeslee 86 died Sunday in Fort Collins Colorado from heart complications and dropsy after 14 months of poor health. Born in Linn County Ta he moved to Cass County as a boy and lived here until 1909 then relocated to Colorado. Surviving are his widow Isabel Mitchell a son Claude and daughter Helen two brothers and two sisters with one son and two daughters deceased.
Local items note a stag at Golf and Country club announced by pro Jim Brown, a new job for C. J. Neibey Jr. with Young Furniture, a visit by Howard Darrow and family to Nelsons near Lyman, and the Atlantic Rotary fried chicken picnic at Harry Hopley farm. J. J. Moore takes a vacation with substitute Arthur Erickson.
Misses Cleone and Adah Spies of Massena present their Atlantic and Red Oak pupils in a song and dance recital Friday evening in the city hall auditorium. A wide variety of entertainment includes dances songs comedy and acrobatic numbers. Cleone and Adah are assisted by other members of the Seven Spies Sisters revue.
Robert Montgomery, the back from France war hero who drove an ambulance near the front, speaks with newsmen at Port Washington New York after returning to the United States by clipper plane.
President Roosevelt's effort to supply Britain with American war matériel faces hurdles from existing law and new legislation. The latest obstacle emerged when it was found a World War I era law blocked a transfer of 20 high speed motor torpedo boats to London, illustrating legal and policy constraints on aid.
Honolulu June 24. Rumors say the entire United States fleet in Hawaiian waters is secretly departing for a distant base. Battleships lead the exodus, flanked by destroyers cruisers plane carriers and subs, fully provisioned for a long voyage possibly toward Pacific coast bases.
The article notes patrols on both sides of the Panama Canal at Balboa harbor and Cristobal bay to guard the waterway and respond quickly to English and French possessions. It emphasizes readiness to enforce the administration's order and protect life, urging pedestrians to heed traffic rights and slow down.
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