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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1940
Page
6
Uneven fragments show a state leader and Dallas officials debating development, with names like Lucas and Scott linked to a Cedar area project. The brief hints at progress, funding, and timelines for a proposed renewal effort.
Linda faces a looming custody fight as the powerful Morton family plots to take her child. Janice seeks help from attorney Jack Blaine who reveals he sides with the opposing faction, forcing Janice to choose between love and duty. Mr Avon is mentioned as a potential helper for Linda.
Kathleen Norris steps down as president pro tem of the National Legion of Mothers of America citing the need for greater freedom from professional obligations as the group grows rapidly. Anita Knowlton and Coach Fred Boren are noted as attending Drake University summer school activities in Des Moines.
Martin denounces Democrats as harboring fifth columnists and warns that free government could be destroyed by economic betrayal as he blasts the New Deal and Roosevelt, claiming seven years of blundering, empty treasury, rising taxes, and failed policies. He urges a return to sanity and peace.
A Cass County Republican gathering names a Griswold pastor as the keynote speaker. The list includes numerous local residents across Pleasant Pymosa Union and Victoria precincts with names such as Roy Scott Walter Rousseau Jack Rogers Elmer Spieker and Paul Dreager among others. The report continues from Page One detailing attendees and precincts in the party lineup.
The Glad Girls of Grove met at Miss Viola Joyce's home and Pleasant Girls met at Elizabeth Brown's home with Irene Smith as a guest. Members discussed demonstration ideas by roll call and voted to present a program at a farm bureau meeting in July. Ardis Buroughs and Betty Johnson were named to the demonstration team. Ardis spoke about her trip to the Ames convention and a lunch followed.
Brayton Iowa residents greet visitors from Colfax Washington Detroit and Omaha. Clarence Knudsen and family arrive to visit Theo Ordway and Lena Krogskaw while Harry Miller and family of Detroit visit Grace Smith. Arnold Nelson and daughter from Omaha stop by to see their mothers.
A compact proverb notes that rushing headlong leads to a hasty retreat with a fall. It cautions about bold action without measured steps and suggests patience and careful planning as safer responses.
Des Moines reports two men robbed an Altoona filling station yesterday taking 25 dollars from owner Roy Davis. Davis could not describe the thieves but suspects they may be Iowa penitentiary escapees from Fort Madison last Saturday. Mill Worker Killed in Estherville
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