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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1924
Page
1
Amid bitter intra party battles over unity and policy, factions clash over Catholic and Klan lines, with anti McAdon and Doheny oil controversy sparking mockery and jockeying for influence. Cash corn and wheat markets edge higher as prices shift amid uncertain conditions.
No. 2 white oats sold at 7 to 58 with a steady rain yesterday. Wheat, corn and oats futures show strength and December wheat above 1.20. Price gains over sixty days exceed transport costs from Gas County to Chicago, suggesting higher crop prices ahead. Dollar corn and higher wheat could yield profits locally, while past forecasts of gasoline and sugar shifts are criticized as politicized and unreliable.
A Roanoke Times editorial mocks Charles Dawes as a reactionary, predicting lively Senate sessions if he chairs and noting the do it now ethos clashes with Senate caution. It imagines sharp, bristling talk in the chamber and humorous rhetoric about Dawes and Maria.
Washington letter outlines Democratic strategies for a campaign slogan edge in 1932. Discussion centers on McAdoo rooster theme and Keep Cool slogans, with Roosevelt and Mack proposing lines. John W Davis and Jonathan M Davis are pitched as potential ticket. Underwood strength noted. Glass and Underwood debated. Ralston dismissed as slogan material.
A local democratic paper recounts a delegation led by Governor Bryan traveling by three Pullmans to New York with an extra diner. The piece recalls Bryan’s Chicago convention trip decades earlier, noting frugal attire and expenses paid by his editor's newspaper.
The text recalls a presidential candidate undertaking an extensive campaign with John W. Cutright and his typewriter, declining special trains or corporate favors. It notes the journey across the country and praises the candidate for traveling without gratuities, ending with a musing on remarks at a Chicago meeting and the governor’s reaction to the news.
The Nonpareil reports an interview in which William Gibbs McAdoo promotes economical railroad management to reduce freight rates for farmers. Critics argue his record as director general cost $1.5 billion over twenty six months and claim tax-funded deficits would rise with any rate cuts. They question how Dawes would respond to such rhetoric if McAdoo became the Democratic nominee.
A humorous 1924 verse reflects a narrator torn between pest control and respect for living creatures. He compares swatting flies to harming shy neighboring birds, pondering if insects have a right to exist while noting his noisy, animal-filled dwelling and the moral tension of his pest eradication.
A playful verse gallery mocks a swatter’s sway over endless flies. The speaker, styled as judge and jury, declares a grand swatter in hand and vows to slay the pests daily as plans unfold with jaunty humor.
A string of quips and observations on summer profits, marriage, manners, smoking, crops, travel, and safety. It parodies social norms with humorous snippets about romance age rules, female cookery, road choices, and the absurdities of everyday life.
Foxes belong to the dug tamly and their claws are not adapted for climbing trees though they sometimes grip inclined trunks or limbs. A fox is not at home in a tree and does not seek safety by climbing when pursued.
Observers mark the 251st anniversary of Marquette and Joliet reaching the upper Mississippi. The 1673 voyage from McGregor to Keokuk is traced, with historians citing Bluff Park as a likely landing site and diaries lost when their canoe tipped.
The snowdrop plant, praised as the chaste symbol of spring, is traced to English cultivation by Benedictine monks who found its roots possessed nourishing properties and deserve cultivation near their watery habitats.
Two scholarships open to students of industrial chemistry and chemical engineering in Iowa will be awarded this summer by the Chemists club of New York, announced by the American Chemical Society. Preference given to young men who have added to high school work with further academic study in applied chemistry and chemical engineering.
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