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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1926
Page
1
The News Telegraph urges readers to support local prosperity and civic effort. It urges awake community action, laments inactivity, and praises the American Legion for citizenship, patriotism, and service while stressing loyalty to Atlantic and its future.
ABHINGTON A Minnesota column contrasts Henrik Shipstead and Thomas D Schall as two strikingly different Republicans elected to the U S Senate despite shared state roots. Schall wins over Magnus Johnson after a contentious contest and delivers an aggressive debut speech while Shipstead remains the senior figure in a rival style. The piece notes harsh language from Shipstead toward contest instigators and casts the political clash as a clash of character and tactics.
Legion reports a drive for new members last week added nearly thirty more members than all previous records. The post is hailed as service men’s best bet with progress shown, praising its work for World War veterans and stressing its unique usefulness and opportunity.
The Cass County Sunday School association stages its annual convention in Atlantic with about a thousand Sunday school workers expected by evening. Delegates travel from across the county to learn and teach good citizenship and spiritual values, emphasizing the nation’s need for religious life to combat Bolshevik influence and promote high citizenship standards.
The note urges presenting a flag to show welcome to visitors. It encourages signaling gladness that guests are present and acknowledges a tradition of hospitality.
The deaths of veterans A. Crisler and Alexander Wallace mark the thinning ranks of those who served in the Union cause. The article reflects on their valor and sacrifice, noting time's toll and the enduring influence of their country.
A nostalgic verse by Walt Mason laments the old buggy resting in a shed its iron tires rusty wood decayed and its memories of days with Sarah Jane. The speaker recalls drives along dusty lanes and hazel dell when youth and love bloomed and vows not to part with the relic despite modern times.
The text records a jumble of anecdotes from different places. A drunken man struggles with campaign funds, a big fish may have saved a boater in Rhitelander, students use Grant's Tomb as a handball court, an actor is robbed in Los Angeles, and a divorce rumor surfaces in Pittsburgh.
Real estate transfers list several parcels. Frederick A. Lilienthal and Augusta Lilienthal receive w est 90 feet of northwest quadrant block IC and miscellaneous lots along Atlantic Avenue. Gertrude I Turner to Harvey H Turner records mortgage and dated entries in block 12 Whitney add-Anita 10.
In Babson Park Massachusetts on June 28 1926 Roger W Babson discusses growing public resentment toward local taxes and municipal bonds. He explains that bond issues increase tax rates immediately through interest and sinking fund payments and warns that non property holders feel the impact only when rents rise. He notes a shift in sentiment as road bonds drive new expenditures and cites Texas road bond decisions dampening enthusiasm for new issues. He also remarks on changes in federal tax law reducing surtax and freeing capital for taxable bonds.
The excerpt argues there is no real difference between thrift and spending, only purpose. Spending shifts between channels as industries complain yet overall business remains healthy, with the Babson chart showing about 1 percent above normal. A Paris bee sting incident on an auto driver is noted but causes no serious wreck.
Richard Thorne and Philip Elliott, prominent New York Broadway figures, prepared to fight extradition to New York where they are under indictment in connection with an alleged attack on actress Violet Anderson. Counsel Josaph Cohan said the defense will argue the offense is non-extraditable in law. A note mentions a Sun Dial and Telescope addition to a residence rounds.
The annual synod meeting of the Presbyterian church is held at Ames this week with RB 8 Campbell among local presbytery delegates. Mrs Campbell accompanies Campbell in their car to Ames. Rev William Mack will depart this afternoon for the meeting with Mrs Mack and Bobby, stopping in Des Moines to visit Mrs Jack McGovern and Mr Stuart Mebutllin.
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