30 Jun 1939
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1939
Page
1
The Atlantic News Telegraph lists publication details and rates and reminds subscribers to call 685 M before 7 PM if not receiving the paper. It also instructs readers to notify the office for address changes or delivery notices rather than informing the carrier.
The United States considers reassigning the Pacific fleet to Pearl Harbor to signal resolve to Japan while continuing diplomatic notes with Tokyo. The plan aims for subtle, phased movements to deter aggression and bolster British positions in Asia.
The piece argues that American labor unions arose to aid workers but modern leadership harms public opinion. It laments a costly, ongoing struggle for industry profits and internal leadership failures, claiming unions undermine themselves by clashing with their members and the broader public.
The article notes changed Chinese attitudes toward treaty ports and foreign concessions as Japan advances in China. It cites the 1842 postwar setup of five ports Canton Ningpo Shanghai Foochow and later expanded concessions, with about 50,000 foreigners in Hankow Tientsin Amoy Canton and Shanghai controlling roughly half of China’s foreign trade.
The piece lauds newly painted houses in Atlantic as a factor in strengthening Iowa city reputation. It critiques dictatorship in Danzig, notes Bermuda suffrage limits, and argues democracy grants all adults a voice, regardless of status.
A verse urging balance between work and play. It paints the busy bee denying overtime and warns against overwork turning to self harm when greed reduces the hive to ruin. The poem promotes enjoying life while pursuing useful deeds.
A list of ten knowledge prompts covers state nicknames shipboard lowering tackle, minister nominee, Japanese religion, New Zealand capital, Fulton’s Clermont trial, mystery pronunciation, retired U.S. general testimony, Caesar Cleopatra marriage, and New York governor terms.
The note critiques a classroom habit of saying deprivation aloud and urges using the word privation instead. It emphasizes precise language and expressions for discussing poverty effects without sensational phrasing.
Albert Blades aged 30 died from a fractured skull when a wall prop he was removing from a farm building fell on him. The accident occurred at the Robertson farm, razed for expansion of Des Moines airport.
Reflections mix personal history with wartime longing and New York imagery. The writer recalls Myra McHenry of Wichita, her activism with Carry Nation, and her 61st birthday, then shifts to midtown New York traffic and a note on Sixth Avenue plans. The piece blends past figures with urban change and a wartime sensibility.
The text notes plans for major redevelopment along a city avenue with Wanamaker considering buying the Hippodrome block and building a vast department store. It suggests a shift of retail power toward Sixth Avenue and A Street, reshaping the business district like Paris Champs Elysees.
A column reviews Shaw's Pygmalion with Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller as a highlight. It also comments on Roosevelt's power limits, local improvements, Paychek’s boxing rise, highway safety slogans, congressional sessions, baseball pennants, and Garner’s vice presidential bids in a broad late 1930s civic tone.
In Ames Iowa entomologist H D Tate reports chinch bugs push into southern Iowa wheat and barley fields with 10 acre corn tracts damaged. He urges farmers to set creosote paper fences and trapping holes to create no bug land before migration intensifies. County agents coordinate creosote supply and fence construction with state aid.
A partial line hints at the early stage of a correspondence in Anglo Seen poetry. The fragment suggests a beginning tone without revealing the ending.
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