07 Mar 1939
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1939
Page
1
A brief OCR fragment shows numbers and monetary amounts such as 80e 1.28 92.80 8.00 4.00 2.25 1.25 50¢, without clear context or complete items. The text resembles a catalog or price table snippet, offering multiple prices and cents values in inconsistent formatting.
State officials warn nonpayment threatens 200 Iowa firms and up to 1600 jobs. Advocates urge selective collection to avoid closing firms and increasing unemployment benefits obligations.
The text argues that rather than condemning European dictatorships, U S residents in Minnesota confronts alleged local tyranny. It claims the Twin City Milk Producers association adopted resolutions asserting rights to produce and market freely, use public roads, security of person and property, enforcement of laws, incorporation of organizations, and fair wages.
The piece weighs possible Japanese efforts to establish an air base in Central America, cautioning against hasty fear while noting practical military limits and the distance from the United States. It argues such a base would have minimal wartime value and would be vulnerable to swift destruction.
Washington report reveals RFC loan of 5.6 million dollars to Lafayette Building corporation to erect a 12 story office on the McLean mansion site. Hackett and Clas linked to the project via Thompson Starrett. Jones’s RFC funds may yield about 1.1 million in rent profit.
The Rock Rapids Reporter notes most relief recipients lack work, while a few abuse relief. solving the relief problem is tied to America's future and urges immediate elimination of fraud and misallocation.
The essay laments continued cobblestone paving in Manhattan including Broadway and near Holland tunnel. It notes signage spellings and places such as Centre and Rockefellre Centre. It highlights Mrs. Worthington of Cape Cod who turned nets into fashion, creating a NYC wholesale and showroom business and trendy fishnet garments.
A tongue in cheek note mocks fashion misuse and diction in 1939 era dialogue. It contrasts quirky phrases with a cartoonish line about selling a husband’s fish scales for gowns and includes a copyright note and a language tip.
The poem critiques poverty while exposing a complacent town. It contrasts wealthy appearances with hidden hardship and notes the speaker’s vow to help the needy, calling for awareness of cold, hungry families and the ostentatious comfort surrounding them.
Shenandoah Iowa March 7 A delegation from the Shenandoah Chamber of Commerce traveled to the Fred Springs farm near Mound City Missouri for the spudding in of the first test well in the new oil boom area stretching across southern Iowa. The land is leased by J H Everit of Oklahoma and E F Mills of Forteacue Missouri holds the drilling contract.
The Times-Republican notes officials insist there will be no tax increases while critiquing continued spending. The piece argues trust lies in reducing current taxes rather than pursuing new levies and halting pump priming.
A Murphysboro Illinois Independent item via Anamosa Iowa compiles social service investigator notes on families. Descriptions cover illness unemployment housing, rent arrears, boarders, illegitimate separations, alimony, and hopes for help, with varied prospects and moral judgments.
Des Moines Iowa March 54 head of cattle sold at the Iowa Shorthorn Breeders annual fairgrounds sale. Sun A Bar farm Grain Valley Missouri paid top price of 500 dollars for a bull from Will A Davis & Sons Oak Law. University of Minnesota bought a McCone Brothers Manilla cow for 180 dollars, also paying 450 dollars for a bull from McCone Brothers.
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