05 May 1921
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1921
Page
1
The Atlantic newspaper lists advertising rates and staff, detailing carrier and mail subscription prices, monthly and yearly options, and international rates. It notes Associated Press service for news dispatches and local publication of material.
Atlantic subscribers who do not receive their newspapers in the evening may request delivery by calling before seven o'clock. Call Red 403 to arrange. This is not the Telegram telegraph number.
A county board deliberates on repairing a gear railway bridge rather than installing jet ones to stay within county income. The plan aims to curb expenditures while maintaining essential services and infrastructure.
A county board favors operating within current means, opposes issuing bonds for farm-related projects, and argues debt should be paid from revenue rather than new levies. The paper commends the board for aligning with taxpayer suggestions to reduce taxes and curb public expenditures.
The Nonpartisan League accuses Wall Street of waging a war on North Dakota bonds as farmers shift from traditional political restraints and attempt to sell the state’s securities, a struggle reflecting broader rural finance tensions.
North Dakota reports flood of land crops valued at 226 million dollars last year and yields hard wheat and flax amid high prices. Officials advertise bonds in Chicago to fund experiments, led by a Townley faction recently jailed for disloyalty. Capital remains cautious amid the political clash over the loan and its social aims.
Poet Walt Mason mocks aging and rising food costs, noting modest prices for staples like corned beef hash and garlic stew while pie prices soar. He quips that a single pie is cut into fourteen slices yet costs fifteen cents, provoking calls to the police over the unfair charge as a two dollar pie revenue is implied.
A fragmented verse laments profiteering that harms the poor. It contrasts widows and orphans’ tears with high prices for pie and chicken in olive oil. The speaker longs for relief and shared labor’s solace as society questions moral duty.
Notice to creditors in the District Court of the United States Southern District of Town Iowa. John H Marxen of Washington township Gass County was adjudicated bankrupt on May 4 1921. The first meeting of creditors is on May 4 1921 at 10 oclock A M in Council Bluffs Iowa to attend review claims appoint trustees examine the bankrupt and transact business before the referee Fremont Benjamin.
Financiers attribute the dominance of the United States in global trade to its status as the world's only creditor nation. They note imports are balanced by depreciation of other currencies, while precious metals flow in from all quarters. European powers led by Great Britain and France are highlighted as key sources of monetary pressure.
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