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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1925
Page
1
Rates listed for business office telephone subscriptions by carrier and mail options. One month costs 50 cents, six months 2.75, and one year 4.00 by mail in the U S. Canada rates: one year 6.00. Additional six months 2.05 and three months 1.00 by mail.
A Des Moines gathering of farmer organizations discussed uniting to address farming conditions and capital needs. Leaders stressed creating a permanent, nationwide farm alliance to improve profits and counteract past congressional blockages.
The piece critiques farm organizations plan to reform farming finance and alliances. It warns about political manipulation by opponents and calls for careful scrutiny of proposals to ensure farmers survive alongside towns and families. It emphasizes the need to unite farmers with prudent leadership.
A jumbled OCR paragraph lists names and activities from a local page, mentioning people like Shee, LK She, and Skitha alongside venues, lanes, and possible obits. It hints at editorial notes about community figures, events, and a public notices section with fragmented phrases and scattered references.
Editorial discusses the burden of roadside and public signs under new state law. It argues signs may be costly yet helpful to advertisers, but many are unreadable to passing drivers. The piece laments clutter and the public’s inability to read while in motion, calling for clearer, purposeful signage and noting the perception of wasted ad spending.
Charles P. Stewart reports Coolidge’s health remains strong after moving to the White House and jokes about the risks of automobile accidents. The piece notes Dawes cannot sway Senate rules and hints at political struggle over Cannonism and Speaker Longworth’s power. It cites a broad coalition of Democrats and progressive Republicans.
A jumble of garbled phrases reports robber captures in Mesona and crimes in Rockwell City Iowa. References to Coolidge Dawes and a Hawaii bathing scene appear amid misread names and broken sentences. The text is largely unreadable but notes shootings, a grocery store break in, and a tobacco company fire.
Poem fragment by RIPPI INGS RHYMES and WALT MASON imitating a labor scene. A narrator toils for J. Gladstone Wiggins washing a cow from dawn to dusk. Wiggins scowls calls the narrator sinful and offers fifty cents for a day’s work, while the cow endures rough handling.
A speaker vents at landowners and employers, claiming denial of work and fair wages. He labels others as hypocritical and notes chronic unemployment while seeking steady employment and acknowledgment, reflecting social tensions in rural labor markets in 1925.
Summary of Supreme Court notes including First National Bank of Armstrong vs Himer C. Smith on promissory notes from Kossuth county. Reversed and remanded. Several other cases listed with appellants including replevin, fraud in land sales, quiet title actions, and special assessments across Marshall Greeneva Linn Story Wapello and Dubuque counties. Justices Vermillion Albert Farville and others cited.
Lear Lare May 15 fishermen gather at Clear Lake for the opening firing season to Smerrow. All 58 slips at White Pier will be taken tonight as fishermen plan to be ready one minute after midnight. Local merchants offer prizes for the first big catch of the day. Clinton welcomes Cedar Rapids visitors May 26 with a 200-member chamber contingent arriving by special train.
Reversed per curiam decisions on foreclosures and tax actions across Allamakee Marshall and Lyon counties. Appellants include Gollins Nagel Hemmings and Lander estate cases. Several actions affirmed by Justices De Graff Vermillion Arthur and others.
Transfer records show John W Reed and wf convey property at 1023 and n2 it 22 bik 20 Cumberland to Arthur W Anderson for 2000. C P Shearer and wf with GC B Q H R transfer to Adeline E White a strip 200 ft wide along a 40 foot wide right of way valued at 1.25.
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