The Trojans Win Through Team Play at Atlantic
The 1939 Atlantic Trojans football team completed a near perfect season under coach Russell Ruff. Despite being undersized and lacking a standout star, the squad won all but one game through cohesive teamwork and sacrifice. The article lauds good citizenship and collective effort.
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Iowa State University Impresses With Medical And Dental Schools
A visit to the University of Iowa at Iowa City highlights its impressive buildings and grounds. The medical school earns world fame for its work, and the dental school ranks among the best. The Iowa system, along with Ames and Cedar Falls campuses, elevates the state's intellectual standing.
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Iowa City
School of Medicine
Dental School
Ames
Cedar Falls
Iowa
Remember and Resist: A Plea for Peace in Europe
The speaker recalls eight million war dead and fifteen million civilians who died from starvation and disease in the last war. He argues to keep the nation out of the current European conflict to avoid a new orgy of death and to renew resolve for peace.
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Maes
Europe
Editorial Briefs on Neutrality and Iowa Notre Dame Game
The piece notes mounting public pressure over a proposed change in ship registry that could threaten strict neutrality rules. It also covers Iowa’s football win versus Notre Dame, highlighting hopes to lift red ink for the university’s athletic department as crowds grow and tickets sell at 2.20 dollars.
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Iowa
Notre Dame
Iowa City
Navy bungling and new destroyers raise center of gravity
Publication notes the Roosevelts big navy program encountered faults in 28 destroyers. Rivets defect and wrong weight distribution left 20 vessels top heavy, prompting weight additions and naval housecleaning. Edison reassigned DuBose and Bowen to separate Maryland labs to test models and research.
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White Horse
Hugh Wilson
FDR
Drew Pearson
Robert S. Allen
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U. S
Navy Department
Annapolis
Bureaus of Engineering and Ordnance
Bureau of Construction and Repair
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Cox
William G. DuBose
Naval Construction
Harold G. Bowen
Naval Engineering
DuBose
Admiral DuBose
Naval Experimental Basin
Maryland
Admiral Bowen
Naval Research Laboratory
Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason
When luck is against you and all seems dark do not falter or blame others for your faults. Brace up and strive, for fortune tests us and tears prove water not help. If we face affliction with courage fortune may guide us to better prospects.
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Fortune
Sun Moon Earth Capitals Rule In Astronomy
A note explains that the words sun moon and earth are not capitalized unless part of a proper noun. It lists the nine planets in order from the Sun Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune and Pluto.
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Moon
Earth
Mercury
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
Kansas Ash Supply Sparks Unusual State Claim
A quizty note claims Kansas produced more volcanic ash than any state or territory, though no volcano exists there. It says the ash is used for securing soaps, tooth powder, and abrasives, highlighting an odd industry claim.
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Kansas
Theatre society diary from The Players in Baltimore
A diary filled with theater figures visiting Baltimore. Dennis O’Brien and Captain O’Brien discuss rehearsals while Otis Skinner praises his daughter Cornelia's touring. Otis Skinner recalls Booth era, and John Mulholland discusses Leipzig’s tricks. Adrienne Morrison Pinker’s Lyme home attached in a suit, and Adrienne’s family ties to the Bennetts and Lewis Morrison surface. Peter Boggs shares dog hunting anecdotes in New England.
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Booth
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Hollywood
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Nate Leipzig
Leipzig
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Grand Opera House
Mary Pickford
Kismet
Maude Adams
Adrienne Morrison Pinker
Lyme
Conn
Road
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Faust
Adrienne Morrison
Richard Bennett
Mabel Morrison
Constance
Joan Bennett
Bennetts
Park Hill
Bennett
Pinker
Eric Pinker
Atlantic
Rinker
Gertrude Friedberg
Peter Boggs
Kidd
Boggs
Daily Knowledge Test Quiz In Old Newspaper Style
A practice page asks ten trivia questions asking for city known as Washington of South America track record holder one mile DAR initials meaning ton conversion death of Knute Rockne Mt McKinley location front of a boat Cambria name meaning of Britain ancient proper name pronunciation of ancestor and the fourth gospel of the New Testament.
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South America
Mt. McKinley National
Alaska
Arizona
Wyoming
Great Britain
Cambria
Iowa road system records depreciation of seven million
Des Moines Iowa November 13 The Iowa primary road system depreciated 7 681 626 during the year ending Nov 1 according to State Auditor C B Akers The depreciation used rates from the highway planning survey with graveling and bituminous paving at 20 percent and grading at 2 percent Paving at 8 5 percent Total highway commission redrapt? Read. Expenditures and revenues for the year shown with motor vehicle licenses gasoline taxes and federal aid forming the principal sources.
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Des Moines
I. N
C. B. Akers
Highway Commission
State Liquor Store Saw Monthly Sales Rise in October
A state liquor control commission report shows sales climbed from 6 083.64 to 6 669.28 in October. Anita and Avoce also posted rising figures, while Gris wold and Wal entries show continued activity.
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State Liquor Control Commission
Anita
Griswold
Wal
State sales totals rise across towns noted
In the figures presented, nut sales and amounts for Villisca and Audubon show increases. Overall statewide sales climbed from 942,539.97 to 1,029,014.24, with higher totals in several listed municipalities.
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Audubon
Aeronautical production soars under military order surge
Wes H. Jouett, president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Lakenese, reports aviation output climbs to over 5,000 planes yearly with a monthly rate near 1,250. He notes this far exceeds last year’s 8,676 planes and nearly equals 1988’s annual total, highlighting wartime demand and government orders.
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Ameriyear
Fortill
Wes H. Jouett
Aeronautical Chamber of
Jury convicts men in Baton Rouge bank fraud and forgeries
In Ree Rouge Louisiana Judge Holewade sentences Dr Smith and Dr Brith after they pleaded to fraudulently obtaining 100000 from City National Bank of Baton Rouge and forging signatures on a $1000 bond. The case ties to alleged wheat market speculation.
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Ree Rouge
No. 1 Salesman United States tops world exports
United States is ranked as the top exporter in foreign trade statistics. Over a million workers in the industrial population are said to depend on export trade for their livelihoods.
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United States
U. S
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