30 Nov 1940
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1940
Page
1
The Atlantic News Telegraph lists subscription options with prices for one year six months and three months and notes delivery by carrier. It details reader notices about changes to rates and service and provides contact information for the newspaper.
Sidney Hillman emerges as a pragmatic labor leader who preserves unity within the CIO during internal strife. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers, under his guidance, tout a 35 hour base week and a history of cooperation with industry, including banking and housing projects for members.
The article appears garbled with fragmented phrases and stray letters. Readable items reference business, tariffs, and Atlantic trade terms but lack coherent context or names. No clear events, dates, or entities emerge to summarize.
A garbled editorial fragment discusses parking rules on Pephur Street and wartime sentiments. It mentions Italian regiments, deaths, and fruitless efforts to calm public sensibilities while referencing food shortages and societal tensions amid ongoing conflict.
A local service company will begin seven miles of rural power line construction in Cameron township this year. The project, described in terse terms, marks a rural electrification effort with anticipated progress and early milestones.
A fragmented quiz asking ten items about elections poetry war islands presidents telescopes metals and birthplace. It prompts page seven for answers and mixes names events and places with multiple choice style prompts.
A reader recalls competing pronunciations of urb and hurh from Webster and notes, then shares a long letter from San Bernardino about a dog shot by a cowardly neighbor. The piece reflects on cruelty to animals, stray anecdotes from California to Indiana, and a nostalgic memory of old-time dry goods stores with their distinctive scent.
Gem salt is a term used for rock salt with the scientific name salgem. It is applied particularly to the purest form of rock salt.
Lookin Around recalls a 1915 Shenandoah high defeat coached by a current member and notes on local Christmas decorations at Joe Beener’s Elm Street window. Genealogical items cover a dog at C E Malone’s new home, toy drives, Marcia Chinitz’s soil hobby, and a Brooklyn Bridge gag for Billy Hemphill at a social gathering.
Des Moines 22 year old James Ball was sentenced by U S District Judge Charles Dewey to a year and a day in prison for draft evasion. Ball’s lawyers argued he was a conscientious objector as a member of the Friends Society. The marshal’s office awaited guidance from Washington before moving Ball to a federal penitentiary.
A compact public safety note urging caution on the roads. It emphasizes readiness for unforeseen hazards and encourages responsible driving to prevent accidents and injuries.
A column from Washington reflects on the death of Walter Budd of the Anita Tribune and notes ongoing construction for Camp Meade. It mentions figures like Congressman Ben Jensen, Secretary Jack Watson, and Willkie versus Roosevelt election analysis, plus a Thanksgiving message urging gratitude for health and friendship.
The piece opens with Edgar A. Guest poetry about how people judge us by our acts and words at their door. It follows with a local note from Audubon Iowa about the Chamber of Commerce sponsoring a Christmas food basket distribution for needy families led by relief director Miss Martha Henderson and a committee including Revs William Melville C E Cooley Louis Akin and Paul E Parker.
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