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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1925
Page
1
A brief notice lists foreign advertising representatives E M Burke Inc in Chicago and Brokawich in New York City. It mentions a subscription delivery option for evening telegraph readers and provides contact details for Atlantic subscribers.
The News Telegraph announces a new advert rate of 42 cents an inch for business messages and 76 to 100 a hundred for circulation. It claims the page rate is cheaper than any other paper, with a minimum 24 cent ad and delivery by post. The paper touts vast readership, noting about 5.5 thousand subscribers and wide circulation reaching twenty thousand people in many homes.
A fragmented report describes strange lights observed in Washington's western sky, deemed searchlights by an astronomer. Locals, including residents near Warrenton, report nightly activity thought to threaten the capital, while observers debate the true nature of the lights.
Maj. Gen. Harbord and leaders including H W Rice Jr and Charles Dawes convene with academics to discuss industrial progress and social aims. Speakers urge aligning science, work, and agriculture to raise living standards while addressing labor, energy, and raw material constraints, stressing national self-sufficiency in steel and food.
A humorous quip filled with wordplay and social commentary about trading in the old for the new, money, and generosity. It references Thanksgiving traditions and the notion that nothing is free, noting the satirical tone of a daily column from 1925.
The War Department considers flying the national flag daily in cemeteries nationwide. The proposal urges local cemetery managers to install flags and poles, allowing flag display from sunrise to sunset each day as a tribute to fallen service members. Existing grave markers would be preserved and used again each Memorial Day.
Boone Ia. the first all woman jury to sit in Boone county court today heard evidence bearing upon the ownership of two horses.
Washington reports the Navy is without a major international airplane record for the first time in years. Lieutenant Jimmy Doolittle of the Army won the Jacques Schneider Cup race in Baltimore, ending the Navy’s hopes. The year favored the Army with the Schneider Cup and the Pulitzer Race at Mitchell Field.
A Wooster Record report notes a conflict between property considerations and human safety as a damaged windshield magnifies hazards for pedestrians and raises concerns over urban impact and legal liability.
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