19 Sep 1939
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1939
Page
1
Notice outlines subscription rates for Atlantic and surrounding counties, delivery options and contact numbers. Includes dawned delivery call to ensure evening papers, address changes, or discontinuations. Also lists staff and advertising information.
The piece argues that lifting the arms embargo invites a cash and carry system with belligerents. It warns that foreign-ship trade would risk merchant ships and insurers, pulling the United States toward war. The author urges staying out of European conflict to protect young lives.
The article lists fifty common issues parents face with children aged six to twelve, from general disobedience and picky eating to making friends and handling devices and television. It notes many more challenges arise with younger or older kids and urges parents to take such problems in stride.
A local conversation with Congressman Ben Jensen reveals his firm isolationist view and support for keeping the arms embargo. He plans to return to Washington to fight to retain the embargo and keep the United States out of Europe.
The piece condemns Hitler and Stalin for destroying Poland and predicts renewed European retreat to bomb shelters. It lauds Roosevelt for fighting profiteering, warns of businesspeople seeking to profit from crisis, and urges strong measures to curb blood money profits.
Washington prepares a strong protest to Germany over the sinking of the British liner Athenia with 1,347 aboard, arguing it violates international law more than the Lusitania. Hull and aides weigh affidavits as four reasons frame the case, including lack of contraband, departure of Americans, no prior warning, and a treaty breach.
Critics label McNutt a menace as they expose favoritism and incompetence at the Social Security Board. The piece details the failed decentralization of 40 million old age records, the rise of John J. Corson, and a power trio led by Corson Altmeyer and Powell. It notes McNutt’s effort to recheck John Doe cards before year’s end.
The poem reflects on the postman who delivers joys and sorrows alike, carrying letters that spark hope, love, weddings, and memories. It weighs the mail carrier’s quiet influence on village life through gifts, rejections, greetings, and grief.
A brief note on common mistakes in placing quotation marks with commas and periods. It explains the general convention for English punctuation around quotation marks and highlights typical error patterns.
An eighteen man crew threshing oats gathered 4626 bushels in a single day in Calhoun County drawing praise from local farmers and indicating a high productivity pace for regional threshing crews.
A New Bedford style bar on Madison Avenue recreates whaling days with artificial seas, portholes, and a wind machine. Raymond Gram Swing, famed war correspondent, is noted for his early 1940s war broadcasting and personal history, including name change to Gram. The piece critiques film censorship and laments Broadway crime pictures while recounting the slow dismantling of Elevator A on Manhattan’s West Side after a massive fire and safety concerns.
The page lists ten questions testing general knowledge from family relations to geography time zones and science. Topics include kinship, U S territories, sports figures, fluid dynamics, amendments, time conversions, Florida islands, pronunciation, polar exploration, and spectroscopy.
Six infantile paralysis cases reported to the Iowa health department from Winterset in the past week one fatal. Robert D. Cummings 17 died at University Hospital Iowa City. Other serious patients include Robert Harrell 17 Des Moines and Gene Gittings 13 Iowa Methodist Hospital Des Moines. Fourteen cases have been reported in Iowa this month with a September expectation of 19. A Winterset outbreak considered not yet epidemic. schools not closed. Charles Boone 31 of Woodbine in iron lung at Jennie Edmundson Hospital described as fair.
The 18 largest football stadiums with an estimated capacity of 1,500,000 would be enough to seat all the owners of chain store stocks and bonds in the country.
Burdette Roland surprises crowds with a foot long cigar on Friday. Myrtle Gladson of Atlantic letters cheer the sick and inspire Frederick Snite from Chicago after his Lourdes trip. Teddy the firehouse mascot guards tortoise pals, tragedy strikes when the replacement dies. Editor notes call it a tall tale, yet promises Atlantic High and regional teams previews.
Adair Iowa special report notes that business houses closed yesterday afternoon for the funeral services of A J Eggen a local lumberman and longtime civic figure who died Friday night He had been prominent in civic affairs since moving to Adair thirty five years ago
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