25 Sep 1939
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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1939
Page
1
The article lists advertising and subscription rates for Atlantic and Iowa regions, with various mail and carrier options and prices. It provides a delivery notice urging subscribers to call 7 pm to adjust delivery and distinguishes it from a different newspaper's number.
A critical editorial warns that crushing Hitlerism without a concrete postwar plan could breed worse regimes. It argues for constructive aims, a clear European future, and avoiding war unless a viable salvaging program exists for defeated nations and their peoples.
The piece comments on Nazi leaders and personal bank reserves, urges American neutrality via the American Legion at its Chicago convention, condemns war while noting public intrigue. It also notes renewed interest in a northwest sewage plant and a growing frenzy for 1940 automobile models with new engines, bodies, and gadgets.
Intelligence dispatches report a secret German device, Altea, to dull submarine motor noise that once alerted British detectors. The Courageous was sunk with no warning, highlighting detector failures and fear of a new undersea threat. Eddie Cantor clashes with Maury Maverick over free speech and communist talks in San Antonio. Lord Lothian says Italy will stay neutral, conflicting with Rome and Berlin dispatches hinting Mussolini may join the Nazis.
In a global chess move, Hitler seeks to keep Italy neutral until Poland capitulates, then split French forces along German and Italian borders to ease a western front push. Mussolini’s entry could divert 20 percent of French troops, aiding the Axis risk.
Poem satirizes idle living as the speaker extols the busy land of Endeavor where work and enterprise banish woes and pessimism. The verse contrasts indecision with industry and urges leaving laziness to join the productive, blessed realm beyond.
A note explains the proper use of quotation marks when several paragraphs are quoted. It states that each paragraph should begin with an opening quote, but only the final paragraph ends with a closing quote, preventing misplacement of marks.
Uruguay shipped more than 75 000 tons of refrigerated meat to foreign markets in 1938, reflecting robust exports and demand for country meat products amid international trade.
A New York writer and daughter Pat fly to Tucson to begin at the University of Arizona, reflecting on desert ties, family farewells, and the pull of the West. The trip includes meeting new acquaintances, airport humor, and a father recalling earlier desert awakenings as inspiration.
A fragmentary travel diary describes a trip through Washington Knoxville Nashville Memphis Dallas Fort Worth toward a stormy voyage. A fraternity brother lawyer in Tucson may be introduced to the right people. Catherine, a tired child, watches as the ship rocks during thunder.
Clair Beattie, head of the drivers license division, and assistants Earl Pahl and L S Emmert were dismissed after a $2,090 shortage audit. Rex Holgate and Marvin Winnie had previous discharges and new roles were appointed as replacements. Clarence Shirer named Beattie’s successor as assistant chief of the highway patrol.
Indelible ink marks may sometimes be removed by applying equal parts turpentine and ammonia as a cleaning method.
The Rev. Franklin Kohl, pastor of the Extra Christian church for nine months, preached his farewell in Exira and will move this week to Grand Island Nebraska to take a pastorate at a large Grand Island church. This marks a promotion for the clergyman.
A quiz listing ten knowledge prompts asks about weights, geography, sports, serving suggestions, salaries, pronunciation, theater terms, and a few names. It instructs readers to try and answer at least seven before turning to page seven for answers.
The article notes post al franking required signatures as evidence of frank and contrasts autograph collecting with stamp collecting. It remarks that signers of the Declaration face heavy competition from autograph hunters, while several Presidential collections near completeness.
The earth length of axis about 7 900 miles and moon diameter about 2 100 miles. The earth surface about 13 percent larger than the moon. Earth volume about 50 times moon, and mass about 81 times greater due to higher density.
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