Riverside wildlife stories brighten spring at local club
Riverside Golf Club members report a Canadian goose family near the twelfth hole pond with five eggs visible as Mother Goose incubates. Neighbors on Addison Road witness an owl displacing robins, eating their eggs, and departing. A possum eludes capture after escaping from a cardboard container in the Editor’s garage, limbering away into the brush.
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Riverside Golf Club
George C. Burkhardts
Addison Road
Burkhardt Porch
Society
Douglas Trotter
Walter Knorr
Deaths From Heart Trouble in England and Wales Study
A study from England and Wales ranks bartenders highest for heart disease deaths, followed by barbers and physicians, while agricultural laborers, carpenters, bricklayers and plumbers, and farmers are lower. Farmers currently claim the largest share of national income, with agriculture netting about 18 billion dollars in 1947 after expenses. Smoking worsens some heart conditions and doctors may permit, forbid, or ration it.
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England
Wales
Alpha Delta Pi Plans Founders Day Observance
Alpha Delta Pi will observe the sorority's 97th anniversary on Saturday May 15 with a luncheon at the Thiavis Athletic club at noon. Mrs James Murray grand second vice president will speak. Local reservations are handled by Mrs Harold Ekroth LaGrange 5869. The sorority was founded May 15 1841 at Wesleyan Female College in Macon Georgia.
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Alpha Delta Pi
Tliavis Athletic Club
James Murray
Harold Ekroth
LaGrange
Wesleyan Women’s College
Macon
Georgia
Offers Destiny For Russia
Adolph J. Radosta Jr writes from Berlin in a Riverside News letter to the editor. He reports Russians in Berlin forcing U S train boarding and General Clay halting trains. He mentions leaving his car in Bavaria and plans to renew his subscription while noting travels in southern Germany.
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Adolph J. Radosta, Jr
Berlin
Germany
General Clay
Bavaria
U. S
Russia
Clay
Frankfurt
Bremen
Ber
Misquoted banter on military draft triggers playful war talk
In a fragmented remark the speaker jokes about cutting off noses to spite faces. They reference General Ola as having a long one and claim to inform the local draft board when a new army is ready to tell Russians to go to hell, reflecting wartime bravado and satire.
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Ola
Children memory books and scrapbook ideas
A guide to making memory books for children suggests including elements of interest such as congratulatory notes for a newborn and keepsakes from early life. It emphasizes personal mementos and prompts to preserve memories for the child’s future years.
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Valetc
Camp Cutten Directs Girls Summer Camp at Lake Villa
Miss Colton of the West Suburban YMCA will direct Camp Cutten, a girls summer program at Lake Villa Illinois. The two week session in June accommodates 100 girls aged 9 to 15 living eight per cabin with counselors and Junior counselors. Camp emphasizes home and community life, seeks cabin counselors from nearby towns, and offers a free camp for mothers who bring a child. A registered nurse is on site, meals are balanced, swimming is supervised, and facilities include a dining hall lodge craft shop assembly room hospital warehouse and multiple boats and canoes.
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Winifred . Colton
West Suburban
Colton
la Grange
YMCA
LaGrange
Cool storage tips for Brookfield goods and produce
Brookfield notes emphasize cool, ventilated storage to preserve freshness and nutritional value. Dried fruits, relishes, nuts, cereals, whole grain flour, chocolate, peanut butter, oils, fats, potatoes, apples, and other fruits and vegetables require cold, airy conditions to prevent shriveling, sprouting, and spoilage.
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Meg Siriaas
Mister 'Opossum
Mister Oppossum
The
Riverside News
O’toole’s Fine Foods
Hillgrove Avenue
Swan
Shortie
Sepgoo
Camp Cutten
Winifred
Breen
la Grange Road
the Brookfield Magn Thurs
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