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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1930
Page
5
Pathfinder Magazine notes that no two Bible chapters are identical though some parallels exist such as Isaiah thirty seven and II Kings nineteen. It also traces anthracite coal use from 1840s, peaking around 1890 for blast furnaces at 2.5 million tons, then yielding to coke by 1925.
Rt. Rev. James DeWolf Perry of Rhode Island elected presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in America by the house of bishops in Chicago. He succeeds Bishop Charles P. Anderson of Chicago, who died last January.
Illinois boasts the world’s largest activated sludge plant in Chicago and the Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Company as the largest bank under one roof. The state ranked fifth in automobile registrations in 1929 and supports a major watch and clock payroll. Chicago claims vast municipal lighting with 81 000 street lamps and the era’s largest cooperative apartment building.
A compact portrait collection from New York includes a six foot six bootblack parading style with a rosebud and stock ticker dreams, a top hat bootblack named Tony, a hotel linen mix up with pajamas, a loud sleeping crowd in an uproarious play, and a bemused audience reacting to the bald sleeper who shouts No manners.
The piece notes Captain Hawks success in a ocean to ocean glider flight and praises gliders as sturdy flying machines. It contrasts American labor focus with Russian mobilization talk and warns against forced social schemes while praising planetary science and historic Sparta and Athens.
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