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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1910
Page
4
Business Men's Association meets first Wednesday at A. Va. U. W. Hall in Dalton. Henry J. Dillner serves as president with Frank O. Bergold as recording secretary, Henry Hahn as financial secretary, and OQ Obeldobei as treasurer.
Riverdale Improvement Association holds meetings on the second Monday monthly at the Village Halls Riverdale with T F Kinney as president and John E Schafer as secretary Riverdale Hose Company No 1 meets the first Wednesday at the Hose House Hightown with Fred Ludwig as president Geo L Koehler secretary Herman Dreesen treasurer Women s Relief Corps Q W Spencer Corps No 279 meets the second Friday 2 pm and fourth Friday 8 pm at the Village Hall Riverdale Mrs Emily Claussen president and Mrs Dorothy Niemeyer secretary Dolton School Board meets the first Tuesday each month at 7 30 pm at Park Avenue School
Riverdale board directors met on Saturdays each month at 7 30 P M at Bowen School to discuss district matters and plan upcoming activities.
Mrs. Russell Sage proposes a nationwide effort to fund facilities that let poor individuals borrow in emergencies at fair rates. Early trials show honest borrowers exist among the poor, and such aid could avert family disintegration, suicide, and crime while offering advisory services for household and small business finance.
Village of Dolton grants Eastern Illinois Railway Company rights to lay track on 147th and Chicago streets to Lincoln Park and Indiana avenues with overhead wires. Single track must be built within twelve months. a second track later. Power via overhead wires. poles allowed in curb lines, spaced about 115 feet. Company may acquire property for depots and private right of way. hauling live stock not permitted.
A compact listing echoes patriotic verse describing familiar hymns like My Country Tis of Thee and Our Father’s God to Thee. The piece centers on liberty, faith, and national pride, invoking natural landscapes and divine guardianship as symbols of national character.
A column of classified business notices for Dolton and Riverdale items including for sale farms houses and real estate parcels. Listings mention a 100 acre farm near DeNote Indiana real estate loans in Riverdale and multiple Dolton lots and houses with addresses and prices. Also sale of wagons furniture and seeds and an ad to learn barber trade through the Pointer office 137th Street Dolton.
A London judge ejected a woman from his court for entering without a hat. He invoked St. Paul’s injunction on hat wear in church as applicable to courts of law since time immemorial, and his ruling stood despite the woman’s arguments.
The Pointer offers a classified notice for property sales and purchases. Advertise your property for sale or state what you want to buy and this column will help connect you with potential buyers and save money.
Fragmentary OCR shows a rail timetable with times for North from Riverdale and Chicago connections. It lists departures from Dalton around 5.35 a.m. and 6.13 a.m., late morning and afternoon slots, and references daily operation with Sundays excluded.
The article notes that extremely deaf listeners can hear over the telephone, able to conduct long distance conversations if they rely on lip movement or ear trumpets and similar devices, while other sounds remain inaudible. This observation is presented as a curiosity of the early telephone era.
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