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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1909
Page
4
The Utica Press notes Every Town in Yates County remains dry with no liquor licenses in any town. Penn Yan, county seat, will serve cold tea as a regular beverage for the first time in 30 years, highlighting Yates as the smallest New York county with easy cross-county travel within the speed limit.
A report on a lecture titled Phases of Human Life Youth Manhood and Old Age captures a quip from a young English girl. She observes that in youth we anticipate wicked deeds as innocence, in manhood we commit them as the prime of life, and in old age we regret them as dotage.
Rep Benton Kleeman introduced a bill aiming to curb Sanitary Trustees powers by tying allowable work to Calumet channel construction. The measure, linked to Des Plaines and Illinois Rivers districts, faces river interests opposition but may pass after removing an electric current clause.
A hired girl frets about washing dishes before an evening outing while a man insists. She jokes that his wife will inspect her trunk once she learns of the plans, exposing household tensions in a humorous Puck vignette.
New Hampshire was named for a patentee who served as governor of Portsmouth in Hampshire England. The state earned the nickname Granite State due to its mountains primarily formed of the rock.
A humorous exchange shows a poet asking about regular rates for publishing a poem. The editor suggests checking with the advertising department to confirm costs and how many insertions are allowed.
A diarist notes after dinner remarks on Johnson feeling obliged to touch a rail or post and to tread a center paving stone. He adds that he strongly shares this superstition, a belief unlikely to be found in a mind more rational than Lord Macaulay.
A four year old girl murmured a long word to fall asleep. Her father tried to explain its meaning to please her. She cried, and with the mother's help the father learned what had caused the grief. It was the word she used to sleep with before, now spoiled by explanation.
A chance seedling grown near Lowell Massachusetts around 1740 became the first Baldwin apple. Col Baldwin refined it in 1784 and gave the fruit his name. The original tree survived until after 1817 and a monument marks its site. the Baldwin remains the only apple so honored.
A New York society leader declares no gentleman can get along with fewer than 380 suits. The Philadelphia Star notes the tailor does not consider the reader a gentleman, suggesting satire on social expectations and dress codes.
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