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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1925
Page
2
A collage of quips and anecdotes from a bygone era. Vignettes range from a dentist disputing payment for false teeth to a school board debating paint color. Humorous maxims touch on love, style, luck, and wit with playful regional tone.
A county inspector visits a village school and praises the pupils’ reading and general knowledge. He then says he wishes to be a boy again, asking why, only to be met with a cheeky reply from a back-row child, “Cause you forgot all you ever knowed.”
A witty note from the Cleveland Times questions why being part of high society should make life harder. The column suggests social labels don’t justify toughness or hardship among the elite.
The schedule lists Class A B C and D grade school games across Dolton Calumet City Lansing Chicago Heights Wentworth Lincoln Steger Crete Thornton Hazel Crest Homewood Cot tage Grove Matteson Riverdale Glenwood Berger McKinley Globe April to May 1925 with dates, venues and pairings. It notes ground times 3 30 p m and acceptable balls Spaulding Wilson Reach Fair Play De Bir Higgins plus a $1 team fee to Sam Sach Homewood Ill and directs communications to Mr Sachs.
Plans discussed by William B. Stout indicate Ford Plant at Ford City Hegewisch could be used for aircraft manufacture or assembly. The talks aim to launch a Chicago to Detroit commercial air service, with a test flight delivering 2,000 pounds of freight from Detroit arriving Monday.
Conan Doyle recounts Oscar Wilde telling of the devil observing petty fiends tormenting a holy hermit. The devil whispers that the saint’s brother has just become bishop of Alexandria, provoking the hermit’s jealous scowl and a sly moral about envy.
Sir Francis Drake completed his circumnavigation in under three years, leaving England in December 1577 and returning in September 1580. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth upon his homecoming.
The London Humorist notes that speeches at public dinners in Japan occur before the dinner begins. The piece hints at the influence of Eastern wisdom and suggests these remarks define the so called wise men of the East.
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