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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1913
Page
5
A collage of wry musings and humorous lines including remarks on women’s dress, a misstep in legal matters, a New York mortgage, political sharp talk, and a minstrel era anecdote. The piece blends satire and social commentary with dated language and long-odd phrasing.
You can build and own a home by taking advantage of opportunities offered by the Dalton Riverdale Building and Loan Association. Two members have completed near up to date homes. two more are under construction. Others have taken loans from the association. Office at the First National Bank.
The Indiana Harbor railroad purchases 16 acres near Halsted street to develop a round house repair yards and coal chutes. Offices at Gibson Indiana will move to Riverdale with a brick building planned on the current site. A machine shop is rumored for the new yards.
Health Commissioner Young expands from public health to poetry as he contributes a piece to the department bulletin. The verse riffs on a clean up campaign and borrows lines from a classical cabaret, urging residents to scrub yards and curb trash while promoting typhoid fly prevention.
Alexander A. McKay sold 40 acres in the southwest quarter of section 33 adjoining Riverdale and just south of the Baltimore and Ohio Chicago terminal for 30000 dollars. Henry R. Holmgren purchased the land. Frederick T. Hoyt brokered the deal. The buyer plans to subdivide and market the property near the proposed Johns Manville plant.
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