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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1924
Page
2
Washington reports three generals will retire within the year: Maj. Gen. Tandon Beach, Brig. Gen. Benjamin Alvord, and Maj. Gen. Willard Holbrook. The piece covers a wide range of 1921 1922 financial figures and political notes.
Personal F will Weber of Wilmette Illinois ex aminer in the bureau of naturalization U S Department of Labor died at Davenport Indiana of pernicious anemia Edgar Taylor Wheelock seventy author publicist and former Wisconsin newspaper editor died at Chicago Minnie Eleonora Duse famous Italian tragedienne died at a hotel in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania of influenza Brig Gen Horatio Gates Gibson ninety seven oldest graduate of West Point and last surviving Mexican war officer died at Washington
Three people perished when a South Shore interurban struck their car five miles west of South Bend. In other items, crop statistician Joseph A. Becker sailed from New York to Rome, Senator Cummins defended the immigration bill stance, Methodist students in Louisville pledged readiness to die rather than fight, and a runaway locomotive killed four in Chicago.
Jacksonville voters authorized up to 50000 in bonds to extend the local water plant. The items reflect a slate of regionwide notes from church calls to public projects, with multiple Illinois towns reporting officials and local developments.
Warren 8 Stone reports that four major rail labor bodies back Labollette for president while Alfred E. Smith runs in Albany. Cordell Hull to seek re election in Carthage. McAdoo wins 3 Wisconsin delegates. 23 remain pledged to Smith per a Madison dispatch. Florida and Georgia labor groups discuss delegates and nominations. Daniels says he will not run.
The Berlin government agrees to the Dawes plan. Sapan tightens immigration laws banning Chinese laborers. Tokyo police round up coolies for deportation. Kellogg entourage attends London court ceremony. Obregon troops seize Yucatan in Mexico. Krupp exports military nickel steel. Gasoline engine explosion destroys 35 Pendleton buildings with $600000 loss.
A series of brief items covers a Paris death from a bed fire after an overturned lamp, the death of minister Cal Win in Metamora, a push to unite Illinois as a single game reserve, a rehearing on the Chicago Peoria & St. Louis railroad sale, and local fishing and land drainage in Fulton county. Other notes include donations to Burek College, a new Polo chapter of the Iznu k Wal ton league, a $10 bounty for a wolf near Shefield, limits on hard labor for bootlegging, a Chicago Knights of Columbus safe robbery, earlier county fairs in northern Illinois, a Scabbard and Blade rifle contest win by Illinois, hemp production at St. Charles, and a statewide cent gift program for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial.
Mrs. Mark P. Mears presides as the Illinois State Council of Parent-Teachers holds its twenty-fifth annual meeting in the new Centennial building Springfield. Francis G. Blair welcomes attendees and public instruction outlines goals. Sugar production near Findlay rises with over 1000 trees tapped and camps yielding strong output. Buddie the fox terrier attempts to save four year old Hartzell Kellenberger of Peoria from a well accident, but the boy drowns despite revived efforts after the dog retrieves him.
Five years ago the foster father and wife adopted Veronika, the ten year old daughter of Joliet fruit merchant George Roussolopuis, after her mother was divorced. The child's mother, now remarried, seeks possession but the foster parents refuse.
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