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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1923
Page
7
In Farm Life notes, Brown asks how to grow potatoes under dry summer heat. Jones responds that planting onions among the potatoes helps. the onions’ strong scent and moisture help the yield, making the dry weather tolerable.
The gas industry still employs five times as many workers and uses twenty times as much capital as in 1890 despite major advances in the electrical industry.
Mrs. Edna M. Barcus of Indianapolis announces American Legion Auxiliary and Legion cooperation to run a poppy campaign a few days before Memorial Day. Poppies fund local Legion service work, memorials, and the $100,000 endowment for grave decoration in Europe. The effort calls on all Americans to wear a silk poppy and honor fallen soldiers.
J P Strahl of 6517 88th St Portland Oregon credits Tanlac with curing long stomach troubles and gaining eighteen pounds He reports better appetite sleep and energy and notes sales exceed 35 million bottles Tanlac ad also includes generic aphorism and sale note by druggists.
A collage of brief anecdotes from newspapers: Flora’s collie Mickey causes mischief prompting a family outburst. an English inventor of cigarettes at 1858 London details. and a nurse recounts dropping a frying pan on a crowded streetcar journey.
The university professor argues cosmetics and perfume expenditures last year rose 50 percent beyond total endowments of all universities and colleges. The observation reflects skepticism about effort and priorities, noting constant makeup routines as evidence.
A fragmented newspaper ad sketch shows a window cashier shot in a paneful scene. Vendors offer help wanted for vaudeville artist roles, singing ability, and a restaurant promise that meals feel like home. References requested.
Henry Fielding 1707 to 1754 renowned novelist of the eighteenth century. He wrote plays practiced law and served as a police court judge. His work Tom Jones (1749) is cited by Coleridge as a nearly perfect plot in literature.
Leonidas W. Van Quentin plans a protest letter to the dictionary maker. He argues dictionaries define common words but omit newer terms and questions why a book cannot include words he wants to know. He cites a Kansas City Star quote and muses on language evolution and not being able to express needs.
Daniel Dabney of Independence Kansas donates 388 acres and 25000 dollars to the Kansas American Legion for a proposed Legion home for orphans of ex servicemen. Legion leaders credit the gift as a crucial step toward a national orphans' home and a training school for Legion children.
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