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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1922
Page
4
A reflection on gender roles and social change notes women's education, hair care, and cosmetics impact while contrasting male and female usage of party lines. It also comments on easy money seekers, veil makers, and a lighthearted line about youths committing flower bed robberies to wait for fruit season.
The fragment quotes a maxim about copying simplicity and credits Steele as the source. It presents a concise reflection on the difficulty of duplicating simplicity as a virtue in any craft or practice.
The Dalton board distributes toxin freely to spur a town wide cleanup. Residents are urged to inoculate homes with neat yards and tidy parkways, stop littering, and keep streets bright. Strangers notice the improved appearance and leave with a positive impression.
South Holland and Illinois committees mobilize to feed and shelter 20000 Armenian and Syrian orphans. Illinois headquarters report worsening needs after the French withdrawal from Cilicia, as displaced children face starvation and deportation amid Turkish cruelty. Public drives urge statewide support to provide food and shelter.
A garbled notice recounts pantomime as an early form of caiatic art with Greek drama as its predecessor. It notes Roman origin and mentions actors Pylides and Patytlas delivering the first performance despite illness, delivering a wordless production to an appreciative audience.
Portland cement is described as the leading stone cement, formed from a Portland Island limestone blend near Dorset England. It is produced by wet and dry processes using chalk and clay or limestone, with mixing, grinding, kilning, and aging to a fine powder.
The article notes a belief that handling or cutting three pieces causes blood or harm. It links three cuts, Mio Wire, and two kiru to deadly outcomes in language and ritual. The piece also mentions sewing waste from fabrics causing grievous wounds and sympathetic magic shaping daily behavior.
Physiologists note the dying person loses the senses in sequence with smell first and consciousness possibly lasting twenty minutes after others fade. Many report seeing lights or visions at death, while ancients faced it without fear, calling it the Great Adventure and a mere change rather than a final end.
Julia Dent Grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant, born in St. Louis, followed him through wars and postings. She lived moving with the army, stood by him during the Civil War, and witnessed two presidential inaugurations.
A United States consul in Progreso describes chiclera workers harvesting chicle in Yucatan Campeche forests. Gatherers tap trees for years, cook and mold sap into blocks, and face dangers including a local superstition about the Title old man of the forest that compels workers to change locations after sightings.
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