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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1928
Page
7
Instructions describe a poisonous cricket bait using bichloride or mercury dissolved in water, mixed with flour to a paste, spread inside banana skins and placed on cardboard in infested rooms. Warns the ball is dangerous and must be kept away from children and pets.
The phrase the game's not worth the candle framed in a discussion of costly candles and card playing for money. It notes how illumination and small stakes shaped social gaming in earlier times.
Ivanhoe hosts Harvey after a heavy Supers turnout while Thornton visits next Sunday to settle a prior defeat. Box score shows Ivanhoe 6 Harvey 3 in 10 innings with Matteson 2 Thornton 0, Lansing 11 Posen 1, Chicago Heights 9 Homewood 7. League standings list Ivanhoe 8 2 0.889 and Chicago Heights 9 3 0.750.
Mohawks overcome Dolton 7-4 after trailing 4-2. Frank Simmick hit two dingers, one in the first and one in the third, tying the game at 2-2. Mohawks later surged with five runs in the sixth to secure the victory.
The Arrows drop to Roseland Grasshoppers 5-4 after a late push falls short. Ben Curtis takes the loss on ten hits and 13 strikeouts while Niewald Reich and Curtis each have two hits. Shortstop Sterk makes a key defensive play with a runner on first in the ninth.
The Arrows will play the Colored Wonders from 115th St next Sunday marking a promised strong game. They clarify they faced Matteson last Sunday, not Steger, correcting a prior misstatement.
Clovers A C faces the Dia Mounts Boosters in their first Riverdale Park game set Sunday August 5 at 38 p m. Evers and Putt will handle the batteries for the Clovers as locals rally to back the new Riverdale team.
South side civic groups finalize plans for a Chicago to Kankakee super highway with three entry routes into the city. The proposal, backed by the South End and South Chicago Chambers of Commerce, envisions connections to Michigan State and Indiana avenues and a widened South Park avenue as a primary link into the city. City council plans include extending and widening the South Park approach and paving Indiana avenue from 115th to 127th Street once opening approvals are granted.
The Circus Maximus in Rome was built by King Torquio and expanded by Julius Caesar centuries before Christ. It stood 312 feet high with a length of 18 875 feet and a width of 625 feet. It held about 100 000 spectators and later capacity rose to 885 000 in the fourth century. It hosted games and chariot races.
The weather bureau describes how a whirlwind forms with lower atmospheric pressure inside than outside. This inward force directs air toward the center, overcoming tangential motion and causing the air to move in circles around the axis.
In 1927 ten comets were observable, with four previously seen in 1926 remaining visible for part of the year. Most were telescopic, except Skjellerup’s and the Pons-Winnecke comet which was barely naked eye for a few evenings.
The article notes early Egyptian boats served for rowing and sailing and cites Isaiah 18 2 mentioning vessels of bulrushes. It describes boats made from reeds, principally papyrus plants found in water.
Boise Idaho is believed to be the only city in the world with a natural hot water system.
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