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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1910
Page
4
Brigkmakers Local Union No 6 meets on the second and last Thursday evenings at the A. O. U. W. Hall in Dolton. Officers listed are President William J. Albrecht, Recording Secretary Albert Kasten, and Financial Secretary Andrew Messerschmidt.
W Z L 1689 J of N A meets on the second and fourth Sundays at 8 PM at AOU W Hall Dolton. John O’Brien is president with Geo W Luckenbill as secretary and treasurer. Business Men’s Association details given for first Wednesday at AOU W Hall Dolton 8 PM with Henry J Diliner president Frank O Bergold recording secretary Henry Hahn financial secretary and O Obeldobel treasurer.
The Riverdale Improvement Association meets on the second Monday each month at the Village Hall. Riverdale Hose Company No. 1 convenes the first Wednesday at the Hose House. Women’s Relief Corps No. 279 meets the second Friday and fourth Friday each month at the Village Hall. Dolton School Board meets the last Tuesday at Park Avenue School. Riverdale Board Directors meet the third Saturday at Bowen School.
Money and happiness debate the costs of wealth and self control. A Dolton classified asks for second hand bicycles at Ha Hahn's 444 Lincoln Avenue, offering a related local sales note.
A new intercepting sewer plan accompanies the Calumet canal project to handle flood waters. It routes from 92nd street and the Strand to a pumping station at 130th street Indiana Avenue and discharges into the Sag channel west of Blue Island. The project costs about 5.64 million dollars with an 18 to 60 foot canal design and potential outside-city construction.
A Columbus Dispatch item quotes a joke about a wealthy Irishman who drives his sisters in his car. He teases them by driving fast and rough, hoping they cry, while the younger sister shyly reveals they had left Margaret ten minutes earlier.
Official calendar from the Board of Election Commissioners lists key dates for filings, conventions, and elections. It covers July 18 filing opens, August deadlines for petitions and conventions, September primary, county and state conventions and congressional and state gatherings, and November general election.
The article traces how the sun in the sign Leo marks peak summer heat and how ancient and Greco Roman cultures used lions heads in fountains. It notes the lion motif in water displays across Athens Ephesus Olympia and Agrigentum and suggests the guardian of the stream origin of lions water imagery possibly from Asia.
A blind passenger shares memories of climbing the Statue of Liberty and other monuments in a New York harbor tale. He recalls guiding locals on sighted tours, comparing climbs from Bunker Hill to the Washington Monument and noting the immigrants’ first city view as ships passed.
Schedule fragment shows travel times and routes for a Business Men's Special service running south from Riverdale with multiple daily time points including 6 20am 10 01am and connections to Frisco Chi East North. The readable legibly lists arrival and departure times such as 4 33 pm 7 09 pm and 12 42 pm for the service.
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