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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1921
Page
4
The piece mocks fat thumbs on budget juggling by politicians, drinking drivers, and Soft Soap Week while noting dames trimming skirts and bobbed hair excuses. It skewers I W W influence, swimming dangers, and motorists quality, with light humor on public life and safety.
An editorial asserts the rush to wealth and the lure of investment schemes. It notes that while ailments drive people to doctors and dentists, most men display egotism about money and fall for smooth talking promoters. The piece cites lawyers and other experts as possible guides.
A persuasive appeal promotes neighborhood bankers over large metropolitan institutions. It urges individuals to seek personal advice, keep money local, and rely on bankers who understand local finances and embrace the welfare of patrons. The piece contrasts community banks with big firms.
Illinois and other states discuss a national plan to form farmer owned commission companies in major stock yards with local shipping associations as units. Profits would be returned to producers by patronage dividends. The Committee of Fifteen votes August 10 in Chicago. Representatives from Illinois Ohio Iowa and Missouri planned August meetings and uniform audits reporting.
A hotel detective labels a frequent con artist a borrower who can extract money from anyone. The man pretends wealth and influence, fast talks targets, and pushes for large loans before they think. The borrower explains a quick, audience-targeted approach to secure funds from unsuspecting victims. Source: Kansas City Star.
A seventeenth century banner of blue laws shows a Swiss city ordinance banning jugglers and maskers as acts not intended by God. Gambling faced European disapproval, while reformers pushed temperance efforts in taverns. In France, Saturday drink limits aimed to protect Sunday worship.
The Japan Advertiser reports a curious practice in Nagoya where Baron Ban and his wife held funeral services at Gyokurinsai temple and tombstone-engraved nails teeth and hair to symbolically rebury themselves. The baron adopted the name Kogogure no Oten and marked his 66th birthday reinterpreting death as a rebirth.
A Baltimore parish tale explains how “church mice” connected with a concealed alarm flaw led to jewel thefts from a safe behind the altar. Investigators note the alarm was later disconnected to avoid repeated false alarms, while priests believed thieves would not desecrate sacred vessels.
The American Legion began 1921 with about 10,000 posts. 15 new posts raised the total to 9,930 in the week ending December 10. Arkansas led with three new posts, while the Women's auxiliary added 97 units to reach 1,486. New foreign units were established in Chuquicamata Chile and Guatemala City Guatemala.
The plan would move oil products from the Mackenzie basin to Bering Sea by river networks via Rat and Ball rivers to the Porcupine and Yukon rivers ending at salt water. Parliament may be asked to sanction the project. A Fort Norman strike is described as a rich flow.
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