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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1923
Page
4
A retrospect piece ribbing society with social jokes about women independence dress codes work ethics and schooling. It jests about aprons party gowns sweat of the jaw foremen cursing English lessons and housing budgets while noting lazy workers and youths urged toward new vices and amusements.
The obituary regards Warren G Harding as a practical sympathetic figure shaped by his humble beginnings. It notes his common sense approach and ability to challenge grand theories with everyday wisdom, suggesting such leadership is needed in reconstruction times.
Novelists and dramatists describe young women drawn to marry wealthy but unworthy men for social status and luxury. Mothers trap suitors while some girls pursue the sign of cash, trading potential happiness for a poor bargain in life.
The famed Greek philosopher Diogenes, a sharp critic of everyday life in Athens, is remembered for living in a tub and walking midday with a lit lantern in pursuit of an honest man.
Chief engineer D. J. Brumley announces that by February 1927 the Illinois Central suburban service will be electrified across the district, with 418 miles converted to 33 000 volt overhead DC. A Randolph Street terminal for twelve-car trains and two additional freight tracks are outlined amid labor shifts and Mexican worker settlement in South Chicago.
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