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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1921
Page
6
A Treasury study warns Americans lost about half a billion dollars last year to fraudulent stock and oil deals. It urges investing surplus funds in government savings securities as safe, guaranteed options and notes the Dollar-a-Week Club expanding nationwide.
The article promotes treasury savings certificates as a rainy day hedge and describes a home remedy for cold feet. It suggests rolling a large sheet of paper into a tube to feed warm air under bedcovers, inhaling through the nose and exhaling through the tube to heat the feet before sleep.
The Pennsylvania railroad plans to test lard woods from Central and South America due to rising costs and scarce white oak. With annual tie use between 9,000,000 and 66,000,000 and war era price increases, the company inquiries the comparative cheapness and durability of southern hardwoods for ties.
A humorous snippet recalls a broken house bell that goes unrepaired while friends honk cars outside. The exchange highlights neglect and amusement as residents joke about the bell’s futility and the neighbors’ noisy greetings.
A clerk failed to deliver a letter addressed to Henry N. Smith Esq filed under the wrong cubby. The missive reached a colleague four days later, prompting warnings about including Esq. after names to avoid misrouting. Also notes a Seattle one man two man streetcar design and a brief rural anecdote about Josh and a mule.
New York s American Museum of Natural History holds Moropus fossils from the Agate Spring quarry in Nebraska. Osborn and Matthew describe Moropus as rhinoceros tapir and horse related, with three toes and distinctive teeth suited to browsing. The article notes possible digging adaptations for feeding and storage due to space limits.
Grace Dirling, aged twenty three, aided by her father, risked her life to rescue passengers from the Forfarshire wreck near the Farne Islands in September 1888. Their heroic actions saved thirteen people across two lifeboat trips as gale seas pounded the rocks. The government granted a reward and the public funded a large subscription in response. Grace died four years later of consumption.
A motivational note argues thrift and high ideals drive growth. It cautions that growing beyond ordinary will provoke skepticism, but persistence reveals hidden abilities. The piece emphasizes striving to the limit and starting the effort now.
The piece argues science in business is needed despite skepticism from officials and businessmen. It cites railway tests showing small design changes boosted firebox temp and saved coal, or cut fuel use by ten percent while adding cars, illustrating measurable gains from research versus old rule of thumb.
A Saturday Evening Post tale recounts how glass emerged from an accident when a Phoenician cargo ship wrecked on Belus River and sailors melted natron and sand by fire. Heat fused the materials forming a crude glass, suggesting early glassmaking began with Phoenician industry on their coast.
In midsummer Iowa stays sweltering while soil near the ice caves stays around 55 degrees. This keeps trees and flowers of northern habit thriving, as caves formed in porous limestone store winter air and release it slowly, frosting their exteriors in warm months.
The Savings division of the U S Treasury reports Americans make up about 8 percent of the world’s savers while the United States holds nearly 30 percent of global savings. It notes European caution and French thrift, urges more savers, and lists securities including Thrift Stamps and Treasury Savings Certificates as key options.
Fremont of the French School of Mines argues that the spiral motion of the edible snail inspired primitive man to conceive the screw. He states the idea came from the need to withdraw the snail from its shell, not the shell’s shape itself, illustrating how natural forms spark early engineering.
Ingenious desert waterworks uses 20 000 square feet of glass arranged in a VY slope with brackish pans beneath. Sun heat evaporates water, condenses on glass, and fresh water runs to a canal. Nearly a thousand gallons of drinkable water collected daily for arid regions.
A rich frugal city man asks a famous physician for health advice after feeling seedy and worn out. The doctor bluntly replies with a single word: take a taxi, illustrating a humorous exchange captured in Tit-Hits, London.
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