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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1908
Page
8
A father tells son to imitate a busy bee. Ten minutes later the boy climbs a neighbor’s apple tree for blossoms and is punished with a thrashing behind the barn. He laments that lesson and plans to imitate a lazy toad next time.
A note lists old measures with conversions: a league three miles a fathom six feet a span ten percent inches and a hand four inches. It cites a French proverb declaring nothing impossible to one with a will.
A New York clubman recalls finding a pin at the bottom of ice cream in an uptown tearoom. The waiter warns that the pin cost a worker his job, while the speaker notes the danger of swallowing such an object and jokes about patrons who merely sip rather than chew.
At the Denver conference of state attorneys general President Hadley criticizes the reversal of the 29.24 million dollar Standard Oil penalty. He says the legal fiction of corporations shields real offenders and calls for laws ensuring judgments go to the correct party and cannot be reversed due to technicalities.
The National Firemen's Convention at the Masonic Temple Chicago ends today after three days of sessions August 19 20 and 21. Delegates represent 365000 firemen with Illinois officials Peter Ripley and L E Reich among local delegates. Manufacturers showcase fire fighting apparatus and new inventions to aid communities against fires.
Labor Day at home will feature a parade and picnic by Dal ton Brickmakers Local No 5. All local lodges and societies are invited and several will join the procession. It promises a grand affair and urges preparations to celebrate creditably. Nobody works on Labor Day not even father.
Peter Verhoeven invites the public to a moonlight picnic at Riverdale Park tomorrow evening Saturday August 22. The event features dancing, good order, and free admission.
A St Louis clergyman predicts bells will be nearly extinct for church use in years. Trustees now install metal tubes hung in steeples struck by a hammer. Tubes avoid cracking and stay in tune, producing a rich organlike tone, unlike discordant mis tuned chimes.
A classroom exchange features Katie Smith and a teacher turning a patriotic song into a playful phonetic pun about chairs. The students laugh as each color receives a separate chair in the joke's punch line.
A brief note highlights small bantams performing well and a Spanish proverb frame of reference. The piece emphasizes cheerful roosters and local poultry humor in a light community feature.
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