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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1907
Page
7
A weary traveler asks for shelter at a rural farmhouse and is offered a modest lunch. Dell accepts his kindness and a ten-dollar gold piece is found, prompting fears the man may be Uncle Oliver. The visitor returns, revealing his true identity and gratitude for Dell's hospitality.
Barney and Pat stroll past a jewelry store window filled with diamonds rubies and emeralds. Pat jokes he would rather have his shovel while Barney eyes the stones with humor. The humorous exchange reflects agile banter from Lippincott's Magazine.
A passenger notes a corporation bridging the Styx and asks if the competition hurts trade. Charon concedes some impact but boasts a shade remains best, reflecting a wry take in the Kansas City Times.
In Cardiff area a couple reports a nocturnal ghost repeatedly visiting the bridegroom, taking the form of his alive mother and allegedly seeking revenge for the marriage. Neighbors, the vicar, and the mother-in-law describe eerie sightings and a mysterious power loss during one encounter.
Easton physician reports 16 year old Katie Sourwine ran away with a Chinaman about 35, to marry in New York City. The man ran a laundry and lodged with his brother who owns a Chinese restaurant where he met the girl, a nurse for a child. The mother learned of the affair as the train pulled away at High Valley station.
Chicago suffered a violent wind and rain storm that hit northern Illinois and nearby Wisconsin. Five people died and fourteen were injured in the city as a boarding house at 55 Fry Street was crushed, with eleven wounded and three seriously hurt.
The review board report of the engineers corps backs a continuous freight route from Pittsburg to Cairo via canals and locks with the Ohio River deepened to nine feet. The plan was presented at a meeting of business men from towns along the river and was universally endorsed.
Mrs. May Mundy was assaulted near Fairview park in Decatur while walking home from a picnic. Her mother Mrs. Elizabeth Pifer warned of vigilant action if the law fails, and police study a description to identify the suspect. The attack occurred around 11 o clock at Clinton and Sangamon streets.
Mrs. Thomas Fadden and her 11 year old son left their Decatur home without family knowledge and moved into the Wabash hotel. She told officers she fled due to visions and a fear she would be killed. Her husband later arrived and urged her to return, but she refused.
Kankakee reports hoboes avoiding the city after arrests and ten days labor sentences in the stone quarry. Earlier plans kept about 30 tramps at work, now only three remain employed by the city to break stone. Law Hits Amateur Plumber in Aurora. Nicholas Shlentz fined nine dollars and costs after testing the state licensing law on plumbing his own house. case appealed to higher court after a five hour jury deliberation.
Nine members of an Amstrongs family near Baylis face typhoid fever, with three healthy children staying with a neighbor during the illness. The case reflects a single household outbreak affecting multiple siblings at once.
Thieves have caused worry to dairymen in and around Joliet as at least twenty cows have vanished over several days with none recovered or located.
Hipsleot Delcourt of Kewanee was arrested on a charge of operating a blind pig at his residence.
Illinois Methodists and neighbors gathered at Shiloh to mark the 100th anniversary of the first permanent Methodist church west of the Ohio River and the denomination’s first Illinois church. Bishop McKendrie organized the church and later founded McKendrie College in Lebanon, Illinois. W H Chamberlin read the original 1807 sermon taken down by J B Lemen on August 14 1807.
Dr W E K Taylor reports Mrs Mary McKinney once of Aledo, tried in Peoria county circuit court in June 1906 for cruel acts toward her ward Stella Grady a Chicago foundling, is a physical wreck with health decline after commitment to Watertown asylum and pending penitentiary term.
John H. Garnsey, Joliet lawyer, attacks the sanitary district's bill to extend the drainage canal through Joliet and gain power at Brandon's road. The drainage board president R. R. McCormick replies, sending a counter statement to legislators and interested groups as the October adjourned session looms.
Widow Lena Mason 35 ends her life by swallowing poison. her dog dies at her side after licking her lips. Police seek man named C. Li Delpeak. A letter to her mother Catherine Nicholson of Yates City MI expresses shame over loving another man and asks forgiveness.
Bloomington report says a valuable horse owned by J. W. Shores was killed by a swarm of bees on his head while grazing. The bee attack caused the animal to thrash, run, and finally collapse from exhaustion and paralysis within minutes, dying after about half an hour.
The second annual convention of the German American Press Association of the Northwest and the German American Press Association of Winds will convene in Peoria for three days starting September 20.
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