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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1921
Page
2
Washington dentist Mahlon Loomis patented and demonstrated aerial telegraphy in 1866 from two Virginia Blue Ridge peaks. Using kites and insulated copper wire, signals were read remotely, proving wireless telegraphy could work without wires.
Timbuctoo, a farm dog near Boston, learned a helpful trick. A seven party line rings five times and the dog runs to his mistress with five short barks every time. He never errs and even when the mistress is out of range he reliably alerts her by the same signal.
Two hundred fifty Victoria cadets completed a 1400 mile dispatch ride from the state commandant to the defense minister. They averaged over 14 mph and finished 6 hours 23 minutes early, showcasing a new cadet training system and sparking public interest in youth athletics and camaraderie. The feat inspired fathers and elder brothers as well.
A 25 car train loaded entirely with Japanese and Chinese eggs left Vancouver bound for New York. It combined nine Seattle carloads with sixteen from the Empress of Russia, with most consignments to New York except 1500 London and 1000 Montreal cases. The New York load totals about 17 500 cases of 30 and 36 dozen each, roughly 6 500 000 eggs.
A cafe encounter prompts a curious exchange about appetite and meal pace. One man defends rapid eating by claiming it stretches digestion and reduces meat costs. He asserts he must eat meat every third day due to rising prices.
In a comic Detroit Free Press spoof, Delilah toys with Samson using gold teeth and hair shears but a sudden horseback rider warns of an imminent flood. Samson hides Delilah in the attic before lifting the house and doghouse to survive the rising water. Delilah rues not cutting his hair before the flood.
A Minneapolis Journal excerpt argues freedom is earned through personal growth and self mastery. It states inner discord and restraint hinder free will until an individual masters his passions and desires, paying a price for true freedom.
The piece recalls the 1830s American debut of fashionable galoshes in Boston. It notes their ugly clumsy design, need for special rubber care, and seasonal issues as they hardened in winter and stayed sticky in summer. Owners feared rot and odor, even burying spoiled pairs.
Vancouver report says fishermen proposed destroying hair seals by airplane and machine gun fire to the fisheries department. Earlier efforts using set lines and hooks at the Eraser river mouth partially reduced the seals but did not end the problem. The new plan envisions dropping on seals on sandbars and shooting them from above.
The United States Bureau of Standards reports an improved welding technique for optical glass. It forms near distortion free joins in various items including glass cells hollow prisms and joined glass tubes. The process heats the shaped glass to the annealing point then applies a small blowpipe frame to the edges to be fused.
A Congo district tribe practices a fearsome burial rite for a man and his wives. The chief wife is placed in the grave followed by the husband, then the other wives whose limbs are broken to trap them. The dead man lies with the chief wife, while the others sit in the circle as earth is piled on. Drums and shouts accompany the rite.
A chaotic Khlyst gathering in Russia features long prayers, chants, and a midnight dance. Participants shed garments, don white robes, then perform frenzied movements, biting and trampling one another until exhaustion with naked, bloodstained floors reported by witnesses.
Weather and scarcity have driven birds to urban areas across England. Green plover flock in Hertfordshire stockyards and paddocks, rocks are common in Buckinghamshire, and old scouts report birds near doors competing for food with livestock. Pigeons forage on ice in London, while gulls struggle. Starlings adapt by feeding from river surfaces and debris.
Three children ride a city street car to school. The elder sister holds the stop button for over a block, then the brother forcibly pushes it. He leads the way to alight, and after the sisters step off, the boy darts across the tracks ignoring the bell warning.
A historical note explains that about one per cent of Cuba's sugar crop, worth 1.5 million dollars, is destroyed each year by molds and bacteria. It states that each American consumes about 1.84 pounds of sugar annually and estimates 873000 people could be supplied by the sugar lost to germs.
A patron who trusted a Chinese laundry found that overnight staff had vanished and no longer recognized him. When his check was demanded, he finally used the laundry mark in the workers’ hieroglyphics to prove his ownership of the shirts and collars and retrieved his bundle.
American school children through the Junior Red Cross finance and sustain Tirana’s first vocational training school for Albanian children. The organization provides machinery equipment books maps globes pencils and school supplies to war damaged public schools while sending colored pictures for entertainment and instruction.
The Ellis Island arrivals last year came from 53 nations. Fifteen social workers meet these newcomers while languages are spoken by each staffer. Col. Helen Bastedo of the Department of Labor directs island social work in Washington. An assistant is a YWCA foreign born division member, a Czech Slovak by birth with Europe and America experience.
The Houston Post recalls a vacationing visitor finding prices steep at a summer resort except for worms, which a native lent cheaply for gardening. The anecdote highlights locals trading worms freely while other goods remain costly.
The article argues French marriages are thorough partnerships begun by civil ceremonies. It notes church weddings are uncommon and unions pair people by practical mutual burdens. It claims class lines persist due to practicality, not snobbery, linking spouses within similar social groups.
The article notes Moslem practice of not wearing mourning or isolating after death. It describes condolence visits to the harem and the calm, resigned speech of inmates. It states that Muslim beliefs deem expressing sorrow over a child's death sinful and harmful to the child's soul's peace in paradise.
Augus tin Silon recounts a tale of Empress Eugenie startled by a Japanese parasol filled with insects. An overzealous aide de camp opened it while she rested in a hammock, unleashing a rain of grubs and caterpillars that sent the empress shrieking and leaping from the hammock.
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