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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1927
Page
3
A fragment suggests Van Heiene is portrayed as dignified but strained by life. The text references unnamed fellows and tunnels, with a stark image of a head being struck against them, in a Farm and Fireside style excerpt.
A satirical note from the Shoe and Leather Reporter lampoons censorship by comparing blunt terms to clubs in poker speak. The column comments on sensitivity and language choices in public discourse.
A brief Tic-Bits item recounts a man with a badly bruised face after an alleged confrontation. The fragment notes a prior remark about character and uses terse, local newspaper style. No dates or places are provided in the readable text.
A Glasgow Herald aphorism states that merchants who delay advertising until they can go big tend to never advertise at all. The note cautions on prudent, timely promotion.
Rapid City South Dakota reports support from the federal Department of Agriculture for a giant wheat pool among middle western farmers. Led by Nebraska Governor McKelvie, the plan seeks 50 percent control in Nebraska and expansion into Colorado Kansas and Oklahoma with $800 million in loans and a 90 percent price backing, pending Congress action.
The Fifty fifth General Assembly bills approved or signed include appropriations for the auditor of public accounts and the state treasurer, changes to dog licensing, trust company disclosures, sanitary districts tax powers, school age classes, and race track licensing. Notable items set specific funds, revised tax levies, and regulate pari mutuel wagering with director oversight.
Police report Francis A. Kloss arrested for attempted robbery also confessed to burglaries in Pennsylvanian cities totaling 6700 dollars. War dept designates 26 high schools as honor schools in military training. Shipping board postpones ad sale for two Atlantic cargo lines until October. Federal Radio Commission gives 30 day grace to 25 stations facing license loss. Women jurors in District of Columbia must not wear hats in the jury box per Chief Justice McCoy.
Birmingham Alabama Braxton Bragg Comer seventy eight former governor dies at home after prolonged illness.
Attorney General Carlstrom ruled the county cannot abandon state aid roads and must keep them repaired. He delivered opinions to State's Attorneys Walter S. Lamon Paris Edgar county and P. N. Lewis Lawrenceville Lawrence county after Edgar county board sought to abandon the roads and return maintenance to counties. Governor Len Small proclaimed October 9-15 as fire prevention week.
Rail lines will offer fares from all Illinois points and from St. Louis Keokuk Iowa and Hannibal to the state fair. Return limit on tickets is August 29. Dr Janette H Bolles of Denver will lead the children’s clinic at the fair for the Illinois Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons.
In the latest USDA survey the value of Illinois farm land including buildings is 4,199,459,312 dollars. McLean county records the largest land area at 707,262 acres.
Major William J. Butler of Springfield becomes superintendent of the St. Charles state school for boys, succeeding Col. Frank D. Whipp. Whipp is reassigned to head the Hins school for the deaf in Jacksonville.
Judge Louis Fitzhenry ruled that Meadows Manufacturing of Bloomington committed no unfair competition against Maytag of Newton Iowa in the washing machine case. The federal court case consumed a month of court time.
Henry B Rankin a longtime Springfield resident and author of two Lincoln life books died August 14 aged a few months over ninety. He studied law with Lincoln and Herndon as a youth and remained a friend of Abraham Lincoln from age ten.
O. T. Olsen of the Illinois department of agriculture assigns corn borer scouts to outposts in Waukegan Grant Park Watseka Chicago Heights Downers Grove DesPlaines and New Lenox. Infestation findings will be battled with federal aid. A semicentennial public health service celebration is planned for October in Springfield with a health history digest edited by Dr. W. A. Evans Chicago.
State Forester R. B. Miller reports bag worms dominate insect damage to Illinois shade trees this summer. A lead arsenate spray at three pounds per fifty gallons is advised in spring during hatching. it is less effective at other times. Picking bags is laborious and not very effective. Lincoln nearly dueled Gen. James Shields over unflattering letters, with Shields’ duel thwarted by seconds near Alton.
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