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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1936
Page
2
Divine services Sunday August 30 at 10:45 a.m. in English and 30 in German. sermon on proper training of children. St Paul Lutheran school offers religious instruction and announces the installation of Mr William Bloom as teacher. Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. and new school year begins September 8 at 6 a.m.
Mil ton Engelhardt, theological student, will preach next Sunday August 30 with the sermon titled Two Debtors. Loyalty Day observed. Group Leaders urged to attend. Rev Greenholt to preach September 6, his last sermon, and Rev Keller returns September 8 with a new sermon September 13. Ladies Aid and Service League meetings scheduled September 2 at local homes.
St. Marys Church at 810 East 137th Street Riverdale lists Masses on Sunday at 7 00 9 00 and 11 00 a m Pastor Rev John N Weiler notes these convenient hours allow all to attend Holy Mass Each service emphasizes faithful attendance as a weekly duty to God and the faith community.
Corner Grant and Sheridan Sts. Rev. Lee Ernest Coleman pastor. Church school at 9:45 a.m. worship at 11:00 a.m. Guest speaker The Rev. Francis Phowsus DD. Everyone welcome.
Rev Leopold Schneider presides at Sandridge M E Church with morning worship and Sunday school, plus Mission Society, prayer, official board, and choir meetings listed. Washington report notes Wm Phillips sworn in as U S ambassador to Italy replacing Breckenridge Long who resigned due to illness.
Dr. W H Lucas reports a 36-year-old farm woman delivered a ten pound daughter and five stillborn babies with one healthy survivor Adeline Speichinger case. Two men plead guilty to operating a torture chamber for accident insurance claims in Los Angeles. A mine collapse near Moberly traps and frees workers with two dead and two alive. A vault door in Shawnee stubbornly locks as heat rises. Lt Com Frank Hawks builds a new high speed plane. US fleet returns from maneuvers with 20 000 aboard. Minnesota governor Floyd Olson dies. Hjalmar Petersen acts as governor. Queen Mary claims transatlantic speed record reaching four days seven hours twelve minutes.
Overseer Wilbur Glenn Voliva of the Christian Catholic church at Zion Illinois predicted no more rain in 1936 during a vesper service. Hours later two inches of rain drenched the area, contradicting the forecast.
Dr. Harry J. Mager and Dr. John A. Dykstra will occupy the pulpit at Bethany Reformed Church Roseland next Sunday morning at 10:00 and evening at 7:30. The Senior choir leads morning music and the Young People's choir sings in the evening.
A Maryland rule declares it illegal for a woman to rifle her husband’s pocketbook while he is asleep. The law illustrates the era’s domestic conduct expectations and women’s legal exposure in private spaces.
A Tribune style Q&A session from Springfield presents historical facts about Illinois. Questions cover Indian protection laws, canal costs, De Kalb County early officials, barbed wire invention, early Pullman cars, Dickson Mounds, the first steel bridge, and Douglas’s nickname Little Giant with dates and figures.
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