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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1930
Page
4
A satirical roundup notes Americans faulting majorities, water use, unpaid bills, and fast living. It cites tree sitters, radio arguments, love songs in cars, and a congress with 3000 pages while pleaing slow pay debts. It cites Illinois population 7,607,684 and wealth around 30 billion dollars.
An article notes 31,000 deaths from autos last year but highlights progress in reducing accidents in industry and schools. It warns that auto fatalities persist due to reckless and incompetent drivers and calls for decisive measures to keep such drivers off public highways.
A Book Publishers Research Institute study of 27 prominent men shows they read about two hours daily and favor biographies of leaders. It argues constant reading aids advancement, with the newspaper named as the first source to learn what has happened locally and globally.
Freeman Gosden and Charles J Coreil will continue the Amos n Andy feature on NBC for another year. Millions of listeners would be melancholy if the program ended as the sketch satirizes everyday human foibles with clean humor. The nation praises the clever writers for bright entertaining humor.
The United States grows over half a percent per year while the world gained 35 million people from 1925 to 1928, about one percent annually. With undeveloped regions and scientific management, world food production could rise to meet population growth.
The piece argues drought afflicted regions still face heavy losses with 300 counties severely affected. It calls for government and state action to share burdens and prevent farmer ruin, urging generosity when natural conditions fail.
Five year old Calvin Morris saved four year old Bobbie Nielsen from a treacherous fall into Thatcher mill creek. Bobbie toppled from a bridge and drifted toward a 230 foot waterfall before Calvin reached the bank and pulled him to safety until his father could pull them free.
In a multipart dialogue a Hammond lawyer breaks the news that Michael ONeill, tied to Drogheda, has inherited a fortune from Aunt Mary who married Richly. ONeill, curious and defiant, questions the claim while awaiting a wallop of the foreman amid a rough crew.
The superintendent of a chemical works fires a smoker after paying one week’s wages of thirty dollars, citing rules. The man retorts he cannot be fired, claiming he is employed by the gas company reading meters. A separate quip has a doctor patient exchange about drinking hot water before breakfast.
An Irish correspondent bought twelve collars at a clearing sale and a bottle of indelible ink. He marked one collar with his name and labeled the remaining eleven collars Dit to.
A playful talk of modern comforts and marriage plans unfolds with a General Furniture clerk offering “only a little down” for a nest. A patient caller seeks a number, a young woman asks for a pretty baby name, and a wry note muses on unsigned letters and womanhood.
A farmer boasts of waking before anyone else. He sneaks to his neighbor at 2 AM to catch him, but the neighbor’s wife reveals the husband was up early as well and is now missing. The tale ends with the neighbor possibly deceiving the boastful rival.
Sergeant John Orgel of the county highway police was injured in a two vehicle crash on 147th street in Midlothian on Sunday August 17. He suffered a dislocated shoulder and related injuries and was taken to Ingalls Memorial hospital. The other driver Alfred Buerger of Chicago was arrested for reckless driving and later released on bond. This marks the second hospital visit for Orgel within three months after a June explosion during a raid fatally affecting Officer Walter Remillard.
The region saw Chicago erect the first double deck streets Wacker Drive and Michigan Avenue and adopt an underground electric transmission system. Miss Isabel Bevier became the University of Illinois first woman professor emeritus and later full-time, marking progress in academia. Illinois exports reached 288 million in 1929, Bloomington pioneered brick paving, and Chicago received its first coal shipment in 1841 aboard the schooner General Harrison.
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