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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1921
Page
6
A presidential proclamation in Washington designates the coming week as Education Week in the United States. The notice appears amid other world events including railway rate moves and international diplomacy debates.
The famed slugger asks New York Yankees owners to pay him $60,000 for the coming season. Reportedly Colonels Huston and Ruppert view the demand favorably.
A survey of Illinois items notes the Mapleton Gun Club formed by trapshooters, Rockford Rotary Christmas party December 22, and a new Eastern Star and Masonic home site costing 750000. Other items cover highway bid rejections, spelling contest eliminations, large university visitation, smallpox vaccination warnings, workers compensation awards, federal aid use, apple and corn crops, lawsuits against ex-treasurers, Masons temple plans, unemployment offices jobs, and regional health statistics.
Former Major General Leonard Wood and W. Cameron Forbes urge maintaining the present status in the Philippines until self rule is mastered. They warn withdrawal would betray Filipinos and harm American interests, noting lingering governance issues and the need for stronger governor general authority. They call for Congressional power to nullify flawed legislation and final presidential decisions in deadlocks.
The Interstate Commerce Commission further suspended reduced coal rates on Henry Ford’s Detroit, Toledo and Ironton line. The original order had set January 1 as the start of rate cuts pending investigation, and the amendment now pushes the effective date to January 31.
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