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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1920
Page
3
Mrs Eva H Shay of Garnett Kansas writes that after a difficult pregnancy and nervous breakdown she used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She describes relief after two doses and continued use through five bottles leading to recovery and good health and continues to recommend the medicine.
A friend is one who is truer to me than I am to myself. True friendship should push us toward self improvement and strength in gratitude for its gift. Few will bother to crack the shell of a man determined to live in one.
A bank in Harmon Lee County was robbed of 300 dollars after safeblowers wrecked the vault. Illinois Public Utilities Commission grants higher rates to 39 southern towns. Smallpox deaths are rare with three in eight thousand cases. Illinois livestock commerce shows record cattle and total stock movement valued in millions. Health service probes Sunnybrook Farm conditions. Hardin Calhoun counties lack rail service but have river access. Apple crop praised in state but home orchards drive production. Illinois Tuberculosis association names Palmer president. Victory medal distribution tour planned across many Illinois cities. Lee County TB site near Dixon purchased. Fire losses at Galesburg plant 200000 dollars. Barn fire near Bismarck kills elderly farmer. Library consolidation starts in Springfield. Education official convicted of assault. University of Illinois plans 60000-seat stadium in Chicago. Army engineers project 1921 river, harbor, and canal funding. Mrs. Harris B Hamiston wills 1 million to Pontiac for charities and parks. Harding Coolidge electors win Illinois by record margin. governor Len Small and U S Senator McKinley results noted. Constitutional convention to finish basic law before holidays. Chicago voters tally细 three Democratic congressmen margins. injunctions against saloons pursued. Prohibition case includes 30 suspects and Chicago police sergeants among indicted.
S Leonard Baron describes simple cardboard spectacles with two inch disks and copper wire nose pieces. Variants use central pins, horizontal slits, or vertical slits to alter line perception, enhancing distant print or edge clarity while distorting horizontal or vertical structures.
A New York correspondent describes handcuffed prisoners led through Grang Central station toward Sing Sing. The scene shows daily routine, timid youths facing a harsh system, with lawyers offering brief comfort while relatives are barred from farewells.
Miss Deloria a Dakota Indian woman wrote directed and presented The Fifty Years Trail in an Episcopal Church convocation in the West. She leads Indian girls activities for the YWCA and plans more pageants with English and Indian prologues.
A reflection on how admiration for a phrasing method shapes a writer's own diction. It notes that natural style arises from heart not head and that similar tastes lead to similar expression rather than deliberate imitation.
A reflective line compares worldly friendship to trees shedding leaves in autumn. As long as maintenance lasts, friends gather, but in the winter of need they abandon the speaker, leaving them bare. The note attributes the thought to Warwick.
The Ohio State Journal reports varying growth rates of fingernails across fingers with the thumb growing slowest and the middle finger growing fastest, reflecting differences in nail growth across digits.
The note invites attendance at a mothers welfare meeting on Wednesday. It mentions a famed chef will speak on The Decay of Cookery. The speaker promises the talk will be helpful, while a humorous aside in the source contrasts frugality with pig feed.
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Anuric as a remedy for back pain and kidney sluggishness caused by uric acid. It claims pills clear thick excretions, reduce nocturnal disturbances, and improve overall health, urging readers to send ten cents for a trial package to Dr. Pierce's Invalids Hotel in Buffalo. Mrs. S. J. Anderson testifies to better sleep after use.
A patient praises Eatonic, claiming two boxes improved his stomach health. The ad touts Eatonic as a modern remedy for acid stomach bloating and indigestion, asserting it supports natural digestion and full strength from meals with big box low cost.
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