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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1919
Page
4
An observer at a manufacturers convention notes factories fear losing orders due to reduced production and irregular labor. Prices rise to deter orders while demand remains strong. The path to curbing profiteering lies in boosting output, not legislation, so supply outpaces demand and prices fall.
A Franklin style appeal lists Sears Roebuck, Montgomery Ward, Carson, Pirie Scott and others versus home merchants. It asks who helped when sick or unemployed and urges readers to support local shops to aid churches, ministers, and the needy amid rising trolley fares and city hardship.
A delivery horse laid down across trolley tracks after a long day, drawing a crowd and a police response. A vet said the horse was tired and would recover momentarily, while a bystander argued with him. The horse rose, shook, and resumed work, leaving onlookers amazed at a horse seemingly thinking.
Raphael Pumpelly recounts a humorous yet poignant incident at the Whitney home in Northhampton Massachusetts. A South Seas missionary couple stayed with the Whitneys and after a college songs session the wife stormed out amid a quip about cannibalism leading to her first husband’s fate. The piece also cites Forestry Magazine statistics on Italy’s land area and forest cover.
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