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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1920
Page
10
A traveler alighting from a train is accosted by a Negro porter who shouts a hotel invitation and seizes the baggage. The exchange includes racial slang and uncertain responses as the man inquires about nationality. The scene captures a tense encounter in the Southern town.
Narrates neglect of Boston’s early cemeteries after newer grounds opened. Stones were stolen moved and broken as news stones vanished. Copp's Hill site near Ghat North Church saw stones filched to repair chimneys and door steps in the neighborhood.
The Columbus Dispatch asserts that history honors pioneers by being first in beginnings. It uses Adam and Eve, Columbus, and early settlers to illustrate how initial achievements immortalize individuals across generations.
The article describes Bolivia as the world’s coca source, noting local use for narcotic effects, terraced coca cultivation, and processing of leaves into 50 pound bales. It explains export via mules to La Paz where leaves fetch about 47 cents gold per pound and asserts Bolivia manufactures no cocaine.
A quotation presents Sidney Smith's method for chasing gloom with twenty two receipts. Items include bright fire pleasant words and a box of sugar plums on the chimneypiece plus a kettle sim mer ing on the hole as small daily pleasures to banish melancholy.
The Louvre preserves a harp claimed as the world’s oldest, found in an Egyptian tomb and nearly 4000 years old. Other ancient harps date to about 3000 years, while Celtic harpers were highly venerated and treated with great reverence.
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