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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1925
Page
3
Two bandits robbed the soft drink parlor operated by Edward Lambert Sr at 171st Street and the Dixie Highway in Hazelcrest. They fled with $25 after Lambert had just drawn $1,000 from a Harvey bank to cash checks.
Acre sale at Phoenix records the transfer of 23.67 acres on the southeast corner of Vincennes road and One Hundred Fifty-ninth street adjoining Harvey on the east. Harold H Hipple sells to Sam E Kliefield for 42606 with 18000 or 1800 per acre. R A Lane of George A Fleck broker arranged the deal for investment.
The Herald and Examiner previews Mildred Barbour’s Hearts Aflame, a tense American life story about a brilliant and beautiful woman. The piece questions modern life’s unrest and nerves while praising the novel’s speed and intensity.
A new sanitary district was voted in Cook County with a 3 to 1 approval last week in Matteson. The district covers southward suburban territory along the Illinois Central, bounded by Vollmer Road Olympia Fields Cicero Avenue Western Avenue and Richton line. Three sanitary commissioners will be chosen, sewers planned for spring, and Matteson Mayor Herman Stege offers Matteson water until the district secures an adequate supply.
Postmaster Arthur C. Lueder and Henry C. Smale report improved public cooperation for early mailing. 300 additional carriers will join to handle peak Christmas mail, with no delivery on Christmas Day and the heaviest pre Christmas day. Citizens urged to mail for out of town by December 15 and within Chicago by December 20 to avoid disappointments.
The Salton Sea in Southern California arose as a temporary lake in 1905 and 1906 when water backed up from the Colorado River through an irrigation canal near Yuma, Arizona, flooding the Imperial Valley region.
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