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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1921
Page
4
The column ridicules political missteps and social trends from repealed taxes and postmaster fights to fragile reparation claims and border hootch runs. It quips about camel dances and giraff slides while noting robberies, price jumps, highway myths, and the Riverdale Dalton conference scenes as women bargain in The Pointer.
A debate erupts as a critic questions a claimed art prize winning piece. A third observer insists art lies in the act, not the label, sparking argument about true merit and recognition in the gallery scene.
Public safety notice urges Santa be fireproof with a Van Dyke beard. It warns against flames from candles and flammable costumes, recommending safe decorations, electrical lighting, secure trees, and vigilance in churches, schools, and halls to prevent fires and tragedies.
A German medical journal proposes why higher animals lack speech. It cites imitative sounds in birds and primates, suggests infant babbling evolves to conscious speech, and links right-handed use and brain development to vocal capacity. The theory attributes speech emergence to manual activity and motor coordination.
The note suggests bee bone collection could be lucrative in Australia if market demand and profits align, highlighting strong production potential and economic incentive for large scale gathering.
Barnacles long puzzled readers as crustaceans that cling to rocks ships and even whales. Once tied to a goose egg myth the creature proves to be a free swimming crustacean that attaches to bodies and remains unless torn away, with a tiny size that tests the limits of the deep.
Riverdale schedules show east bound times at 8:02 a m and 4:02 p m north bound at 10:11 a m and 6:46 p m for Panhandle service with listed daily departures.
The piece portrays Goethe, famed German poet, touring Saarbrucken Forest. In a series of sketches by John Raymond, he encounters a figure dubbed the Philosopher of Coal, offering philosophical reflections sparked by the landscape and its miners.
A historical sketch of Stauf the Saarbrucken chemist seen by Goethe as the Philosopher of Coal. It traces early coke use, coal tar derivatives, and the rise of modern plants producing dyes, explosives, and chemicals, noting England's wartime shortages and push for self sufficiency.
Whale fat is employed on a large scale in Denmark to produce oleomargarine, reflecting a significant ingredient practice in the Danish margarine industry.
A speaker at the American Pediatric Society argues milk is overused for children aged one to six. He warns against exclusive long term feeding, excess with other foods, and boiling milk which can reduce nutritional value.
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