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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1925
Page
6
A satirical review notes labor demand alarm among tramps and crowds at presidential receptions. It mocks delays, beauty routines of wives, home town critics, and flappers, while urging more funding for roads and criticizing Senate productivity and youth alimony risks.
A Masonic lodge in an Ohio city deposits 5000 dollars at 6 percent with a 100 year待 note to never touch the funds. By 2025 compound interest would exceed 1 million dollars, illustrating the power of long term savings and regular deposits.
The piece recalls Mellie Dunham, Maine's champion fiddler, signing with a vaudeville outfit. It highlights how audiences pay to hear his skilled old fashioned music and to see a wholesome back home character that evokes cherished memories of earlier, simpler days.
At Boston station in the weeks before Christmas, more than 30 000 gift boxes were sent from natives abroad to relatives in Europe, showcasing a widespread holiday tradition as shipments departed ten days before the holiday season.
The piece notes gifts flowing from across the country abroad and suggests that generous relatives reflect family ties. It argues such attitudes will strengthen Americans as these bonds develop, portraying a positive view of emigrant benefactors and their impact.
The first week of December saw freight car loadings reach 1 020 873, surpassing a million for the first time in December. The text credits rising trade and prosperity, noting that debt concerns and European troubles have not damped the nation’s recovery and welfare since the war.
William Meyers former Burr Oak treasurer now Calumet Park was sentenced to 1 to 10 years for embezzling village funds and is out on a pardon secured by friends. He served 11 months before release and a bonding company covered the losses with good job awaiting.
Homewood board moves to install a complete sewerage disposal plant within a year. McCoy and Mulford surveyed the town while Clifford G. Roe handles legal proceedings and Frederick K. Root designs the special assessments to fund the project.
A syndicate has contracted for 1000 acres south of Steger along the Dixie Highway to Crete, near Cottage Grove avenue. Plans include 200 acres for a golf course and polo field, with remaining parcels of five to twenty acres offered as county estates. Brokers Cowing Bros of Homewood and J C K Lindhout handled details.
Village of Riverdale in Cook County Illinois schedules a special election for January 18 1926 to approve an ordinance authorizing twenty fire station and equipment bonds of 1000 each totaling 20000 with five percent interest payable semi annually. Ballot and polling details set at Village Hall with six am to four pm voting hours.
Form of coupon certifies payment of twenty five dollars on the first day of August February 19-something at Illinois Merchants Trust Company Chicago for interest due on the Fire Station and Equipment Bond dated February 1 1926. Village Clerk.
Section 3 states that bonds pass by delivery unless registered with the Village Treasurer of Riverdale and a memorandum of registration endorsed on the back. After registration only the registered owner or their legal representative may receive the bond.
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