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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1917
Page
2
Pastor Reinhold Liebe in Berlin Cathedral argued that Germany’s acts of punishment against other nations are a form of charity. He claimed divine love is shown through suffering and chastisement for salvation.
Announced by the Pullman Gar Works the promotion of James P. Carey to assistant general superintendent of the local plant. Carey, long time general foreman of the big shops, succeeds William J. Dickinson who left for Dunbar Manufacturing Co. Other shifts include resignations and promotions across freight and finishing departments.
London reports a Deutsche fageszeitung advertisement offering fifty Polish workers in exchange for an equal number of other workers. The notice neutralizes persons as cargo and drew Socialist critique, calling the practice a form of human cattle-like treatment and slavery.
A reflective sentiment explores limitless benevolence as a metaphorical tree that grows beyond sight, spreading branches far into the sky and beyond. The quotation attributed to Saadi frames charity as boundless.
Mary R. Parkman recalls Edward Livingston Trudeau's youth in Paris and New York. A mixed American-French upbringing shaped his sense of national identity as he clung to American pride and quizzical views on language. The piece highlights childhood pranks and rebel feelings at the Lycee Bonaparte and on the Paris playground.
The telephone, not poker or cinema, is called the chief American habit with about 80 million calls daily in 1916. The iPhone era is far off, but the telephone reshaped manners, reducing solitude and forcing constant availability for both social and business needs.
A summary of the 1787 Philadelphia Convention where delegates initially tasked with revising the Articles of Confederation chose to draft an entirely new constitution. It notes Washington presided, the signings on September 17, 1787, and the sequence of state ratifications from Delaware on December 7, 1787 to Rhode Island in June 1790.
Help wanted ads seek girls and women for steady work with daily wages from 1.60 to 1.90 at Asbestos Shingle Co Riverdale. Additional listings call for light manufacturing positions at Black Productts Co Riverdale and for an experienced lady stenographer at Austin Manufacturing Co Harvey.
A collection of real estate notices lists for sale and rent options near Riverdale and Thornton township. Items include a corner lot east of 147th and Panhandle tracks for 1000 dollars, small farm opportunities within 15 miles, a 16 acre farm with asparagus and a 7 room brick house, a 20 acre truck farm with house and storage, and several highlawn and Atlantic street lots priced at 175 to 200 dollars. Also offers secondhand houses, a blacksmith shop, and farm rental inquiries.
Miscellaneous listings show hogs for sale aged 150 to 250 pounds with 830 head from J Langhout Homewood Illinois plus hogs at 1.50 per 100 pounds above wholesale with 14 cents per pound butchering from Vaughan Farm Hazel Crest. Also organs billiard table furniture horses and farm offers plus land share for crop at The Pointer office in Dolton and 45 by 100 foot lot with cottage in Dolton.
The article notes many famous individuals had young mothers. It cites Abraham Lincoln whose mother was twenty five at his birth and Napoleon whose parents were twenty three and nineteen respectively. Pasteur, Spencer, Faraday and Mill are also mentioned as having mothers under thirty.
The text describes prehistoric cliff dwellers using bone knives from deer, polished and sharp. Household utensils included pottery jars and fiber casks coated with a varnish like under modern finishes. It notes cave dwellers existed in many eras, and the Horites took their name from living in caverns.
Mary E. Tuesdale Camp No 8142 of the Royal Neighbors of America meets the first and eighth Tuesdays each month in the Dalton Village Hall. Officers listed include Josephine McLaughlin Oracle Lula Berger Recorder and Pauline M Slaughter Resstven.
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