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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1928
Page
3
A newly made English wristlet measures one inch by one and a half and records time day of the week month date and moon phases. The last four records are shown by small circles on the dial.
The Hawaiian Islands total 20 in number and lie over 2,000 miles from the nearest mainland. Of these, nine are inhabited while the remaining eleven are uninhabited.
The Altoona Tribune notes a young man visiting a girl often encounters a suppressed giggle from her brothers and sisters in adjoining rooms. The line implies cautious social reception and family presence as a subtle test of interest.
The text notes that sugars and starches are more readily assimilated and digested than fats and, in proportion to intake, raise body weight more quickly.
Christmas day activities include engagements, dinners, and visits by Lansing residents. Frieda Wiers announced in engagement news. families such as the Holmes, Bultema, Schroeder, Bertram, and Thort shared meals and greetings with relatives in South Holland Hammond Oak Glen Detroit and Dallas.
Rev A Karreman leads Sunday services with 9 30 a m communion and a Holland sermon on The Beauty of the Church English sermon at 2 00 p m Gathered Up No Sunday school Christian Endeavor led by Mrs J Van Ramshorst Old Year's Eve service at 7 30 with No More Time New Year's morning at 7 80 a m God Our Keeper subject plans listed.
Chicago suburbs closed November 1928 with a 28 percent rise from a year earlier and 44 percent ahead of October. S. W. Straus & Co. reports gains in Aurora Calumet City Chicago Heights Harvey Homewood Joliet East Chicago Hammond Whiting and Gray. The survey predicts brisk building activity for the next 60 to 90 days as suburban volume lifts the metropolitan totals.
Coatesville Pennsylvania Witkens Steel plans to install the first American steel mill low temperature coal distillation plant to produce coal tar by products for synthetic pipe stems furniture resins and anti knock gasoline. The Lukens plant will distill 560 tons of coal daily with new furniture and building material uses foreseen.
Nineteen year old Josephine Schaefer of Norfolk decided to become a pilot after a Fourth of July plane ride at Humphrey. She saved $600 by working twelve hours daily as a waitress in Fremont to pay a 50 hour flying course tuition. Her father relented and bought her flying togs.
A terse editorial note from the Terre Haute Star laments that estimates of a financial shortage tend to grow the longer they are discussed, suggesting caution in projecting deficits and highlighting the risk of inflated figures.
Sir Esme Howard the British ambassador to Washington will be told by the senior rep of the six power talks to reopen negotiations on reparations. He will seek to extend an invitation for U S experts to join the discussions if the United States agrees.
A six passenger Fairchild cabin monoplane on an Interstate Air Lines route from Atlanta to Chicago crashed after takeoff from Marrfield Chattanooga. Four men perished including pilot Raymond D. Harris and pilot Charles H. Shield. One survivor, William Rozar, escaped with minor injuries. The plane struck a house roof, then a tree and garage before stopping.
Private Joe Koziera twenty one of Cleveland Ohio a member of troop F Fourteenth cavalry was burned to death in a fire that destroyed the headquarters troop barracks at Fort Des Moines Iowa.
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