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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1910
Page
7
A playful verse from Little Men and Women ponders being upside down. The speaker imagines a humorous Japanee figure hanging in the sky above a peaceful town with a church steeple, questioning reality while enjoying whimsy.
A guide to simple eye experiments reveals why finger and tree images double when viewed separately. Techniques show blind spots, apparent motion, and afterimage ghosts with colored papers and neutral backgrounds.
The article describes making water color Noahs ark cutouts three to four inches long with an attached invitation envelope on the back. Guests attend in simple animal costumes, such as an elephant with gray muslin and ear cap, or a lion with a tawny domino and tissue fringe.
A brief note on physical strength traces a youth of seventeen lifting 280 pounds, rising to 320 pounds at twenty, and reaching 365 pounds by age thirty-one, marking the peak of strength in early adulthood.
The piece highlights famed inventors who began work in their teens. Marconi started at fourteen with crude wireless gear, Samuel Compton built the spinning mule by nineteen, Eli Whitney conceived the cotton gin at thirteen, and Sir John Brown, at sixteen, envisioned a conical spring buffer for railways that later brought wealth.
In Paris a schoolgirl family story shows pupils raising funds to support a mother who must stay home to nurse and care for her baby. The children pledged to cover as much of her lost earnings as needed to keep the child in school.
The text notes that after the thirty-first year the strength begins to decline, occurring very slowly at first and indicating a gradual waning of vitality or capacity as time progresses.
Luncheon ham is prepared by grinding the ends with a finely chopped button onion and a touch of minced parsley, mixing with butter and hot liquid, simmering briefly then serving on toast. Curly bacon is half cooked, curled, skewered, and broiled, while a grated American cheese with ham makes a hot fried sandwich. Frozen or baked slices stay tender when baked with milk, and shredded ham in currant jelly sauce with sherry offers a sweet savory option for toast.
A New York inventor creates a safety belt and two strand cable device to prevent falls for window washers. The system anchors to a belt rings and a hook, letting workers and even cautious homeowners secure themselves from 18 to 20 story heights.
A baker describes preparing a baked apple pudding dish. Core and slice juicy apples, season with cinnamon and nutmeg, add butter, top with soft biscuit dough, bake hot, and serve with hard or foamy sauce.
Three tablespoons finely ground coffee go in the top of a French coffee pot and half a pint boiling water is poured over it. Do not let the coffee boil. once it runs into the lower chamber, repeat through the top four or five times. Keep a cover for the spout and scald the pot before use to keep it bright and free from grounds. This amount suits a small family and yields small cups.
A historic recipe instructs to sift flour with cream of tartar and saleratus, add salt, mix with buttermilk until not stiff, knead briefly, and bake on a buttered pan. Roll dough to half inch thickness, keep biscuits apart, yielding fine grain biscuits and a small loaf of bread.
Reports include Al Kennedy of Abingdon wounded in a Monmouth shooting with Rance Downey under arrest. possible female involvement suspected. In Tamaroa the Perry County Teachers Association met with Elmo W. Lee presiding and several educators presenting on primary to high school matters. Also notes on Bud Duvall shooting incident in Shelbyville, a divorce suit in Carlinville, and other state-wide items.
The family in this cartoonish scene nitpicks the fiancée at every angle. The only redeeming feature is noted as she has no relatives on earth, prompting the father to urge the engagement despite the chorus of doubts.
An 1880 testimonial from Hiram E. Carpenter of Henderson New York describes twenty years of psoriasis with severe skin cracking and pain. After suffering and failed treatments, he used Cuticura remedies Resolvent Ointment and Soap plus baths and relief followed in six weeks, with no recurrence reported by 1910.
A cryptic brief reflects on love and loss with a wry nod to marriage and in laws, mentioning a mother in law as a burdensome presence while keeping a humorous tone about personal connections.
A quirky remark on an actress defying norms by painting first to draw later. An advertising line promotes Dr. Pierce's Pellets as small sugar coated tablets to regulate and invigorate the stomach liver and bowels without causing griping. The text evokes angels counting beads of perspiration rather than tears.
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