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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1937
Page
3
Sunday services and programs listed for Rev. Leopold Schneider's church starting January 2 including morning worship Sunday school and evening service. Weekday meetings cover Epworth league missionary society prayer and choir events with dates and hosts. Confirmation class and official board session noted for the week.
Rev John N Weiler pastor outlines Sunday Mass hours at 7 00 9 00 and 11 00 a m for St Marys Church on 810 East 137th Street These convenient hours give parishioners chance to attend Mass and perform weekly service to God.
Pastor Phil H Bassler leads services at 11 oclock with Sunday school at 10. Subject is Suffering as a Christian. Sylvester evening at 8. Council meeting January 3 at 8 p m. Senior league January 4 at 8 p m. Ladies Aid January 6 at 2 p m. Choir rehearsal January 6 at 8 p m. Visitors welcome. New Year blessings from Emmanuel.
Bethany Reformed Church at 111th Place and Perry Avenue Roseland hosts a New Year program for all ages. Rev. Harry J. Hager preaches on Trusting God in the Dark on New Year’s Day at 10 a.m. and Finished Business at 10 a.m. with Unfinished Business at 7 30 p.m. The Bible broadcast from station WHIP 1480 Hammond Ind airs at 3 30 p.m.
Our Savior's English Lutheran Church at 138th and Wabash Avenue notes 183 new Sunday school scholars and four teachers joined in the past year and a month under Pastor Kabele. A service on Sunday features morning worship at 10 30 with subject Seekers After Signs and a girl’s choir. The annual congregational meeting follows worship to elect the council and hear reports.
The St Pauls Church at 138th and Leyden Ave in Missouri Synod holds New Year services with a German service December 31 at 7 30 p m English services January 1 and 2 including Lord's Supper. Sermon text Hebrews 13 8, Jesus Christ the same yesterday today and forever, and a blessing to members and friends.
Tahiti, the biggest island in the Society group, runs about 30 miles in length and 18 across at its broadest. The island resembles a figure eight and is ringed by a tocking coral reef. It lies within the French Oceania colony that includes several archipelagos.
The passage outlines a hierarchy of mental ability with morons rated 50 to 70, imbeciles 20 to 50, and idiots 0 to 20. It presents a historical view on IQ categories and their numerical ranges.
The name St Mary le Bow stems from its Norman arches built about 1090 and rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren after 1680. Bow bells number twelve, with a history of donations to ring nightly and a legend linking Richard Whittington to London’s lord mayor. The term cockney evolved from Bow bells to denote Londoners and their speech.
The text explains the term bonus tracing its meaning from Latin good to a gift in England. It notes its early use for life insurance policyholder dividends and surplus distributions. In the United States it described something extra in business circles. After World War I the term applied to soldiers’ additional compensation.
The origin of the painter is unclear with Spain once suspected but now questioned. It is generally conceded painters arrived in the British Isles and Europe about the same period. The English are credited with developing the English pointer. Several breeds contributed to its lineage.
The article recalls Thomas Huxley famed as an evolutionist and his so called Condemned Cell. He kept a private stash of obsolete philosophy and theology books to study what obscurantists taught.
The stratosphere lies roughly six to ten miles above Earth and extends up to about 30 to 50 miles. It is cloudless and has no seasons or weather changes according to the description.
The text recalls Rome as the world's first capitol built on the Capitolium near the temple of Jupiter. At its foundation a skull was found and interpreted as an omen that Rama would become the caput mundi or head of the world.
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