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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1925
Page
3
A comic tale of Bill Johnson plotting a New Year’s Eve ruse at the Palace hotel. He plans to present a heart to Miss Jenkins in the dark then to his wife, but a lighting mishap exposes the scheme. He resolves to mend his ways after narrowly escaping embarrassment.
The Corn Products Refining company plant reopened after 20 months idle in Kansas City Missouri. The facility employs between 700 and 900 workers and processes about 20 000 bushels of corn daily.
E. J. Thompson assistant cashier of the defunct Citizens State Bank of Eagle Grove pleaded guilty to embezzling 250000 dollars and received a 20 year prison term in Clarion Iowa.
J B Eastman, appointed by President Wilson, leads minority opposition on railroad consolidation and financing and will chair the Interstate Commerce Commission under the rotation system.
Three men were injured when an acetylene gas tank exploded on the U S 8 Florida now in dry dock at the Charleston navy yard.
Cardinal Mercier underwent surgery for a stomach lesion. Emerging from ether at noon his pulse was 80 and temperature normal. Surgeons reported the patient in satisfactory condition.
Fire damages a Decatur plant estimated at 100000 dollars. Peoria votes on boxing in the next general election. Monmouth College to receive 100000 dollar bequest for a memorial arts building. Delinquent boys photography banned in St Charles School for Boys. Urbana hosts State Home Bureau conference January 19 to 21.
A reflective piece portrays New Year’s Eve noise as fog muffles quarrels between cats and neighboring cries. The narrator, unsettled by disturbances, contemplates sleep, mediation, and personal patience amid a quiet, wintry night in 1925.
River Falls Wisconsin Charles D Parker aged ninety eight is dead at his home. He was the last survivor of the Lost Republic of Indian Stream and a former lieutenant governor of Wisconsin. Born in 1827 he grew up in New Hampshire and helped establish the Indian Stream Republic before it joined the United States.
Sergei Yessinin, once Duncan's husband and a Russian poet, killed himself. He and Duncan faced entry denial in New York in 1922 before a special board allowed admission. Yessinin later served time in Moscow for alleged criticisms of the Soviet regime.
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