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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1911
Page
4
Advertising rates and notices for Riverdale Dolton and Dalton appear, listing village boards and lodge schedules, church and civic groups, school board meetings, and local jokes. The page mixes community notices, advertising rates, meeting times, and light humor.
Structural steel contracts in the west reach 30 000 tons while one firm holds 11 000 tons of ongoing work. Chicago prospects and liberal railroad purchases boost sentiment as finished products edge higher. December output drops, yet consumption nears production, lifting expectations for rail and general markets. Grand Crossing Tack closes 10 000 tons and 16 000 tons of rail orders are booked.
A column of diverse listings selling items and real estate. Trombone with case priced at 6000 dollars. Dal ton and Riverdale homes and lots offered with cash terms. Shotgun and pointer dog for 17 50 and 5 dollars respectively. Rubber tired runabout and cook stove for sale. Land, cottages, and building lots offered in Riverdale and Dalton with terms. Real estate ads urge readers to place notices in The Pointer office for buyers and sellers.
The article notes that starting 1911 on Sunday, the first day of week month and year, is rare for decades to begin on Sunday. It lists past instances in 1511 1361 1651 1741 1871 and projects future ones in 1961 2051 2141 2271 2311, with a caution about Julian calendar limits.
The Federation’s annual meeting at the Business Men’s Association rooms in Roseland re elected John C. Finn as president Oscar L. Brown as recording secretary G E Q Johnson as corresponding secretary and F Knoll as treasurer The sanitary committee report was accepted and a new committee will push a branch of the County hospital in the South End All clubs in the federation were represented and praise was given for last year’s work
A quotation urges discretion in handling grand undertakings. It warns that confiding in few secures support, while aiding the base invites risk and erodes prior favors. The text contrasts feasting companionship with seriousness in action and cautions against relying on mean individuals.
Women outnumber men in a Sicilian village stage a post church chase of all unmarried men. The target are beaten until they promise marriage, though the vows are often false and tied to the next Christmas season.
Mistletoe in Oklahoma is rarely on oak trees but almost always on swamp or water elms. These elms grow in lowlands and along river banks where the parasite thrives without apparently harming the host tree. Country Life notes this distinctive pattern.
A friend remarks clerks are amused when the great merchant is told his wife just visited. The merchant jokes that her visit amuses his staff as she bosses him around. The item also notes New Zealand has one of the world’s lowest death rates.
Excerpt notes two kinds of love as eternal forces. The soul seeks heavenly communion of hearth while the body seeks sensory delight. It asserts one cannot fully live without feeling both kinds.
Fragmentary OCR shows numbers and times from North Riverdale transit, including early morning and afternoon hours with fare digits. No coherent sentence or event context available to describe a full headline.
Jack Slughes, once a noted pitcher for South Chicago and the Whiting Rays, killed himself in Whiting Indiana last week. He was a familiar face to local baseball fans who regret his passing.
A quip centers on a mother asking about her child’s school troubles and a husband dismissing concerns with a suggestion of patent brain food, prompting discussion on overused remedies for common educational difficulties.
A humorous exchange from Stray Stories features a young woman asking about the difference between firmness and obstinacy. Her fiancé replies that firmness is a noble female trait, while stubbornness is a lamentable male flaw.
A fragment quotes Lavater: the more one speaks of himself the less he likes to hear another talked of. The remark appears as a brief reflection on vanity and attention in daily life.
Hyman Lavinkind of the California Liquor House at 3106 East 92nd Street South Chicago received a two year federal sentence to Leavenworth Kas and a $5000 fine by Judge K M Landis for violating national revenue laws A motion for appeal was filed and Lavinkind and other sentenced defendants remain free while hoping for a settlement by compromise The dispute centered on what defines an original package with Lavinkind claiming ignorance of a four gallon jug being original and the government arguing the jug required stamping and diligence in purchase and sale
Daily service notes show Saturday only and Sunday only runs with “Daily, No. 67” leaving 47th Street at 5 57 a.m and arriving at South Holland at 6 45 a.m.
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