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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1922
Page
3
A Baltimore reader credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relief from months of backache and weakness. She reports improved sleep and urges other women to try the drug, noting letters from users praising its effects.
The piece profiles Hamilton Fish Jr of New York a congressman who helped draft the 1919 American Legion preamble in St Louis He supports boosting nurse disability compensation from 20 to 50 and urges land reclamation irrigation to aid veterans He was Harvard football captain and led a unit of the Fifteenth New York Infantry in France earning the Croix de Guerre.
Myrtle Wilson, the Spokane Legion post historian, secured $8,000 in pledges to build a new clubhouse. She also serves as advertising manager for the post paper, was a Legion national delegate, and served in the navy at the San Diego government hospital.
Yonkers resident Henry Dwight seeks to trace the roots of American army slang. He doubts the claim that the doughboy phrase originated with a single inventor and cites Custer and Arthur Young as possible precursors. He notes that to tell the world remains unverified and asks for help from demobilized readers.
In Bucyrus Ohio the Legion Park features a war dead memorial tree. Abraham Krotoshinsky, a Test Battalion messenger, departs for Palestine to take a farm offered to him. Fairmont Minnesota honors the Lee C Prentice post with a $25,000 building pledge and $10,000 renovation gift. In Somerville Massachusetts the Legion rescued twenty four lodgers from a YMCA fire and provided clothing and lodging in the post club.
A comic misquote shows Tim the butler misrendering Mrs Smythkins senior’s instruction about a dowager’s presence. When visitors seek the wife’s news he blurts My mistress is out but the owly badger is within prompting bemused reactions and a reminder to report the dowager is at home.
Belshazzar, in Life magazine style, remarks on a film scene and laments a subtitle he considers ruinous, claiming the director deserves praise yet is undone by a weak caption.
A briefing notes that conversation flags alert participants to exercise care in sensitive or risky exchanges. It emphasizes avoiding harmful language and seeking guidance when encountering dangerous content.
A schoolteacher with a strict eye for grammar correcting a reporter on the misuse of secure after he asks if he has secured seats. The exchange unfolds over a theater invitation and reveals a playful clash of language and tone between them.
Ordnance engineers in the United States unveil a new 16 inch 50 caliber naval gun claimed to surpass all existing guns. The weapon measures 69 feet, weighs 840000 pounds and uses 350 pounds of smokeless powder to fire a 2400 pound projectile about 22 miles.
A terse maxim declares it is better to be called an impractical idealist by today’s peers than a fool by the next generation. The line elevates principled stance over short term ridicule and urges durable vision.
Confucius, Latin form of Kung Fu-tse born 651 B C in Lu Shantung, sought reform of the state by teaching princes his maxims of virtue and wisdom. He died 478 B C. His books and those of Memcius and followers shape the Chinese classics guiding education and civil service for 13 centuries.
Jack recounts a near tragedy where Bess neared an electric fan and two bystanders nearly suffocated by powder. The exchange ends with a quip about workers and kickers.
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