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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1908
Page
5
Retired lightweight champ Jack McAuliffe befriends Newcastle pug Jumper Howe who confesses he cannot read or write. McAuliffe reads a sweetheart letter aloud but Howe jokes about hiding from hearing it, prompting a humorous clash over English literacy and manners.
An uptown doctor known for blunt speech received a prank call asking for the undertaker. He replied with a dry correction that the caller had missed the address and hung up.
Miss Johanna Thieme of Howell County married William Mitchell at the West Plains poor farm after meeting him at 6 45 p m and proposing at 6 53 p m with Rev D L Settlemeyer conducting the ceremony at 7 10 p m Mitchell’s finances were described as strained and Thieme owned a fine farm.
The Chicago Telephone Company reduced tolls from Riverdale to Hammond Whiting East Chicago and Indiana Harbor. The old rate of 20 cents for three minutes is lowered by half to 10 cents for the same three minute conversation segments.
Percy Plum tries for an hour to reach Miss Peachreen by telephone. She answers with a flustered, teasing reply, chiding him for using the line casually. The dialogue captures a comical miscommunication between two characters.
The Pointer warns Harvey residents after several small pox cases and a city proclamation by Mayor E N Flewelling urging universal vaccination. The piece explains how chicken pox can be misdiagnosed and stresses that small pox affects all ages, with unvaccinated youth at higher risk.
A Missouri town narrative recalls local merchants pressed by mail order rivals. A dry goods dealer, vehicle seller, grocer, and banker fear mail order impact on home trade as town leaders vow to curb it and the editor faces advertiser withdrawal.
The Chicago Milling Company stalls new machinery at Riverdale to raise output. It produces a special flour grade used in iron foundries with a capacity of about sixty tons per day.
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