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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1937
Page
3
Practical tips for dress hems, pie crust prep, potato peeling, and kitchen canisters. Recipes include a chocolate nut cookie and a lemon sherbet, with steps for making ice freezer treats. Also notes on baby toys, headaches remedies, galosh grip tape, and a fudge-on-water treat idea for children.
Rock of Ages limestone supports concrete highways dams bridges and countless products. Illinois holds large deposits across northern western and southern counties with quarries and plants producing millions of tons yearly. The stone underpins homes metals paints glass paper sugar and even soda water, with new uses arising regularly.
United Methodists nationwide will hear Dr. ER Stanley Jones speak via NBC next Wednesday February 17. Local Sandridge and First Methodist churches host meetings to listen with WENR or WLS in Chicago airing at 8:30 p.m. CST.
W J C Jones announces stricter parole policy requiring double review of each parolee before release and closer board supervision of employment home and sponsor. Governor Horner says 25 000 balance on motor fuel tax fund wipes out last of 4 0 110 600 debt. Illinois attorney general rules on fines and jury waivers. Police radio system aided flood response and rabies hotspot in Du Page Lake Cook Sangamon. Title unemployment tax payments delayed to April 1, 1936.
Local notes report Thimble Club members meeting at Mrs Towne’s home with eight attendees. Updates include illnesses of two Wilson children, Mrs Gundaker injuring her hip, Elsie Langford’s Los Angeles trip, Lucille Sellin engaged to Lloyd Alcambrac, and a March 3 wedding in Crown Point Chicago Heights.
Harold C Blaney of Swampscott Massachusetts, a restaurant merchant, has frequently been mistaken for President Roosevelt. The likeness was first noted six years ago by a New York boy visiting Swampscott. Blaney is fifty four, compared to the President's fifty five, and is slightly shorter than Roosevelt.
This clipping offers kitchen and garden quick tips such as rice and raisins measurements for dishes, jelly stuffing ideas, and a spring planting spacing rule. It also includes light household observations and a few humor lines.
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