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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1925
Page
8
South Holland PTA schedules a February 17 meeting at 7 30 PM with A E Paul to speak and several program numbers. A village hall film night featured Poultry and Cattle Diseases with L L Heller addressing the crowd.
Rev. Kuite to lead services at Re formed church next Sunday in Lansing. Jacob Maaskant plans a visit to Oskaloosa Iowa with possible stay if favorable. Mrs. P. E. Lee visited friends in Chicago last Monday. J Spork owns a Nash touring car. Three men posing as government inspectors were arrested and jailed, later handed to authorities. Solomon an Indian student from the University of Chicago spoke at the First Re formed church. D Hook of Highland improves from stomaine poisoning. B Lucas injured in a fall with a broken leg last Sunday night. Fisher of Munster is seriously ill. John DeVries and Miss Florence Schultz wed Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Edw. Horn Jr visiting his parents here.
The text explains relief engraving where ink transfers from pressed surfaces while hollowed areas remain blank. It notes wood engraving as a major form and contrasts line engraving with ink pressed into engraved lines. It defines etching as acid biting and mezzotint as roughening without incised lines.
Saturday features Ed Cobb in Cupid's Rustlers plus Esop's Fables and a comedy. Sunday offers a 2:30 matinee and 7:15 show Billie Rhodes in Leave It to Gerry, Ruth Roland in Haunted Valley. Wednesday and Shursdal present Gloria Swanson in Wages of Virtue, a Legion romance, comedy, and adventure. Also coming Tongues of Flame with Thomas Meighan.
Saturday shows The Measure of a Man with outdoor drama action and a Forbidden Fruit cartoon. Sunday matinee features Inez From Hollywood starring Anna Q Nilsson Lewis Stone Mary Astor with a life and studio view. Tuesday and Wednesday February 17 and 18 present Missing Daughters a thrilling entertaining crime tale with Eva Novak and Eileen Percy.
In loving remembrance of our dear mother Mrs Marie Spelter who died February 15 1928 two years ago Her loving children send this memorial note with affection and gratitude
Cinnamon, the inner bark of a small evergreen native to Ceylon, prized since antiquity for kings and potentates. It is now grown in Java, the West Indies, Brazil, and Egypt, valued for its thin fragrant bark and aromatic oil content, used in cooking and medicines.
The heart can be massaged to restart beating, letting blood flow resume and potentially revive a patient. Surgeons in World War I removed bullets and repaired heart rents, though touching the heart remains delicate due to its temperamental nervous system and the risk of irreparable harm.
The expression roof of the world is applied to the Pamir plateau in central Asia and its Persian name carries this significance.
At St Pauls Lutheran on 188th Street and Leyden Ave services Sunday Feb 15 include German at 9 30 and English at 10 45 am. The English sermon centers on The Power and Dignity of the Divine Word from Numbers 18 25 to 14 10 and discusses how different hearts receive God s Word.
The church announces Lent begins February 25 and invites all to prepare. The Pointer will publish a Lenten services program next week. Sunday school gathers next Sunday at 9 30, with catechetical class during the hour. Preaching at 10 30 titled Our Eternal Safety Demands Nearness to God in This Life. P C Wike, Pastor.
A Sunday night program at Dolton M. E. Church on February 15 features four brief talks by local men on Dolton welfare. Mr. W. G. Schlack will lead singing with solos. the event invites all families to join in boosting the village.
Thornton continues its path to the Division B championship with wins over U High Deerfield and Riverside and ties Deerfield for first. A decisive pair of games against Deerfield at Thornton on Feb 14 could crown Thornton undisputed champions for the season and end a long wait since 1917. Admission 25 and 50 cents, games start 7 30 p.m. Support urged.
Public notice lists Ethel Beira at 535 Main Street with phone Dolton 389 for a sale scheduling from 5 to 9 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday. Contact details provided for inquiries and participation.
Refertilizing soil nitrogen is essential as it quickly depletes. To renew supply commercial fertilizers are used such as ammonium sulfate sodium nitrate and Chile saltpeter.
A quoted reflection on moral persuasion, arguing that violence harms progress while reasoned argument yields lasting gains. It cautions that coercive force may win short term aims but costs long term merit among rational minds. The message emphasizes humane, disciplined debate over force.
A military company named the Oregon Escort was raised by an 1862 act of Congress and placed under Captain M. Crawford to shield emigrants bound for California from attacks by hostile Indians.
Ruskin distinguishes manufacture craft and art. Manufacture uses hands with machines aiding speed, craft blends hands and brain with personal methods and skill, and art unites hands brain and heart producing inner, soulful appeal beyond clever technique.
The quote urges focusing on future tasks while discarding past burdens that still have use. It frames true life as continuous progress and argues that forward momentum is the key to achieving any aim.
A hatchment is a lozenge or square panel showing a titled person’s arms hung cornerwise on a dwelling wall as public notice of the person’s da wise.
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