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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1931
Page
5
The Museum of Science and Industry, founded by Julius Rosenwald, will be housed in Jackson Park's reconstructed Fine Arts Building of the Columbian Exposition. It will showcase a 9 mile exhibit course across six divisions including physics chemistry astronomy geology mining and metallurgy forestry and agriculture motive power and transportation civil engineering and public works printing.
School notes recount Seventh and Eighth Grade health class on home hygiene, the nurse Miss Itter leading fourteen girls toward Child Nurse and First Aid badges, plus a classroom tale of an acorn growing into a log yard to a fine house floor. Also mentions sixth grade percentage review, eighth graders finishing readers with Robin Hood, Ernest building a wooden nut bowl, roll top desks awaiting a top, and a Valentine party planned by third and fourth graders with Toba Casiney and Ray Richter returning after illness.
The service recommends washing raw foods thoroughly and immersing them in a lime solution. Use half an ounce of lime per two gallons of water in a stone jar. The lime bath aims to destroy germs without harming flavor or quality.
President Rubio has been chosen for elevation to the thirty third degree in the Masonic order. A committee of American and Mexican Masons recently called upon him to inform him of the honor.
An official circular dated Feb 1 announces Merle J Reynolds of 10640 Oakley Avenue as Assistant Trainmaster for the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad, with jurisdiction west of Calumet Park and the Stock Yards branch. Reynolds, a Syracuse University graduate, has a long NYC Central lines service record including secretary to the chairman in New York, night clerk in Blue Island yards, chief clerk to general yardmaster, yardmaster at Blue Island and Elsdon, and traveling yardmaster before this promotion. His office will be at the Blue Island yards.
A free lecture on Christian Science will be held next Tuesday evening February 17 at 8:00 in the Sixth Church of Christ, Scientist at 11321 Prairie avenue. John M. Tutt c s b will speak on Christian Science a Religion of Truth Love and Life Triumphant. All are invited to attend.
A fragment reflecting on how youthful energy appears differently with age. The author contrasts admirable spirited distraction with reckless childish acts, noting maturity changes perception and behavior across life stages.
A Sun Janciseo Chronicle note suggests towns could thrive by shedding undesirable residents through strategic schemes. The idea emphasizes selective population loss as a tool for local renewal.
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