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Riverdale Pointer

Location

Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Feb 14, 1908

Page

2

Notable Happenings In A Busy Week Worldwide Briefs

A lengthy digest lists events from grand jury indictments against Charles W. Morse and the American Tobacco conspiracy to police raids on a Winnipeg synagogue halting a wedding. It covers naval budget shifts, murders from Minnesota to Boston, fires, mine explosions, plane and rail incidents, political turmoil in Portugal, Hollywood film industry moves, and notable deaths.

New York Charles W. Morse American Tobacco Company Lexington Sharry Shomayim Synagogue Winnipeg Man House Committee On Naval Affairs Bessie Graham Carsonville Minn Charles Boldt Quarles Milwaukee J. A. Hawes Appleton Waterworks Company Appleton Wis Felix Hansberger Anzeiger Providence R. IL United States Smith McPherson Kansas City Frank Harris Boston Lenox Latchford Ont King Edward Hotel Alexandria Hall Empire Lumber Company Post Office Thomas A. Edison Edison Pittsburg Taft Moody Coal Company South Carrollton St. Louis Sausalito Cal Austria Galicia Lemberg Vienna Cracow Creason Hugh Bonner New York Fire Department Cuba Philippines Havana Manila Francis J. Lantry Brookhaven Miss Eli Pigot John W. Bookwalter Millonaire Ohio Burnett Springfield Nice Italy Francis T. Roots First National Bank of Connersville Ind William Abney Marion Ambrose Grogan Frank Blake Manuel Portugal Franco Spain Oporto Carlos Luiz Lisbon Bordeaux Chicago New Liskard Marshall Field Estate Wabash Count Hadik Cornelius Vanderbilt Charles M. Carroll Howe Avenue Congregational Cleveland Anti-Saloon League Fredonia Sir James Laing & Son Sunderland Deptford John W. Oliver Yonkers Statesman Yonkers N. Y Isaac Oliver Sons of Temperance L. C. Hutchins Fort Worth Tex John Gehringer Ida Pansy Brockway Peoria Elvin Newby Valley View Roosevelt W. D. Foulke Frank W. Gould Union Malleable Tron Company Moline Ill Western Illinois Hospital For the Insane Watertown William M. Forrest Nathan Bedford Forrest Memphis Tenn Heath & Milligan Manufacturing Company St. Petersburg Diamond Trust Weaver Birmingham Ala

Defiance Starch Promises Stronger Clothes Finish

A humorous quip opens with winter weather humor then extols Defiance Starch. The copy notes laundry starch requires heavy application to stiffen fabrics, obscuring beauty and wear. It claims Defiance Starch provides greater strength, allowing thinner, better-looking laundry results.

First Advertiser Looks for Early Starch Advertising

The narrator muses on who first advertised a product in history. A farmer suggests a hen as the forerunner to the idea. The piece promotes Defiance Starch as chemical free and safe for fine fabrics with strong stiffening power, reducing usage.

On Diminutives The Sphinx Ponders A Riddle

The Sphinx posed a riddle about a man in love who calls a 200 pound maiden his little girl. With one accord the people gave up a solution.

Boots Too Big for Walking in Bed

An army officer in a native district gifts a Kaffir boy a pair of heavy boots. The boy enjoys them briefly, then wears them only in bed, explaining they are too large and slow him down for walking or running, so he keeps them for sleep.

South Africa Kafir London

Abe and May Felicity Johnson Plan a Modern Wedding

A light mulatto named Abe tells a minister he plans to marry next week and describes wanting a wedding “like white folks” but expects to pay only five dollars. The dialogue shows social comedy on race and customs in a published anecdote from Lippincott’s Magazine.

Abe Lippincott Felicity Johnson

Notable First Meeting Sparks Quiet Exchange

Gussie recalls meeting someone who called her a fool within minutes. Knox responds with a laconic description, saying the man is awfully slow.

Gussie Knox

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