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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1916
Page
4
Rates listed by lines: five lines or fewer cost 25 cents per issue, two issues 35 cents, four issues 50 cents. For ten lines and more, one issue costs 50 cents, two issues 75 cents, four issues 1.00 dollar. Cash accompanies each order.
Multiple real estate notes show for rent and for sale properties in Dolton Riverdale and Voltoun. Listings include four room cottages on E 188th Street and 412 144th Place with inquiries listed, a five room brick basement cottage on Lincoln Avenue Dolton, and several plots on Kanawha Avenue Voltoun with prices and contacts. Also offered are 40 acre farm near Lansing, lease on 20 acres in Riverdale plus farming equipment and local agents J C Vagien A Keech Emil Henroseoth and H Zimmer.
Various items advertised for sale including home grown potatoes from Wm Bachman and a milking cow with calves, live pigs and shade trees from Vaughan Farm, plus 50 loads of black soil and an iron safe. Also a 170 gallon underground gasoline tank, a piano, household furniture, two 110 volt motors, a new mahogany piano and bench, oats and straw, and a typewriter in exchange for a bicycle. Also a pearl rosary found on 37th street Riverdale. Call or inquire at The Pointer office.
Used cars of current makes including Studebaker Buick Rambler Peerless Stoddard Dayton offered with guarantee and service. Late models feature electric starter and lights with prices from 175 to 750 dollars. Duplex Motor Car Company at 1148 S Michigan Ave Roseland advertises repairs by Theo Wilmer and Loujana age 36 8.
The state game and fish conservation commission reports major growth at Spring Grove hatchery. It plans to mass produce pike perch, bass, brook and rainbow trout and distribute millions of fry, aiming for lower costs than federal programs while stocking northern waters and planning a Chicago area facility.
A partial timetable note shows Saturday service with a 2.20 fare to Oakaale and a return. It repeats the Riverdale 134th Street schedule with small one minute differences each way. The fragment references Chicago & Eastern I X and a Saturday-only pattern.
Eastbound and northbound Panhandle schedules list departures at 7.00 AM 7.59 AM 9.45 AM 4.00 PM 5.03 PM and 7.43 PM with DalTon similar times differing by two minutes each direction per the fragment.
The designer sought a more plastic medium than traditional stained glass and found it in glass painting or transparent enameling. This method gave wider freedom to the pencil, though it could not match the color mastery of older styles, as stained glass yields to painted glass.
Henry J. Dillner conducts a public sale at 701 Lincoln Ave Dalton on Wednesday February 23 starting 10 00 a m. Items include horses cow heifer farm wagon cultivators harness seed drill and various tools with cash only on small sums and one year credit on larger notes bearing interest at 6 and 7 percent if paid when due. Denry Sciisewski is owner. Henry Dillner acts as auctioneer.
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