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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1909
Page
3
A couple skiffs along a lagoon discuss poverty and identity while debating how well they know each other. He reveals theories about heredity and education as they joke about food, cooking movements, and shared future plans, ending with the savor of ham drifting from a nearby campfire.
A man breaks an iron bar with both hands in a display of strength last night. Another person boasts breaking four men with one hand, adding to the spectacle and bravado of the scene.
Illinois brief items report clergy editor appointment in Evanston, a veteran journalist and multiple deaths in Mount Vernon and Springfield, a will filing in Carlyle, indictments dropped in Chicago, a bank merger rumor, a fatal mine burn in Rockford, and various local happenings from Wheaton to Noble County with new schools, party efforts, and marriages.
A garbled collection of ad-like lines and quotes includes health tonic recipe claims for a half pint whiskey plus syrups, a statement from Plato on politics, a claim of piles cure with PAZO OINTMENT, Fielding on riches, and a note about Lewis' Single Binder cigars.
A free illustrated booklet titled The Truth About Peruna is offered by The Peruna Co. in Columbus Ohio and will be mailed postpaid to interested readers.
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