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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1915
Page
5
An Electrical World clipping urges American industry to ramp up after the war. It envisions a flood of exports, a surge in advertising and factory expansion, and calls for U.S. manufacturers and salesmen to seize the moment of peace to fuel a booming business era.
A scattered set of brief notices from Vernon Pennsylvania to Chicago and Post Texas. A spontaneous combustion in dried cheese started a house fire in Vernon but was stopped in time. In Petrograd secret distilleries grew after vodka ban. Miss Elizabeth M. Kilbourn died at 86 as the first woman to operate a sewing machine stick. Mrs. Robert S. Brownell, a Civil War veteran, died in Oxford New York. In Chicago Ben Rosenstein’s death revealed a transgender story and a wife at the bedside. The Fashion Show spotlighted smoking apparel for women at Blackstone Hotel. Post Texas claims the town hosts the world’s most complete cotton factory producing cloth from wagon-supplied cotton.
A poem-like piece recounts a crooked man selling fake stock food and making a crooked sale. He is jailed in a pressed steel jail as punishment for his actions.
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