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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1914
Page
2
Washington Senator Augustus Octavius Bacon of Georgia, long chairman of the foreign relations committee, dies in a Washington hospital after ten days of illness. News touches on Wilson’s cold, congressional inquiries, and varied national events from immigration policy to labor and health concerns.
The Republican state committee of Missouri backed the national committee plan reducing southern representation. Massachusetts Progressive Charles Sumner Bird seeks a third term as governor, while Kansas and New York Progressives plan full state tickets. Theodore Roosevelt is proposed for governor, and Ohio Progressives nominate Garfield for governor and Garford for senator. Nebraska Progressives reaffirm no cross party alliance. Iowa's Henry Vollmer wins a house seat for Democrats. Republicans gain 2,300 as Bulls Moose drop.
An unverified El Paso report claims Gen Jose Ynez Salazar of Mexican federals was killed by an American soldier while attempting to escape Fort Biss. British marines reportedly landed at Vera Cruz with machine guns to protect the British legation in Mexico City. An attack on Lieut Arthur B Cook near Vera Cruz left him slightly wounded, while John Lind is guarded amid security fears. Maximo Castillo, linked to the Cumbre tunnel disaster, has been executed with six followers per Villa’s reports at Juarez.
Personal John H. Harjes, longtime partner of Morgan, Marjes & Co., died in Grasse France after weeks of illness. Edward Plank of the Philadelphia Athletics, after 13 years with Connie Mack, returned his unsigned contract. Dr Rosewell Park, 62, Buffalo surgeon who cared for President McKinley after the shooting, died of heart failure. The Earl of Mintore, planning the Anglo-American exposition, sailed to Europe aboard the Kaiserin Victoria. A murder case involving Anna Atia and a New York sentencing set for March 23.
William Austin of Shelbyville recovered after coughing fits and expelling a small black snake from his throat. He suspects he swallowed it two years ago while drinking from a farm branch. Physicians failed to diagnose, but coughing ceased and health improved after the snake's removal.
The Illinois Farmers' Grain Dealers Association annual convention opens in Ottawa on Tuesday and runs three days. Dignitaries Charles Brand Henry Wallace and M R Myers will speak as representatives from Washington Des Moines and Chicago. Nearly all Illinois counties are expected to attend.
Mr. R M Fleenor of Otterbein Indiana says kidney trouble for 25 years left him unable to work and with bladder inflammation until he tried Dodd's Kidney Pills. After two boxes he recovered and recommends the remedy. Ad includes request for Household Hints music and recipes, free.
German leather workers describe a new leather processing method that saturates hides with hot oil then kneads and rolls them to produce a waterproof, tenacious material like tortoiseshell. The process is claimed to be almost incompressible and potentially valuable for arts and electrical work, possibly thicker than natural hide.
A Washington Star quip recalls a hunter who never shoots. He enjoys the ritual of returning home to a family that welcomes him alive, finding value in the cheerful fuss rather than the hunt itself.
A humorous exchange questions a friend with anarchistic tendencies now employed at an automobile factory. The punch line notes he loves his job because all he has to do is blow up the tires.
A veteran teacher describes coffee poisoning from years of use and credits Postum with dramatic health improvements. The letter promotes Postum as a coffee substitute available in Regular and Instant forms and urges readers to request The Road to Wellville.
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