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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1908
Page
5
John Praise, now occupying part of the Pullman Farm on Indiana Ave north of the Calumet River, plans to enter the milk business. William Neimeyer is building a wagon bearing Praise’s name. Praise has sold milk from his residence for years and aims to develop a strong trade with his practical experience.
A humorous verse attributed to Dot contrasts boys and girls with playful lines. It riffs on gender roles from a child’s viewpoint, noting boys wear out everything but soap and imagining a world of girls. It ends with playful religious references about creation.
The Edison workshops heads of departments held their second annual banquet in Newark New Jersey on Thomas A Edisons sixty first birthday. The lone toast celebrated the old man with Edison declaring electricity has boundless development and a future master science awaiting mankind. He foresaw two centuries hence people viewing current electric achievements as merely a beginning.
The article surveys ancient and folk beliefs about onions as food and medicine. It notes that ancients deemed them acrid and unhealthy but others praised boiled onions for nourishment and health, including claims they aid hair growth, tumors, paralysis of the tongue, vision, and toothache, with regional practices and dreams linked to onions.
A Yale basketball player who played here recently received a three figure check from his grandfather in New Jersey. Coach William Lush arranged the sale check, sparking the player to telegram and letter his gratitude before realizing the telegram could not find the addressee.
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