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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1908
Page
8
A determined woman on a car confronts a colonel who refuses to pay for her fare. The conductor eyes the exchange as the colonel pretends to pass, and the couple banter reveals the man is Mary’s husband plotting to knock down his own wife’s fare.
The term grain comes from an old English pound defined as the weight of 7,680 grains of wheat from the middle of the ear. Each of the 16 ounces then held 480 grains. Though standards changed, 480 grains per ounce remains in Troy and apothecaries weight, tracing to the Conquest era.
A discussion notes that about one in fifteen boys is left handed by age ten and criticizes parental influence. It mentions German schools teaching right handedness, right handed tools, and claims a right-hand bias in work, while acknowledging some bilateral ability offers advantages.
An Irish laborer visits a drug store and offers to pay five dollars for an analysis of suspicious lozenges. He pockets the contents, refuses the test, and declares he will feed one to his cat, revealing a humorous grasp of certainty versus expert proof.
A seaside resort tale shows a Brave Youth saving a Beautiful Girl from drowning. The grateful father offers either Two Hundred Thousand Plinks or his daughter’s hand, but the editor says the girl is his for life, mocking moral fiction and a poor village editor.
Salvatore Marchinne was killed in a Brooklyn barber shop when two men restrained him and a third drove a stiletto into his neck. The body was dismembered and dumped in Flatbush, with clues including a Palermo hatband and letters from Palermo found on the victim. A 17 year old boy alerted police to the grisly discovery, while investigators pursue the possible motive tied to Marchinne’s disclosures.
A traveler recalls a woman riding to her doctor seated in a chair on a man's back. She notes Mexican women fear male cars and tremble at the spinning trolley, so some hire a human carrier for a few cents per trip.
Dalton residents receive new telephone service with installations at William Wegener & Son florists 483 Orin Vandenberg 482 and Joseph Schmidt 481 confirming expanded local lines and access.
A San Francisco Chronicle cartoon caption features Big George at the Fairmont booz bazar arguing over a windmill purchase. He describes three Sundays at a Sonoma county ranch where the machine failed to move despite his sunbaked vigil. George questions whether a breeze existed, insisting he would not fan himself otherwise.
Amos Boggs endures a hard morning hauling water from the old well to the Boggs family kitchen. An elderly wealthy woman questions the effort as Mrs. Boggs washes for the family and about a dozen customers.
A traveler describes Sweden as a land of stilts on ice. A girl skims two feet high while experts perform on five foot stilts. They execute outer and inner edge, rings, grapevine moves. Yet a fall from five feet can break the ice.
A well preserved fountain in the Temple Area known as Bab Silsilea is described as built about eight centuries ago. It has long been fed with water carried by pipes from Solomon's Pools, located several miles away.
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