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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1930
Page
4
Editorial notes highlight health, work, taxes and social behavior with humorous quips. Observations include dangers from drivers, income tax burdens, jail risk for jobless, Edison misquote, bank sophistication, and stock certificates with pretty pictures. Medical science is praised while autos threaten public safety.
The piece urges residents to promote local business and advertising. It warns that net outgo exceeding income, or a town spending more outside than it earns from outside, signals trouble. Readers are urged to actively pull for progress.
Thomas A. Edison on his birthday announced plans for another scholarship program to engage American youth in science and invention. The effort aims to foster inventive talent by funding education for a select number of boys and inspiring broader interest in solving mechanical problems.
The Chicago police push to eradicate gangsters gunmen and hoodlums in the city aiming to scatter these figures to larger cities as authorities intensify their crackdown. The text outlines a broad statewide or nationwide implication of police action.
The text contrasts modern crooks with old time criminals. It notes they retreat to hiding places and often appear stylishly dressed, resembling prosperous business people. It warns the modern thief is more dangerous than the ragged criminal of the past.
The piece discusses adopted regulations against ride begging in certain areas and proposals in winter legislatures. It notes ride beggars are unpopular, disrupt traffic, and may be insulting if refused. While enforcement is questioned, readers are urged to turn down strangers and encourage steady work.
National City Bank of New York reports 806 leading corporations earned 12 percent more profits in 1929 than 1928. Despite the November stock market break, higher profits likely boosted dividend distributions. Firms will have more funds for expansions and improvements and may raise wage payments, signaling expanded spending that sustains industry locally and beyond.
Illinois tops lists for weekly newspapers and hosts major political conventions. Joliet wins national paint-up prize while gas use rises in November 1929 versus 1928. Presidents Lincoln through Harding were nominated at Illinois conventions. Illinois ranks high in federal income tax receipts and Civil War enlistment.
Ruth ResnikofY of Toledo Ohio was selected as the most nearly perfect American beauty in a contest staged in Philadelphia. The contestants came from physical culture classes. Ruth is an expert swimmer and enjoys outdoor sports.
A collage of humorous exchanges and quips covers topics from church bazaars to fashion and marriage. Jokes about luck and gambling in life mix with classroom wisdom, fashion lines, and light social observations. The dialogue centers on ordinary encounters and witty one liners.
Roscoe E. Woods of Roscoe E. Woods & Co. says a new steel city will emerge nine miles east of Gary, Indiana, to serve National Steel Corp’s planned 40 to 50 million dollar plant. The syndicate controls about 1390 acres to be developed into a 30 000 to 50 000 population city within ten years with private building and public spaces. The plant site will include a harbor on Burns Ditch for ore ships, making it Indiana’s fourth lake port alongside Indiana Harbor Michigan City and Buffington.
Language scholar notes that the phrase ya olde was never used in any century. The y in ye derives from the thorn letter and in modern print collapsed into a single form.
The barbed wire industry began with Joseph F. Glidden’s 1874 patent. Glidden and Phineas W. Vaughan issued a joint patent the same year for a manufacturing machine. Steel advances spurred growth, with 1874 production at 5 tons rising to 40,000 tons in 1880 and about 200,000 tons by 1890 and remaining near that level into the 1920s.
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