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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1918
Page
4
A wartime editorial urges citizens to support war by buying War Savings Stamps and giving up luxuries. It praises home papers for informing communities and stresses merchants should advertise openly to sell goods, using the sack metaphor to urge clearer messaging.
The piece urges nationwide spring thaw from winter hardship as farms resume work. It calls for supporting the war effort with War Savings, acreage of corn, a War Savings pig, and thrift stamp fundraisers by urban and rural communities to aid soldiers and the nation.
Primary election will be held in the Village Hall Riverdale Cook County Illinois on Tuesday March 1 1918 for nominating candidates for Village Clerk and three Trustees for two year terms and one Police Magistrate for four years Polls open from 6 00 am until 5 pm
John Shillings collector announces tax collection in numerous Illinois communities. Dates span February and March with locations including Harvey City Hall Lansing Oak Glen Schrumville Bernice South Holland Homewood Hammond Burnham Berger's Corner Thornton Hazel Crest Dalton Riverdale and more.
A downstate town tarred and feathered a lawyer deemed disloyal, a spectacle praised by some as Americanistic zeal but likely to harden defiance and boost the lawyer's notoriety as a martyr. The Chicago Tribune argues that internment would be a quicker, quiet remedy.
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