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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1925
Page
4
A 1926 Dalton column ribbing local life lists quips about matrimony, fashion, work, politics, and driving. It jokes about mismatched pairs, moonshine rewards, overworked loafers, and politicians with a soft pedal, ending with a jab at newspaper ads and sealed proposals.
The piece argues money conflicts split families as men hoard funds for self pleasures while wives fund essentials. It urges equal partnership where the wife’s voice counts with the wage earner and notes women often manage money more carefully and could improve outcomes by taking control of the family purse.
The article warns of a potential influenza outbreak echoing 1918 fears. It notes grip epidemics in various localities and cites 10,000 London schoolchildren with the disease. It urges outdoor activity and open air to prevent spread, arguing against excessive indoor heating and closed spaces.
Emerson College Boston launches Pos ture Week to counter flapper's hump and college slump among young women. The program encourages girls to sit and stand tall, with business people also urged to correct their stooped habits for better breathing and productivity.
The text outlines deductions for business income: storekeepers may deduct rent insurance utilities and wages. professionals may deduct supplies office costs and travel. farmers may deduct production and material costs but not machinery or buildings. Personal living expenses are not deductible.
A historical note recalling 1679 Royal Society discussions on human flight. Hooke presented Besnier the smiths flying method with folding wings moved by hand, while Loyal Society members questioned practicality and suggested spring driven chariots or wheeled machines for flight.
A badge system uses colored buttons on headgear to signify nine ranks among civil and military officials. The first rank uses a transparent red ruby button, the second opaque red catal, the third transparent blue sapphire, the fourth opaque lapis lazuli, the fifth transparent white crystal, the sixth opaque white, the seventh plain gold, the eighth worked gold, and the ninth plain gold with an engraved character.
In Whinath Lake, Oregon, thousands of floating islands form amid the waters. Tules grow on these mats, reaching up to 12 feet high, though they rarely bear the weight of a person stepping aboard.
New instruments give magnification over 600000000 times and 25000 diameters. Siedentopf of Zeiss and N D Chopra pioneer this leap enabling corrosion avoidance in tram rails and vast savings. A moderate microscope multiplies 360000 times. a tennis ball would seem one and a half miles wide through the devices.
A Parisian opera singer touring the world agreed to a Society Islands engagement paying one third of receipts. Her share consisted of 3 pigs 92 turkeys 44 chickens 5000 coconuts and many bananas and oranges. With no money to convert she fed the fruit to local animals and donated the barnyard to the community.
Tea plants in China are of two varieties Thea bohea and thea varides grown in Kwang Tung Fu Kien and Che Kiang. Plantations prefer deep rich loam on low hills not lowlands. Leaves are picked three times mid April early May and when new growth forms. First harvest yields finest tea but harms the plant.
Ireland, a youth, claimed to own forged Shakespearean autographs and plays including Vortigern. The Drury Lane production on April 2 1796 proved vapid, leading to Ireland admitting the forgery and publishing his Confessions in 1805.
Ivy on sound walls acts as a shield against rain, deflecting most water from the wall. The small portion absorbed by ivy rootlets aids drying, and a fair growth of ivy reduces atmospheric corrosion while promoting dryness and warmth.
An old gentleman loves golf but his game worsens with each round. After missing every shot he tells his caddie the fault lies with his skill. The boy offers gentle consolation noting that worse players exist, but they do not play.
The Land of Cockaigne was an imagined realm of ease and abundance where houses were cake roofs and rivers flowed with wine with roasted fowl readily available. The name linked Tendon and Paris after a 1300 satirical poem “The Band of Cockaigne.”
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