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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1925
Page
3
Washington reports a decisive party split over the Underwood bill to lease Muscle Shoals. An amendment by Senator Smith would have forced government operation of the plant, but it failed 49 to 32. If no bid is entered by Sept 1, 1925, the government would run the facility.
Secretary Hoover urged strict laws to reduce auto deaths at a national street and highway safety conference. He noted automobile deaths have not fallen and have doubled in ten years, calling for prevention safeguards harsher penalties and public education to curb driving risks.
Washington reports a bribery shadow over the postal employees pay increase bill as the veto fight with President Coolidge looms. DOJ charges allege a senate employee received 2600 dollars to influence passage and a 10000 dollar arrangement to deploy influence in the bill. An arrest is promised.
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Department of Labor authority to deport five I W W members linked to Big Bill Haywood. Richard Brazier Peter Breen Joe Graber John Sheridan and James Slovock had been convicted in 1918 before Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis and sentenced to Leavenworth. President Harding commuted their sentences in June on condition of lawful conduct.
An old lady praises her son Clarence for passing an examination and notes his improved typing skills after he sent a telegram informing his mother of his success.
In My Book of Memory a tale from Dr W B Pope and his son Sam unfolds. The father tricks the son into preaching then mocks the result while the son reveals he found a pile of sermons in the study. The exchange highlights sharp but costly judgment.
A Dutch salvage firm searches the Caribbean seabed for a relic of Piet Hein’s 17th century silver fleet victory. The tale recalls his hero’s welcome in Amsterdam and his mother’s greeting, “Is that you, Piet,” as she tells him to wipe his muddy feet.
Beavers have few wild habitats in Europe with a small thriving colony reported near Arendal in southern Norway. The Field notes a hidden group at Niel Eilve in an inaccessible birch pine and aspen landscape with no nearby human dwellings. Origin of the colony remains unspecified.
A descriptive piece extols the herring gull for its beauty and graceful flight. It notes the bird soars over the city and follows the river, perches on channel buoys, and rests in inland ponds and reservoirs. The gull is described as undisturbed by humans and protected in harbors and rookeries.
The phrase Lynch law has been attributed to multiple figures and places. Proposals link it to a Virginia soldier or farmer named Lynch, to an English envoy named Lynch, and to a Galway mayor, or to Lynch Creek in North Carolina where a court martial and execution occurred on a Tory’s body.
The Mackenzie River is identified as Canada’s longest river and the second longest in North America. No other facts are provided.
Mrs B M Ward recounts memories from Ninety Years including the punctured crinoline tale of Mrs Tooke wife of the Upton vicar. At a bishop visit the air inflated screw fixture failed when she kicked it causing the crinoline to collapse and the room to fall silent.
Gray's Inn in London long drew Baconian visitors who believe Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare. The Detroit News notes links to America with Lawrence Washington admitted in 1607, Robert Washington ancestor of George Washington, Thomas Yale ancestor of Elihu Yale, and Andrew Hamilton of Maryland admitted in 1714 who designed Philadelphia's state house, birthplace of the American republic.
The passage discusses youth as a time of experimentation driven by ignorance of self and life. It portrays the young as a total stranger to themselves, pursuing varied experiences to verify existence and taste different human fates, with interest intensifying as senses and intellect differ.
The article traces wrestling as an ancient key sport with Cornwall leading the way in early games. It notes a Cornish hug proverb and a man who funded fifth year games around his mausoleum near St Ives since 1782, linking St Ives Penzance Helston and Truro to the sport’s enduring local tradition.
In London at St Andrew Undershaft a monument to author John Stow shows him seated at a table writing a book. His right hand holds a quill pen renewed annually. Previously souvenir hunters stole the pen believing it to be the original writing tool.
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