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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1917
Page
6
Hugh returns to the island farm and buries Drummond after a grim beach burial. Mary reveals she has loved him all along but fears her deadly influence and pleads him to keep apart to spare him death and misfortune.
Grimly Whitaker waits for his wife as she confronts her distorted sense of destiny. He calls softly from the locked door and Mary answers with calm assurance, while the house holds its breath in silence. TO BE CONTINUED.
San Francisco Chronicle reports nightly light signals off Richmond and Berkeley fronts reveal a father daughter message system. Captain H F Dunningan of the Santa Fe ferry San Pedro sends hello and good night signals to Florence. A steady window light marks weekly visits and joyous moments for the deaf mute girl.
Springfield reporters note that country schools need larger and additional buildings to meet compulsory attendance. Illinois County Superintendents discuss this, endorsing uniform textbooks and noting enrollment increases. About 5 000 to 6 000 teachers arrive for the Sixty third annual Illinois Teachers Association opening.
In Chicago a subpoena duces tecum for Barrett O Hara lieutenant governor of Illinois was ordered issued by Judge Landis in federal court. He is to testify on the whereabouts of his former secretary Robert St Clark, accused of forging a woman’s name to a deed transfer. Timothy J Curtin testified that Clark drafted and signed the deed and had it notarized by Ulysses G Weir.
Tommy Howard and his aunt walk with a sharp dog that nosed the Brown Cow, leading to a joking explanation of the canine’s cleverness. The aunt hails him as virtuous, while the dog’s behavior sparks comic misreading of a familiar sign.
A short aphorism praises inner light and character as the source of outward effects. It contrasts generosity and purity with selfishness and corruption, noting how virtue warms and cleanses while vice chills and poisons.
George Weber of Aurora and Mrs. Exma Barnfield widow of Birmingham Ala were married after meeting in a theater. Weber describes his shyness and her bold proposal aged 21 and 22 the couple plan to reside in Aurora.
Thomas M. Kilbride, secretary of the state board of pardons, analyzes Chicago crime conditions. He finds a holdup every six hours, a murder every two days, two personal crisis reports daily, and an arrest roughly every seven and a half minutes. He cites liquor lust gambling and bad company as four main causes.
After fifty one years W A Crawford a Civil War veteran in Elgin receives a government check covering back pay and a clothing allowance due when he was mustered out. The long delay underscores wartime service and lingering pension adjustments.
Bloomington reports Mrs. Carrie A. Warner of Cleveland Ohio seeks her sister Catherine M Martin unseen for 25 years. Mrs Warner has learned her sister may have married George Gray and asks Illinois postmasters to aid in locating.
Former Fayette county state s attorney B. B. Spurgeon aged sixty five collapsed dead outside his home while walking uptown. An apparent heart attack was given as the cause of death.
Mayor Edmond Beall halted trapping pigeons that roost in the city hall cupola, triggering strong protests from residents opposed to the move.
W. O. Smith aged ninety three married Elsie Peterson Christensen aged twenty five by Justice T. H. Melagh in Urbana. The bride becomes sole heir to $200,000.
John Kingdom, manager of a grain elevator at Gulva, was killed by a train in Kewaunee. The accident occurred near the Gulva facility as the victim attempted to cross or work near tracks, according to local reports.
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