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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1909
Page
5
Advertisers are urged not to print telephone numbers on letter heads bill heads cards or wagons. Obsolete numbers confuse customers and hinder service because numbers change with time. The message notes rushes of business and compares wait times to other services while urging readers to consider why avoiding old numbers helps both subscribers and the telephone system.
Philadelphia scientist Dr. Randle C. Rosenberger reports a method to kill the tubercu losis bacillus in the blood before it reaches the lungs. He says a protective antitoxin could immunize sufferers and nearly erase consumption, with tests on 150 cases showing no failures.
A decomposed male skeleton was found by a farmer's son while muskrat hunting four miles west of Blue Island. The body showed no identifying papers and was too decomposed to determine cause of death at the inquest. Shoes suggest a small man or boy. Burial occurred at Mt Greenwood under Blue Island Standard.
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