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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1931
Page
4
Weekly Dalton Illinois publication page directs all communications to the Office of Publication. Local context notes Cook County location and issued weekly cadence.
A collection of quips notes and observations on education politics fashion and war era concerns. It lampoons misused phrases social trends and legislative talk while contrasting old and new values with witty jabs at public discourse.
The article notes 511 persons earned incomes of $1,000 or more in 1928 with many more likely in 1929 as stock dividends and corporate rights surged. It cautions such wealth creates extravagance and false ideas while predicting a rebound in public revenues and renewed confidence for the nation.
Secretary C F Mansfield warns Illinois may close all hunting and fishing seasons unless a state wide sanctuary program is adopted and approved at the 1932 election. He cites low game stocks and rising predation while noting strong support for conservation bonds. The exchange ends with a humorous screen door quip about a fly.
Editors once argued journalism could not be taught in schools but now many colleges offer courses. The national association met in Boston where M. W. Atwood praised how such programs inspire and launch careers. Practical training remains challenging as students must confront real sources and rumors beyond classroom work.
Dr. Hans Zinsser of Harvard Medical School announced to the Society of American Bacteriologists that he isolated the typhus fever germ and produced a vaccine yielding immunity in animals. Typhus, though rare in the United States, has caused vast casualties elsewhere, including one million lives in the 1922 Russian famine.
Rockne, coach at Notre Dame, announces he will give up his football duties after Mayo Clinic doctors in Rochester Minnesota advise reducing activities to avoid collapse. The adviser report highlights his fragile health and need for rest.
A scattered papery column features quips and jokes from readers and brief items. A man named Glenn Gorman fell from a roof on Linden Avenue in Barnesville Ohio and was fatally but not seriously injured.
A humorous note describes a lawyer facing trials while a party invites joining a jam preserves with a cake in icing. The text shifts to winter sports as a theme. The playful lines mix legal woes with domestic imagery and seasonal activity.
A quirky snippet shows a lovers' near miss on a crowded trolley while Joe Callem, a major league umpire, agrees to eyesight testing after criticism. An optician scene unfolds with chalkboard figures, plus a flapper souvenir of past misdeeds and a light financial boast.
Charles T. O Neal succeeds T C Powell as president of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad yesterday with Powell becoming chairman of the board The Van Sweringen interests have moved to secure control of the road and press notes indicate the line will join a coast to coast system in the future Powell built the line and oversaw acquisition of the Chicago Terminal Transfer railroad and land near Chicago Heights Development of local facilities will continue under the new regime, though detailed expansion plans have not been announced.
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