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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1908
Page
8
The author argues taste is personal and that museums should pursue scientific growth rather than rely on vague aesthetics. They criticize academic timidity and claim modern thought elevates aesthetic impairment into a supposed scientific virtue, citing Darwin’s noted withering of his esthetic life and Atlantic Monthly as examples.
The story tells of Jim Martin a giant West Virginia lumberman and his heavy handspike of green river birch used for logging. He enlisted early in the Mexican war and was killed in Mexico. His handspike supposedly took root and grew into a tree later pointed out as Jim Martin's monument in the camp.
An attache recalls a year ago a love letter weighed by ten two cent stamps. The postage was exact and the stationery handwriting and address suggested romance, enough to hint it might have been sent as an express package.
An 1795 reference shows an early fountain pen resembling modern ones though complex to use. The dialogue recalls a former resident noting changes over 20 years and asking about Floogus, once a note sharer, now a New York trust company president.
Local items report visits by Mr and Mrs Allen T Shanks of Riverdale to Chicago. Included are notices of illness with influenza like symptoms, a missing gold bracelet, Musk rat trapping by William Schafer on Calumet river, travel plans of Paul Schafer, ice cutting work on Lake Calumet, and various small ads and societal notes from Dolton and nearby areas.
Homewood Woodmen Camp No 5336 Modern Woodmen of America held a public installation on Saturday evening January 4. Officers installed include Peter Fleming Consul J Howe Past Consul Win Horn Adviser Henry Moecker Banker E Goesle Escort H Almer Clerk F Parhman Watchman Rosenstein Sentry H Stolzenbach Manager Sam Whitney Chief Forester. A program followed with a woodcraft talk by Neighbor Albert Doepp and a banquet. Recitations and music by local talent completed the evening.
The Homewood Business Men's Association elected officers and directors. Louis Thielman was named President, Win. Buggert Vice President, John Rabe Secretary, N. R. Chadwick Treasurer, with Henry Gottschalk Henry Moecker and Frank Riedle serving as directors.
A bank cashier explains to a prospective depositor that the system is flawless. The cashier is confined in a boiler iron cage with a single door opening to a dynamic scale tuned to his weight to deter theft.
A Cornhill Magazine writer recounts Miss Napier’s stay in Algiers where a guard dog trained to fetch 12 rolls from a bakery began returning with 11. After observing the dog sharing a roll with a starving mother dog nearby, bakers were instructed to place 13 rolls. The dog then delivered 12 rolls regularly, then 18 as the mother recovered and needed no aid.
A dinner guest questions the dragon’s reality while a Chinese philosopher replies by drawing a parallel to the Goddess of Liberty on Western coins. He notes that unseen symbols carry meaning beyond sight and challenges the guest to consider cultural reverence versus literal existence.
The piece debates whether crimes by men over 30 justify lifelong imprisonment or removal from society. It critiques Belfield’s view that such individuals are hopeless moral idiots, proposing permanent segregation or capital punishment as options, while noting the cost of support for honest citizens.
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