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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1930
Page
3
A column from editor Thomas F. Kinney and staff comments on tariff timing before November with lawmakers traveling to give speeches. It links civic duties, gift clauses, and 1930 expectations while lampooning idle claims and urging practical study of books and budgets.
The piece argues for an investigator's mindset over partisan zeal in prohibition discussions. It urges openness to new facts and evidence and warns against propagandists pushing fixed theories, championing scientific spirit as progress.
The article notes a shift away from whiskers toward the modern clean shave. It argues that shaving habits are changing globally, with many men viewing the smooth look as more alert while full beards lose significance in signaling conservatism.
Whisker habit was promoted by caricatures of the bushy bearded countrymen. The farmer element is portrayed unfairly, though they are as alert as anyone, yet their images helped sell many razors in rural districts.
A St Louis movement proposes a memorial to Col. Lindbergh but the famed flyer hopes no action is taken. He is viewed as worthy yet his modesty and self effacement define his heroism. The piece argues greatness often accompanies humility rather than vanity.
Ex President Calvin Coolidge, en route to Florida, says he prefers walking to golf because it takes too long to change clothes. The piece urges readers to open eyes on daily walks, noting new store windows, products, architecture, birds, flowers, and garden changes as spring arrives.
Illinois ranked second in manufactured gas customers and had nearly 1 million beef cattle worth about 36 million dollars. Generating plants produced 613.639 million kWh in November 1929. water power was 3.8 percent. There were 857 coal mines in 1928. Chicago elevated rush hour exceeds Peoria’s population in 60 minutes. Milking machines on 3.1 percent of farms. Oil and gas wells employed 1,500. Coke production valued at 20 million. A jokey joke about a mother using a cigarette holder now.
Gene Sarazen captured the Miami open golf championship at Miami Country Club for the fourth straight year finishing the 72 hole event with a total score of 300.
A collage of quips and vignettes including misread lessons, nautical banter, luck versus effort, a reading joke about Johnny ny, jokes about reading aloud, a bad pun about a button hook, a line about cooing in a rumble seat, a note on chicken feed at supper clubs, and a joke where an old lady questions a druggist about canine pills and her husband’s manners.
A collection of quick quips and rural humor about family, neighbors, and everyday life. Jokes include a boy named Bobby asking if a city visitor is a full blood, a banker’s son seeking ten dollars to be square, and a courtroom quip about valuing a lost thumb. Modern woes and sly wisdom surface in light anecdotes and puns.
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