This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 6 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1917
Page
5
The article advises cleaning gilt frames and molding by rubbing white of egg with a soft brush to remove dirt. For aged black walnut frames, restore their luster using pure linseed oil or a fresh piece of bleached thualin.
A Nashville Tennesseean quotes a Kentucky orator asking what use kings have. The Kentuckian in question quips that kings are useful if you can obtain as many as three.
Local and riverdale schedules show Chicago departures and eastbound timings. The text lists morning and afternoon times for various stops including North Bound and Dillon connections, with one track timetable noting multiple daily arrivals and departures.
A clustered set of real estate and livestock ads from Riverdale and nearby towns including Calumet avenue homes, a four year old driving pony for $10, prairie hay, hogs for retail, top wagon and buggy, iron safe, a fresh cow with calf, shade trees, and farm buyers within ten miles. Contacts listed for The Pointer office, A C Reich, Vaughan Farm, Chas Milhahn, and Tilstra.
Fragmentary schedule lists times labeled as A M and P M with light and heavy figures. The text shows sequences like 6 25, 2 25, 6 55, 2 40, 7 25, 2 55, 7 55 and 8 25 8 55 9 09 9 39 10 24 10 54 with markers en A M TIME LIGHT FIGURES and P M TIME HEAVY FIGURES.
General house work wanted and several rental offers including a five room flat at 18783 Illinois St 187th place, a large farm house near Oakglen with outbuildings and pasture, two houses and barns with gardening ground on shares near Oliver farms Thornton Ill. plus Ford cars for sale 1911 1913 models and a few Atlantic street lots sold with macadam street and utilities. Also farm and town property for sale in Dal ton and Chicago contacts Jos Schmidt Riverdale Dora Bartley Chicago.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.