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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1907
Page
7
A rich man restless with money jumps from a river bridge but is saved by a poor worker. He grants a wish and offers a million dollars, yet the traveler learns happiness cannot be bought. After three years the seeker asks for another million, revealing the tale’s moral.
A Harvard professor traveling from Cambridge to Boston tries to transfer to city cars. The conductor insists you cannot change here, while the professor contends he may change his mind. The exchange ends with the professor standing on the rear step and defending his discretion.
A fourth cabinet member to die or resign within 11 months shadows Prime Minister Giolitti as Sig. Majorana, youngest treasury minister and designated successor, falls ill and leaves his resignation with the premier, prompting superstition over the cabinet's fate.
A cartoon caption shows a man in the mud declaring that if a camel cannot pass the Needle's Eye then an automobile cannot, delivering a dry joke about impossible passages with a comic punch.
A Detroit Free Press note contemplates the Sella turcica behind the nose bridge as a two-lobed gland remnant from early humans. Physiologists speculate it may be a vestigial sixth sense, with possible roles in darkness or navigation, but the purpose remains unknown.
A well known comedian met a few low actors in Herald Square and greeted Jack asking what to do for the evening. The reply suggested a trip to the Hotel Astor where the newly rich eat soup as described in the weekly column.
In a Pennsylvania mining town a church pulpit, antique and barrel shaped, collapsed as a visiting minister shouted a key line. He fell to the floor but recovered, quipping that though unhurt he dislikes the faulty connection. The incident drew a cautious audience as the preacher joked about the faulty mount.
Mrs. Eliza A. Wiley of Liscomb Iowa recalls eleven years of eczema on her hands with cracks and blood and a nail loss. After trying three doctors and many remedies, a cake of Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Ointment, and Cuticura Resolvent Pills cured her hands.
A collage of quotes on England's debt to France and the Renaissance influence, plus notes on white goods laundering and starch. It includes an ad for Defiance Starch, a London weights verification count, a Lewis' binder ad, a Mrs. Winslow soothing syrup, and a quip about voters electing an honest man.
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