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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1908
Page
4
Reports list meetings of the Business Men's Association and Riverdale Improvement Association with officers and locations. Also notes Dolton School Board and Riverdale Board Directors meetings and includes brief extracts on a psychology article about why men refuse to teach and a tip for worm fishing and a note about Hexham abbey Saxon crypt built from Roman stones.
A National Telephone Journal urging users to treat phone conversations with the same courtesy and common sense as in face to face chats to improve the overall quality of telephone service.
Dolton Village Board met in regular session with all members present except one. They reviewed the June bills, treasurer reports requiring signing, drainage work on sewer lines, and center-lane placement to save costs. Streets and sidewalks were discussed including repairs, weed control, and new walks near the Pennsylvania tracks.
Eastbound and northbound service from Chicago to Riverdale with daily departures at 7.00 am 7.58 am 9.23 am 4.15 pm 6.14 pm 7.05 pm. Dalton runs on the same timetable with a two minute variation in each direction.
Joseph Burnston one of the oldest locomotive engineers on the Chicago division of the C E I Railroad died at his home 8926 Lake avenue Chicago last Sunday at 1245 am after a three month illness from stomach trouble and heart failure He was 53 Funeral was held Tuesday at 10 from his residence to Arlington Cemetery under B of L E and I C C F guidance He was second oldest in service among Chicago division engineers and Local No 613 members attended He is survived by his wife and three children plus many friends. Also note George Brooks elder son of the late Francis Brooks formerly of Riverdale visited old friends in Chicago Ray Brooks son of Francis Brooks holds a position with a paper company in Kansas City Missouri.
A cautionary quote from Harvard Lampoon about choosing wealth and display over modest labor and contentment. It contrasts living contentedly with seeking affluence and posing prosperity rather than genuine riches.
In a Dean Forest inquest a collier who died after entangling with a machine had warned his wife the previous night that a dream predicted an accident with the machinery and his fall into it.
The New York American notes that in Islam there are seven heavens with the top one described as a realm of divine light beyond speech, each level refined beyond the last.
Lady Mary Montague introduced inoculation to England after learning the method in Constantinople. She first tested its efficacy on her own son before sharing it with the world.
The quote emphasizes reverence as the core joy and power of life. It extols reverence for youth’s purity, elders’ truths, gracious living, and enduring powers beyond death, drawing on Ruskin’s thought to value beauty, truth, and enduring qualities across generations.
The text notes Earth is about 89,897,000 miles from the Sun in winter and 92,963,000 miles in summer. The mean distance between Earth and Sun is 91,430,000 miles.
A Brooklyn wife used force to extract money from her husband after he refused to pay a feed bill. She throttled him and pulled his teeth to ransom the money, beating him into compliance.
A humorous observation that many women receive proposals after arriving at the scene soon after a man has been jilted, highlighting social luck and timing in courtship.
A collection of classified items from Dolton including gas store sale price drop from 12 to 6 dollars, lots for sale in Mrs Bartsche subdivision, house for rent near the railroad, two roll top desks for 15 each, a lost black Cocker Spaniel, a young fresh milk cow for sale, a four room cottage for rent, a five room house for rent, two pool tables for sale, a square piano for sale or rent, and a Victor phonograph sold factory direct with easy payments at The Pointer office.
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