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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1907
Page
6
Eleanor Chase, weary of constant motherhood and exhausting social whirl, trips to her sister in New England becomes weighed by homesickness. A whirlwind week reveals a deeper truth, and she returns home relieved by the "vacation cure" that restores her sense of family belonging.
Two tadpoles in a meadow pool differ in ambition. One grows pale green legs and becomes a boastful frog, while the other stays legless, insisting anonymity. The vain sibling meets a crispy fate, and the patient, unseen tadpole remains uncaught.
A Mobile speaker recalls the late Senator Pugh who mocked country charms claiming city fare is superior. He recounts a June meeting with a friend who rented a summer house near New York where fresh eggs and vegetables are available at Secraggs Four Corners nearly as cheap as in the city.
A newspaper quote discusses a Department of Agriculture claim that rats cost the country 100 million dollars annually. A wife counters with a personal estimate of 385 cents and remarks on women making their own remedies and hair styles, doubting the figure.
In Boston, Ambassador Bryce criticizes US and Canadian city names for duplication and urges revival of Indigenous names. He cites Toronto’s shift from York, Wanfield to Orinoco, and notes Springfield’s Agawam alternative. He argues more Indian toponyms would improve American and Canadian naming.
Joliet July 6 a fire threatened the state penitentiary in the chair shop. Prison flames were checked by the fire department with only nominal loss as convicts became alarmed but were controlled.
P W Barclay a thirty third degree Mason and past grand commander of the grand commandery of Illinois Knights Templar and former high priest of the grand chapter of Illinois Masons died after a several days illness at age 72 in Cairo.
Danville man John Theodore Carrington, who on July 5 1903 shot and killed his brother George's wife at Grape Creek five miles south of here, was captured in Elkins West Virginia and will be returned for trial.
A nine year old boy, son of Charles Green, died after falling at play in Carmi. He suffered a broken neck in the accident.
In Chicago at Broadway and Blue Island avenues a buggy carrying Frank Merches aged 17 and his father 45 from Midlothian NL was struck by a Grand Trunk train as gates rose after a freight train passed. The younger man suffered a fractured skull and internal injuries possibly fatal while the father broke his right arm and sustained severe bruising. The horse was killed instantly.
In Kewanee a First Baptist Sunday school picnic four miles from town left about forty ill from ptomaine poisoning. After dinner in the timber near town, guests fell sick. among the victims are Arthur Foster, superintendent, and P N Mason, editor of the Buda Plain Dealer.
A riot broke out at a Charleston versus Mattoon baseball game in the Eastern Illinois league. With the score tied 0 to 0 in the eighth, umpire Clancy from Indianapolis was assaulted after a disputed first base decision, receiving heavy injuries as the crowd swarmed the field.
Cass county reports wheat yields near average, oats and hay suffer from insect damage. An Arenzville man claims 50 bushels per acre. An East Cass farmer sold his oats in the field for one dollar per acre. Corn plowing urgent.
The steamer Liberty, delayed by a vast cloud of willow bugs, capitulated after a brutal onslaught. Machinery clogged and halted, the vessel reached Alton an hour late with skipper crew and passengers claiming the insect army gave them the worst battle of their lives.
Mount Vernon Murrell and Lester Cross nine and six years old wandered twenty miles to Dahigien before parents learned their whereabouts. They were exhausted but found safe after a manhunt. Bloomington Edward Blackhall Jr. aged 25 of Chicago killed himself by slashing his throat in the chair car of the north bound Prairie State Limited. He had been in poor health and despondency is given as the reason. Decatur New instructors named at James Millikin University Prof Binney Gunnison of Boston appointed to public speaking chair and Prof Myra B Clark to domestic science chair following Prof Johnsons resignation.
Charles Carroll a vagrant in Carmi obtained permission to visit a church. He attended a Methodist service and returned to his city jail cell on his own after worship.
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