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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1910
Page
8
J Huizenga reports a case of diphtheria at his home as boys remain scarce and the town awaits more news. A recent shower lowers the sick list but the paper notes little else this week with updates expected next week.
Public notice states the dog tax for 1910 is due by August 1. The collector will call in July to collect the tax. H. R. Penfield, Collector.
The Homewood Village Board held a lively meeting approving a special election for a $5 000 water bond by special assessment. An ordinance limiting one saloon per 500 residents was introduced but failed. Community notes include visits from golf and Cincinnati teams, local moves, and an Arkansas rain report.
Multiple listings announce items for sale rent and services including a good work horse priced at 85 dollars a 25 foot launch with 5 horsepower engine a store property option for Peter Pauls estate near the C and E I depot Dalton and Lincoln Avenue parcels. Also insurance services furniture and house coverage by L F Ripley. Rentals include a six room flat and a four room cottage with basement near Lincoln Ave Dalton. Egg hatching S C White Leghorns at John R Schmidt Matteson. Twin Thor motorcycle for sale with side car magneto and speedometer in Dalton. Also large farm land 48 acres north of Callumet River near Llalsted Street. Additional property listings on Lincoln Avenue Washington Street and around Dolton.
The Riverdale Park District adopts an appropriation ordinance for the fiscal year May 1 1910 to April 30 1911. It lists amounts for officers bonds election and legal expenses secretary salary park maintenance and incidental costs totaling 500 dollars. Passed July 13 1910 and approved July 11 1910.
The district solicits sealed bids for 80 tons of large eye hard coal to furnish Bowen School District No 133 Riverdale Illinois. 15 tons to arrive by Sept 1 1910 and 15 tons January 1–6 1911. Bids open Saturday July 30 at 8 PM. Address M H Kelly Clerk Riverdale IL.
The principal constituents reject the gardener as city council candidate saying his occupation would invite corruption suspicions. A friend of the candidate questions why it should matter, but the objection remains tied to the notion he would engage in graffiti.
A yarn from Wide World Magazine recounts a yogi with a long neglected matted hair resembling a snake. The mass trails four feet and proves hard to brush out. One night a snake crawled into the tangle while the yogi slept beneath a tree and he faced a difficult removal come morning.
A French physician notes hats temperatures rise above outside air, with a 108 degree reading in the hat while the shade measures 68, and 88 inside when the outside is 68. He argues heat within hats drives nervous conditions and cites thermometer readings from observers.
In a brief humorous exchange a young mother asks for a servant to fetch her husband’s mother’s phonograph and play a cylinder from his tenth month to quiet a squalling baby. The fragment captures domestic humor and period speech from the NY Weekly.
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