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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1927
Page
3
A neighborhood exchange reflects mixed reactions to the birth of triplets as one speaker celebrates with religious faith while another freemans humorous quip questions the blessing. The dialogue captures local sentiment at a moment of communal notice.
An obscure origin for the idiom nine lives is discussed. The piece notes cats were worshiped in ancient Egypt and cites Pasht, the cat headed goddess, as having nine lives. A writer on mythology is referenced to link the goddess to the common belief about cats possessing nine lives.
The Arctic tern undertakes a remarkable yearly migration from Arctic breeding grounds to the Antarctic region. Covering about 11,000 miles annually, the bird travels at roughly 75 miles per day, shifting from winter to summer residence across oceans and climates.
In 1777 James Wilkinson, aide to Gen Horatio Gates, delivered dispatches from Yorktown revealing the surrender of General Burgoyne and a British army at Saratoga. En route he spent a day with his sweetheart at Reading, prompting Gov Samuel Adams to propose awarding him spurs for carrying the welcome news.
The note traces the old term chicken as a nickname for a young girl in Samuel Johnson’s dictionary and humorously questions a modern England dictionary definition of wing as to how angels fly. The author jests about angels traveling by wish rather than wings and contemplates future angel travel.
The Detroit News reports that at midday meals for Henry IV of France the Louvre menu offered four soups and four entrees, including a ten pound beef joint, mutton, capon, and multiple chickens with capon pastry on certain days. Fast days featured roasted pike or carp, while evening meals remained heavy and vegetables rarely appeared.
The Village of Riverdale Illinois enacts an annual appropriation bill for corporate purposes for May 1 1927 through April 30 1928 to provide necessary expenses and liabilities. It limits tax levy only for the specified sinking fund and interest while remaining sums may come from surplus or non tax revenues with section listing 32 100 and 2 100 for garbage disposal. Passed and filed July 12 1927 by Village Clerk George L Koehler.
Secretary of War Davis sailed on the Olympic for France where he will spend several weeks with his wife who has been ill for some time.
New York report states Henry Ford, via Arthur Bris bane, ordered the Dearborn Independent to stop publishing The International Jew and withdraw the articles. Ford issued a long statement expressing deep regret, condemning the spread of untrue Zionist conspiracy theories, and vowing to seek forgiveness and extend friendship and goodwill to Jewish people.
Two British men of war H. M. S. Helltrope and H. M. S. Capetown will visit Bar Harbor, Maine from July 28 to August 8, per War department notice. Agricultural forecasts expect North American winter wheat production to dip slightly from last year while European and North American crops rise modestly. Secretary Hoover plans a visit to President Coolidge at the summer White House in Rapid City, South Carolina, before his California vacation. Army and Navy air services will scrap many wartime airships, including all UN class in the Army and most single engine Navy ships. Mississippi Valley flood relief headquarters move from New Orleans to Washington, with Red Cross operations directed from there.
At the Fidac convention in Luxemburg veterans of the British Italian French German and Austrian armies from World War I gather to discuss shared history and postwar concerns.
The MacMillan Field expedition heads for Labrador aboard auxiliary schooners Bowdoin and Radio. The voyage aims to reach the Arctic region, with MacMillan leading the crew from Sydney, Nova Scotia.
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