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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1919
Page
4
Advertising rates and a long tribute to returning soldiers and sailors. The piece praises veterans for sacrifices, notes wartime hardships, and urges community welcome and support for their reintegration into civilian life. It reflects pride, gratitude, and a call to honor and assist veterans.
Astronomers state star color marks age from bluish white being youngest to red oldest. The sun is blue yellow in its stage. cooling follows with crust formation and a hot interior. The moon represents the final frostbound phase as a desolate body, leaving readers to ponder Earth's future.
Mrs. Deacon Philander, bedridden for a week with a nervous breakdown from overwork, suddenly rose and cried for release. She claimed a dust mark behind the clock spurred her, and doctors hope an anti‑housework toxin may aid recovery while her husband arranges round‑the‑clock guardianship to prevent self harm.
Frayed talk reflects belief that beginning tasks on Friday brings misfortune. Weary Walker notes growing chatter that people consider Friday initiation unlucky and hope for better timing as the week progresses.
The author argues history repeats itself with each era rediscovering old toys of charity, religion, sentiment, or greed, only to discard them and resurface them later with the same claim of novelty. It contends that human actions cycle as civilizations reemerge familiar ideas in new forms.
The narrator recalls a moment during play when coalman Robert dumped blocks from his sister's doll buggy. Hearing her sister sleep, he warned him to be quieter, and Robert replied that next time they would get soft coal so she wouldn't wake up.
The poem Flora McFlimsey of Madison Square inspired a popular 19th century craze about a young woman who had nothing to wear. Anonymously published in Harper's Weekly and later reprinted nationwide, the verses were widely claimed by many as the author’s work. William Allen Butler, a New York lawyer, is the credited creator whose literary reputation endures in history.
Hazel Crest opens an aerial viewing ride near Western Avenue with a 90 horsepower Canadian plane. Aero Transit Co. operates under Chief Pilot Cowing of Homewood and Lieutenants Parmley and Milner. Public tours cost one dollar per minute with a fifteen dollar minimum both in Dalton Riverdale calls confirming the novelty.
The piece recounts Tinckney’s famous line about defense versus tribute and Pinckney’s later clarification not a flourish but a refusal to pay. It also notes a Bryants portrait of a 1831 public quarrel between Bryant and William L. Stone, editors known as sixpenny “respectables.”
George Jennison reprints a polyphonic prose piece from the Manchester Guardian praising the Arab horse. The excerpt assigns divine origin and exalted traits to the horse, describing its color koummite, hair, and status as lord of animals, with wealth and fortune linked to its rider.
The novelist Theodore Dresier, famed for lengthy works of 700 to 800 pages, speaks on criticism at a Greenwich Village ten. A young lady sculptor interrupts, affirming that precious stones are small and need much cutting.
A quotable exchange features Bliss Supreme claiming a heavenly aim on earth through effort and discipline. Cactus Joe counters with a wry mention of a “little ck” as part of the plan. A cryptic line notes a poker hand described as a straight flush against four aces yesterday.
A War Savings Organization symposium showcases letters from over 500 Illinois grade school pupils detailing how they earned money in spare time to buy War Savings stamps. The notes describe farm chores, small jobs, selling items, delivering goods, and classroom activities. One standout from Charles Harvey Brown of Humphrey school notes saving to invest in stamps, aiming to grow $100 in War Savings by 1919.
A compact reflection on how silence and social maneuvering affect rest. It questions who can sustain entrances while trimming costs, noting some men specialize in doing others. The piece probes responsibility, debt, and self-control in social life.
Official publication of the bank's June 30 1919 condition filed with the Illinois Auditor. It lists capital stock 25000 surplus 000 undivided profits 1083 65 deposits 123904 59 dividends unpaid 750 00 bills payable and rediscounts 0 total liabilities 182304 74. Cashier John Harms Jr sworn before Notary H C Thompson on July 8 1919.
The Rock Island roundhouse at 128rd Street, built over more than a year, opened last week with twenty engine stalls. Each stall measures 102 by 25 feet at the rear tapering to 14 feet, and the turntable at its center, 276 feet in circumference, enables engines to reach any stall via radiating tracks, improving switching efficiency. Old coal chutes nearby will be wrecked as repairs move to the new structure.
John accompanied by his father browsed downtown and chose a satisfactory pair of shoes. He asked the clerk to proceed and then queried his father if his feet felt contented in them.
Two inmates with the same name masterminded a jailbreak by swapping identities during exercise. The long term prisoner was released early, leaving the other man mistakenly freed after his term had not yet ended. Officials corrected the error by releasing the second man.
A mistress and her servant girl prepare to leave their home. The girl hides the back door key in the garden as instructed, but pins a note on the door reading Shall you back soon Key under the flower pot on the window ledge. The fragmentary text preserves a domestic scene and the key detail of a hidden entry arrangement.
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