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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1921
Page
6
A comical column notes trains often ignore crossing warnings, while motorists use many powerful cars today. It jokes about social rules, employment biases, bankruptcy, and wages, pairing light satire with reflections on status and prices. It mentions President Harding and a satirical editor's chair.
An editorial laments an eastern firm banning bobbed hair for its female workers while western employers reject such restrictions. It argues bobbed hair signals coolness and sanitation and questions female welfare influence behind the rule, suggesting the policy lacks male support or practical basis.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt argues Americans grow a habit of regulating others lives. It condemns meddling in private affairs and urges employers to restrain overreach while noting the broader social itch to control behavior. The piece cites annoyance at bobbed hair as a trigger for reaction.
A Washington boy 15 year old Jimmie Bradley testifies before a Congressional committee urging nature study in schools. The writer argues nature study awakens interest in birds flowers and stones and can wake backward children, benefiting life readiness.
The Lutheran Synod of the North District plans to buy five acres for a new Lutheran cemetery adjacent to Oak Forest Infirmary to bury inmates of Lutheran faith. Catholics have a separate Catholic burial ground. the land costs 1500 dollars and donations are sought from Missouri Synod Lutheran societies to fund the purchase.
A reflective piece on seriousness versus humor, noting how some people renounce gaiety to prepare for a smileless eternity. The narrator recalls encountering a educated stranger with a chilling, joyless gaze and ends with a surrealomic line about doom and a kitten's tail.
A young woman dropped a pocket book with $40 in a Hartford business building. A two month search failed to locate it until it was found resting on the elevator weight. A 92 year old man spotted it by chance while looking down the elevator well from the top floor.
A terse note describes a violent incident linked to a pursuit with one person hurt badly. The speaker recalls grabbing a button as a trophy while noting uncertainty about the other party’s identity and the overall outcome.
Weather Bureau records show no permanent shift in mean temperatures since the Revolutionary era. An official notes nine months of the year saw the coldest month occur after the warmest, with warmest periods in 1800 1810 and 1920, indicating no radical long term climate change.
The connoisseur is one who knows and judges art from deep knowledge, surpassing the amateur and approaching the artist, especially in painting sculpture or music. The dilettante loves the arts in a casual, contemplative way, defined by inert impartial observation and limited practical application.
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