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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1923
Page
6
The release highlights gains in employment across twenty leading industries and mentions talks on Russian recognition. It notes political forecasts from Senator Moses and Brookhart, legal actions around wartime fraud cases, and tobacco-like references to whipping in Georgia. Also covered are a dynamite railroad wreck, a local flogging proposal, pardons in Mississippi, a Utah birth, and a rodeo world record in Kansas.
Wage advances for domestic shopmen on Southern railway and Main Central railroad workers reported in Chicago. Large raisin shipment from Fresno en route to the East. California cities struck by strong earthquakes.
A Foreign An El Paso dispatch reports five widows filing claims for shares of Francisco Villa's estate. The item notes other international developments including Ireland’s De Valera and the Mexican recognition accord.
Percy G. Williams retired theater magnate dies at Pineacres East Slip N Y. In 1912 he sold vaudeville houses to Keith interests for about 12 000 000. Clara Van Kirk Mitchell aunt of President Harding dies in Columbus Ohio. Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee U S N retired dies in New York. Edwin C. Bell oil fields historian dies at Titusville Pennsylvania.
Decatur year ending April 30 1923 records 978 births 522 boys 451 girls and 524 deaths including 74 under one year 28 under five. Northwestern Evanston cites 150 summer religious education students. Illinois library moves to Centennial Building Springfield. Hamel couple John Henry 83 marries Elizabeth Alderson. Geneseo fruit crops up raspberries blackberries gooseberries currants cherries bumper. Joliet Health Commissioner warns typhoid season urging boiled well water and vaccination where exposed.
Plans are being completed at Marion for a large field day demonstration on July 25 featuring beekeepers from Williamson county. The item notes regional farming activity and civic planning amid a busy midwestern agricultural scene.
A city dam at Galena built over twenty five years ago for two hundred thousand dollars and now maintained by the federal government will be torn down. The lock never produced revenue for either party and currently has no gates. A new Illinois pig survey shows an eight percent rise in spring pig numbers this season. The Peter Umathum American Legion auxiliary in Woodstock voted to donate five dollars monthly to the YMCA Speedway hospital in Chicago to aid wounded ex service men.
Miss Patricia Hasler sixteen daughter of Mrs Edward Hasler dies at Lake Forest from brain concussion after being thrown from her runaway horse on Telegraph road near Everett. Willow flies plague-like over Hardin and Grafton forcing business houses of both towns to close for a full evening to stem the pest problem.
The state fish commission at Springfield will dispatch a full car of young bass to Winnebago county this summer and stock the Rock Kishwaukee Pecatonica and Sugar rivers with black bass fingerlings. Edgar county to celebrate its centennial August 27 to 31 in Paris with a homecoming and pageant featuring 1500 cast members. Eighteen Springfield attorneys clerks and stenographers affected by AG Brundage ruling that bills funding election committees are unconstitutional.
The Springfield issued semi monthly crop report by A J Surratt federal agricultural statistician for Illinois predicts a fair apple crop and a short peach crop, with heavy production areas most affected. Small fruits and vegetables are above average in yield.
The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of West Frankfort aided Mr. and Mrs. Jewell Saltier with funds to ease financial hardship. Mrs. Saltier has suffered illness for eight years and Mr. Saltier has heart disease. Rev H M Bannen of Trinity Lutheran Rockford receives a $1000 bequest from Mrs Elizabeth Harleman of Holcomb ill. The Rockford Home for the Aged and the Rockford Children's Home also get $1000 each under the will.
Report notes a human finger found at the wreck scene but hospital staff say none of the three injured men lost a finger. Separate data show contagious diseases declining in midyear 1923 with 12,572 cases of smallpox typhoid fever diphtheria and scarlet fever from January to July 1.
A movement has begun in Marseilles to build a municipal swimming pool, meeting strong local favor. The nearest pool is at Gould Park in Morris, drawing crowds from Marseilles and across the state.
Hundreds of Ku Klux Klan members in full regalia gathered on Mrs. Minnie L. Crocker’s farm west of Edwardsville for an initiation. A 30 foot flaming cross blazed while thousands looked on and were kept back by guards.
Mrs. Lena Waldley of Aurora received a $600 state war benefit as the beneficiary of her sons George and Frank. Two other sons Jesse and Walter shared a $600 payment, and son Jack recently received a ponus check from Wisconsin.
The Sinois Children's Home and Aid society of Chicago and Moses E. Kelley diocesan supervisor of charities for the central charity bureau of Chicago filed the initial applications for a boarding home license under the new law signed by Governor Len Small.
The report praises widespread seeding success across Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba with ideal conditions and minimal losses. Droughts hail and rain are deemed negligible amid expectations of record yields across all grains, spurring interest from US readers and noting favorable farm land prices and available government guidance for prospective settlers.
Registration data show an average of 3.45 persons per car at national parks in 1922, suggesting motorists exceeded two passengers. Even with roadsters in the mix, many autos on tour carried nearly full capacity.
A druggist report highlights kidney trouble as common yet often undetected. Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root is promoted as a cure with claims of high success and light insurance rejections linked to undiagnosed kidney issues. Sample bottle offer and drugstore availability noted.
Department of Commerce report notes gasoline at 1.20 dollars per gallon in Nairobi and higher in Kenya Tanganyika and Uganda. Figures reflect widespread price increases impacting travel and transport across East Africa.
An advertisement touts Cuticura Ointment Soap and Talcum for pimples redness roughness and itching with a suggested fragrance leaving routine. It notes price 25c each. A separate proverb warns that drinking to a man’s health will not extend life and that breaking wings makes an army fly.
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