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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1916
Page
3
Gordon Leigh, a courteous young man, helps a girl named Vera Lewis and wins her admiration. He later escorts her home despite a broken rig and discovers a staged envelope of banknotes prompting a danger he thwarts by saving Vera from robbers. Leigh confesses his love.
A Richmond Times Dispatch quote recalls Binks as overconfident, noting he alone among his party brought a corkscrew on a fishing trip, illustrating his inflated self-importance.
In a German steel works a hydraulic press delivering 11000 tons of pressure replaces a steam hammer that caused ground shaking with each operation. The change marks a move toward quieter, steadier forging technology.
A new cucumber disease labeled mosaic or white pickle has spread in the Midwest, affecting Michigan Wisconsin Indiana and Minnesota. It weakens young plants slows growth and deforms fruit, with control focusing on sanitation and insect pest eradication and coordinated farmer action.
Swine fare better in ample pasture than confinement. Rotate pasture areas to disinfect ground and reduce worm infections. Avoid letting hogs roam freely to limit hog cholera spread.
The article presents a quick rule to estimate corn volume in storage. Multiply the bin dimensions in feet to get cubic feet, then use 0.8 for a rough bushel count or add half a bushel per cubic foot for greater accuracy. It notes a bushel roughly equals 1.244 cubic feet.
Cows typically consume 30 to 40 pounds of silage daily and 10 to 15 pounds of alfalfa hay. This daily intake guides feeding plans for herd maintenance and production goals.
Sweet skim milk makes an excel lent summer food for hens and is often substituted for beef scraps in poultry care notes.
Judge Creighton denies Elgin and Aurora appeal and orders by December 31 1917 compliance with the Illinois rivers and lakes commission septic tank disposal ruling replacing Fox river use. Also news of a prison editor quitting and Springfield police receive semaphore traffic signals.
The Methodist Episcopal ladies class unveiled a new fundraiser after holding a potato social. Each participant brought a peck of potatoes which were planted on donated ground and harvested to raise money for church uses.
The Carnegie library board withholds funds from Litchfield after three years of the town failing to levy the agreed library tax. The dispute centers on local tax support for the library.
Springfield secretary treasurer Duncan McDonald of the United Mine Workers appeals to Governor Dunne to pull state troops from La Salle and Oglesby where a strike is active at the cement mills.
Joliet seventeen year old Ivan Schuster drowned after stepping off a quarry ledge while swimming with friends who could not swim. Five minutes later passerby Boyce Spencer dived and recovered the body. Chicago banker Norman Wait Harris died at his Lake Geneva summer home from a heart ailment.
JLP Lovejoy of Princeton was elected president of the Cannon Ball Trail association of Dinosaurs. The annual meeting at the Galesburg club decided to remark the trail between Aurora and Quincy.
Edward Palmer an automobile salesman lost part of his nose when removing the extra tire from a car as the rim exploded fragment tore off a portion of Palmer’s face. Captain Redden has fever. from San Antonio Texas advices say Battery A looted base hospital there with fever.
Four boys climbed the Belfry of Paruington and found a bees nest in the cupola. They alerted adults and were granted permission to harvest some honey.
Quincey Union labor and its seconds held a gathering at Highland Park to raise funds for the State Federation of Labor convention starting October 16. Letter from Crermany: August Mabelmann received via submarine Deutschland a sister’s note crossing the Atlantic.
City clerk Frank Heermans reports plans for a new passenger depot in Mattoon. The proposed station, budgeted at forty thousand dollars, is to be erected by a railroad company and is under consideration at the city clerk’s office.
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