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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1925
Page
11
Washington rumor links Secretary of the Treasury Mellon to a spring retirement. Belief cites expected passage of a tax revision, progress on funding foreign debts, and a favorable moment as Mellon nears seventy with broad business ties.
The Navy Department provides facilities to Dr. Edwin R. Scott of San Francisco for experiments described as a promising new warfare method. The device, likened to the European death ray, uses ultra violet rays and could, Scott says, set fire to dead trees burn holes through two inches of steel at a distance of 20 miles.
A Colon labor gathering was suppressed by the governor after incendiary communist handbills circulated. The Panamanian government decreed expulsion of all undesirable aliens. Labor leaders include Mexican, Peruvian, and German communists demanding lower rents and cheaper food.
Parliament heard official plans for naval construction through 1929-30. The program calls for 27 destroyers 238 O type submarines one fleet submarine five gunboats and various auxiliaries. Estimated cost totals £58 million about $290 million.
The Grain Marketing company formed to aid farmers by cooperative grain selling dissolves into the four marketing firms it helped create after failing to raise 4 million dollars to exercise options on their plants.
Life presents a study of man versus his surroundings where saving and wise investments empower the individual to shape his family's economic future through disciplined choices and foresight.
A Chicago club tale follows Arthur J. Vincent, once pink-cheeked and shy, who rises in a room crowd through coal trading and squash. The doorman recalls his aging, changing image, a divorce, and eventual wealth with a North Shore place, a Rolls, and his lingering presence at the club before a fatal act.
A group of about thirty engineers from Sampel Insull managed utilities toured major area facilities last Thursday. They lunch at St Thomas Hotel Chicago Heights then inspected American Manganese Steel Company and Calumet Steel Company plants, the Public Service Company sub station on Orr Road, and Acme Steel in Riverdale. Northern Illinois Public Service engineers joined the delegation during the excursion.
Max Maretzek, famed impresario, travels from Cincinnati to Baltimore and buys a sausage and rye bread. Christine Nilsson teases him for the meal, Maretzek pockets the scraps and sleeps. Around 2 a.m. Nilsson wakes him and asks for the bread and sausage in his pocket.
The article notes the Red Sea remains about the same width as in biblical times, estimating a breadth ranging from 100 to 200 miles. It presents a historical comparison without specifying new measurements or events.
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