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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1936
Page
4
A Riverdale column mocks summer life with jokes about daisies, farm boys, marriages for girls, and car safety. It notes engineers improving home air conditioning while lampooning political campaigns and the need for better first aid for the busted.
The article notes historic high infant deaths and cites Queen Anne’s many children as example. It credits medical education, early defect treatment, and public health units with greatly increasing infant survival and life expectancy. It praises physicians nurses and volunteers for their life‑saving efforts.
A campaign against roadside billboards argues they ruin scenery and hurt business. Agencies from state to city levels are urged to act, with Fulton County Georgia cited for removing signs along highways. The measure's sponsor says highways deserve proper advertising limits.
The article argues that billboards and signs ruin beautiful surroundings for motorists in every county, with advertisers seeking to build business goodwill but creating public irritation when placed in offensive locations.
The article highlights crippled children’s restoration through modern surgery and early treatment. It credits International Society for Crippled Children with progress and notes Shriners' active support in funding homes and care, urging broad public backing for this humanitarian effort.
The piece surveys extreme heights from Robert Wadlow at eight feet five inches to ancient giants like Og and Arabian giants from Pliny. It notes legends of giants in biblical and classical sources, compares modern averages, and comments on how brain power, not height, dictates fate.
The United States sends 854 men and women to the Olympic games in Germany. The piece praises the athletes as vigorous and fine people and hopes they place highly. It urges sportsmanship, gentleness in victory and grace in defeat, and suggests international competition could curb armaments.
A collection of humorous vignettes and quips about marriage money work and social misfires. Snappy lines feature a catty wife a weary bookkeeper a nervous passenger and a Daltons business man. The monologue style riffs on gossip slang and everyday folly with light moral undercurrents.
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