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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1921
Page
3
Dan and Snowbird refuse surrender as they build a crude sled to haul Lennox from a snowy wasteland. Food is gone, Cranston’s debt looms, and wolves watch from the ridges as the trio faces a grueling trek through blank winter and looming hunger.
A historical note recalls the demise of major Montana Long X ranches and the broader collapse of the horse ranch era amid the rise of sheep ranching and wired fencing. It contrasts with premodern Americas where horses arrived with Europeans, were unknown to Indigenous peoples, and later spread across the plains.
On his eighth world tour, W. T. S. McCleery known as Lonesome Mac arrived in Philadelphia. He claims to have carved every creature and object imaginable from peach stones and nutshells. His prized mustard seed features a spider on one side and an elephant on the other, and he has refused a 2500 dollar offer for a five hundred figure cane. He says he has no relatives and proclaims himself the loneliest man in America.
A fireman returning from lunch near the Irvington fire house ran across the street to avoid a streetcar. Two other firemen on the car jumped off and chased after him. Arriving at the fire house the fleeing man asked if there had been an alarm. the others replied they saw him running and assumed he heard one.
A sergeant recalls giving wooden soldiers to a neighbor boy after a Sunday school lesson on charity. He later reflects that the boy cried for them back, and the sergeant vows that day has come for the “lob-sided, mut ton-headed” crowd to receive them again, as quoted in the American Legion Weekly.
Very old trees are noted in Torentain’s Abbey Yorkshire England where trees were aged in 1132. California hosts Mariposa grove trees thousands of years old and Africa holds baobab trees over four centuries in age.
The fighter replies he has a fighting chance to win the upcoming match. The question and answer reflect cautious optimism about the contest.
Gov. Len Small urges a Midwestern conference with Wisconsin’s J J Blaine to cut cement costs for road builds. Three teens die when a car slides into a train near Aurora. one girl escapes. Illinois losses in April total under $1 million, with March boosted by a Chicago grain elevator blast. University of Illinois reports busy year in animal husbandry with 11 thousand attendees across 58 counties. Herrin passes strict search and seizure rules to enforce prohibition. Illinois Central funds yard upgrades at Clinton totaling 650 thousand dollars. Joliet prison carpentry stalls as wages spar over hourly rate. Swift & Co and labor reps plan talks on wages and conditions. Mrs. Cunningham wills $15 thousand homestead to memorialize Lincoln. Stephenson County backs state police measures for highway patrol. Monticello Seminary class to graduate June 7. 36 girls. Carbondale normal school to graduate 124. Mrs. Bailey elected president of the Illinois Federation of Women’s Clubs. Fox nest destroyed leads to $15 fine for Henry Waterbury.
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