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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1930
Page
6
The city reveals a ninth reduction in residential electric rates, offering lower net per kilowatt hour costs for the first four kilowatt hours per room each month. Higher charges apply in Arlington Heights Kenilworth Lake Bluff and Melrose Park due to local ordinance provisions for additional usage.
Public Service Company of Northern Illinois announces the ninth rate cut since 1911, saving residential users about 1,117,000 dollars annually. The bill now bases charges on rooms and kilowatt hours rather than sockets, with rates as low as 3 to 8 cents per kWh, and a parallel small commercial rate reduces annual electricity costs for stores, offices, and shops.
Balboa named it the Sea of the South after 1518 sighting while Magellan in 1520 dubbed the Pacific for steady winds across vast waters. A Paris tablet credits Edouard de Martinville with an early device called the phonautograph predating Edison. Desert nights show wide temperature swings. Maine reports record fog hours in 1907 at Seguin. Earth's quake zones include Japan with fault scraps and sea bottom contrasts.
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