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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1937
Page
4
An ad style note remarks a new Exercycle sells for $245, promising effortless exercise for the wealthy. The jumbled text also muses on marriage suited to dishwashing wives, European brides, ungoverned children, and a salesman convincing fish to bite on sunny days. It ends with ministers fearing empty churches if six months’ fate spread.
A reflective piece on twelve thousand yearly transient deaths in the United States. It laments unidentified burials and the vanished lives of wanderers, many former children and husbands who left home, never heard from again, and left sorrowful families to face hardship and memory. It ponders the hidden sorrows behind disappearances and the lack of fidelity or purpose that premits such fates.
Fragments speak of children buried in unmarked graves and then vanishing as if returning to the earth. The haunting phrase ashes to ashes underscores the unresolved disappearance that weighs on bereaved families.
The world offers best wishes to the Duke of Windsor and his Duchess after trials and tribulations. Can he be happy after relinquishing a crown for her. There is no reason they should not be happy despite the crown’s hard duties and constant scrutiny.
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt argues that warning children away from certain books backfires as curiosity grows. She suggests reading troublesome tales aloud to discuss real life consequences and show that depicted characters are fools and not worth attention.
A commentary on wedding gifts as a family duty and a reminder of the lasting value of presents. The piece notes a father’s obligation to provide gifts, recalling his own wedding and the bright hopes that accompany marriage. It ends with hopeful wishes and cautions against missteps in the voyage of matrimony.
The excerpt contrasts the marvel of electricity that makes people stop and think with the modern rush to action. It laments how quick decisions, like hasty marriages after few weeks, lead to regret and costly consequences when people fail to pause and reflect.
The house approved nearly 15 million dollars for vocational training. President Roosevelt’s advisory panel aims to map jobs for the unemployed by teaching essential work skills. Unskilled workers dominate unemployment. training improves job prospects and helps industries fill positions.
A medley of jokes and vignettes spans theft and economics parables, dog and master sayings, crushes, college chatter, sports quips, and classroom puzzles. Witty exchanges reveal social foibles and wordplay, with punchlines about money, licensing, popularity, and scrambled eggs.
A light verse notes a country church with faithful prayers. A nursing joke follows about a wife’s triplet birth and a recorder’s office worker, ending with a quip that everything is triplicate.
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