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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1931
Page
4
A playful critique sketches how people chase opportunity yet miss it amid worries and distractions. It notes golf teachers urging focus on the ball while sports fame shifts attention, and colleges spawning captains of industry yet lacking soldiers of industry to follow. It comments on gardening, romance in matrimony, tanning leather styles, and social pressures, ending with a quip on patriotism fading as cars dominate leisure.
The Jefferson Davis statue unveiled in Washington's Statuary Hall signals a new era, with the Civil War controversies deemed past and the nation burying old disputes while paying tribute to a once prominent Confederate leader.
The secretary of the treasury announces the government will borrow 800 million dollars on year notes yielding 8.4 percent interest. It is viewed as a safe investment despite a lower rate, with strong confidence in the U S solvency and a likely premium on the issue.
Daylight bank robberies have increased about 60 percent so far this year compared with 1980. State police forces were recently urged to take action and coordinate a stronger response.
Kansas Bankers Association calls intensified use of radio to spread swift descriptions of thieves and getaway cars after bank robberies. They warn insured losses should not reduce pursuit and note undetected crimes spur more robberies nationwide.
Report notes aviators completed an air route of about 3 000 miles with only two slight injuries during recent army maneuvers. Emphasizes careful training and strict discipline reduce aviation risks while stunt flying and poor training cause fatalities. urges weather-based cover to boost public confidence in air travel.
Idaho senator and foreign relations chair Borah urged swift government action to fix the silver price slump. He argued lower silver values depress world buying power, curb trade, and double debts of silver-based economies, noting many states rely on silver for credit and that only governments can resolve the issue.
The article breaks down the average life insurance dollar showing 19 cents for expenses and taxes, with 81 cents to policy holders and reserves. It details investment allocation: 43 cents in real estate mortgages, 23 cents in railroad securities, 13 cents in loans to policyholders, and notes the impact on employment and prosperity.
Six express trainloads of straw berries totaling 192 cars valued at about 384000 were shipped in one day from the Louisiana strawberry belt over the Hanvis Central System. The 1920s crop was a record and the season was expected to total nearly 5000 cars with growers hoping for about ten million dollars in value.
A collage of quips and sketches moves through jokes about crime and cleaning, manners and coffee, work humor and daily life. Characters trade lines on topics from vacuum cleaners to incinerated dignity and morning routines.
Exchange notes that racial pride can be good when it boosts self respect but harmful if it makes a man feel superior to others.
Britain reports 250 087 unemployed in the week ending May TS, the highest total this year. The figure is 26 574 lower than the prior week but higher than the same week in 1930.
Walter Jones national commander of the Spanish American War Veterans in 1915 and 1918 died at his summer home in Westport Connecticut at fifty four years old.
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