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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1919
Page
3
The 1918 New Jersey deer season saw 365 deer killed in four days, one day per week for four weeks. The total estimated weight reached 35 tons, reflecting a high harvest in a short period.
Wyoming game officials say moose are abundant again and an open season could be declared within a few years. Minnesota remains the only state with an open season for moose.
The text outlines wartime transport needs for an 80 000 man field army. It notes 6229 passenger baggage box stock and flat cars are required, grouped into 866 trains with a locomotive assigned to each train.
An advertisement warns that kidney disease underlies many illnesses and promotes GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules as a treatment. It claims kidneys filter toxins and that wearing fatigue nervousness backache and digestive issues signal trouble. The copy urges readers to buy from druggists with refunds if ineffective.
The piece recalls Comanche Captain Keogh's mount, wounded after the Custer massacre. Soldiers carried the near-faint horse on a pole litter to camp where he recovered and was discharged. Indians stripped him, leaving him bridless, while other horses lay with the dead. Thought alone is eternal.
A Washington Star clipping describes a popular chimpanzee exhibit, protected by a glass cover, drinking watered milk from a bottle in a keeper’s hands. Spectators, including a child named Mamie, compare the animal to a grandma.
Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan ratified the federal suffrage amendment on June 12 as both houses passed joint or decisive votes. Illinois 182 8 in the House and Senate unanimous. Wisconsin Assembly 54 to 2, Senate 23 to 1. Michigan House 50 to 0, Senate close vote. Carrie Chapman Catt urged governors to call special sessions to ratify. New York Governor Smith called extraordinary session for June 16 to act on ratification.
Archangel June 12 The last units of American troops on the fighting front south of Archangel except engineers were withdrawn on Monday and will sail for home next Sunday. They include remaining companies of the 339th infantry 337th ambulance company and a medical detachment. The tentative sailing date for the last homegoing contingent the 310th engineers is July 1.
Bela Kun the Hungarian foreign minister agrees to stop hostilities with the Czecho-Slovaks after a message from Premier Clemenceau. He blames the Czechs for the fighting, saying they ignored the frontier fixed by the allies.
Washington reports that the senate, without a record vote, passed the Kellogg bill to repeal the law authorizing government control of telegraph, telephone, and cable wires. The measure now goes to the house and would extend existing rates for 90 days.
Washington reporters note that the House voted 805 to 4 to pass and send to the Senate a bill authorizing 750 million dollars for use by the railroad administration in operating government controlled lines.
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