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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1924
Page
6
About six fully equipped electric houses are under construction in the Public Service Company territory. Barrington is expected to see the first completed home soon with others ready for occupancy. Leagues in the counties push electrification, offering plans or cooperation, aiming to make electric homes common in the near future.
The Detroit News reports that some Orientals fear a fox can possess a person by entering between the fingernails, taking control of thoughts and voice. Doctors offer a neurological explanation: fear arouses the unused brain half, creating a conflict labeled as demoniacal possession and blamed on the fox.
A geophone, invented by a French engineer in World War I to detect underground activities, is now employed by the Bureau of Mines in miners rescue operations.
Riverdale Village adopts amendments to the vehicle license ordinance date June 10 1924 with licenses expiring December 31 each year and a special provision for 1924 issuing licenses for eight months from May 1 1924 to December 31 1924. Beginning January 1 1925 licenses expire year of issue and are due from January 1. The ordinance remains in force after passage publication.
An ordinance designates the members of the Village of Riverdale Board of Local Improvement and provides for a clerk and the compensation of the members and clerk.
Riverdale Illinois designates William Ludwig John Zornow August Bonse Charles Unruh Edward Ripley and William Wunsch as the Board of Local Improvement for the current fiscal year. The board will select a clerk at 120 dollars yearly and set salaries for members and president totaling 370.00 and 150.00 respectively per year. Funds of 870 dollars are appropriated to cover compensation.
The American consul at Marseilles reports a remarkable invasion of Moroccan grasshoppers in the region east of the mouth of the Rhone River. The note highlights unusual insect migration affecting local agriculture and markets.
Agnes Repplier argues in the Yale Review that Electra misreads Clytemnestra as laughing triumphantly over Agamemnon’s murder. She contends such triumph is inappropriate and not inherited by Orestes and Electra from their mother, noting Clytemnestra’s composed nature and the peril in testimony.
A terse motivational note suggests wealth follows from smartness and attracting others to invest. It frames financial success as a result of savvy thinking drawing people’s funds.
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