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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1910
Page
8
Inland waters may serve as new outlets for cities or commercial routes yet must protect natural waters as a source of food. Studies from Simla show rain brings more positive electricity than negative, with snow even more positively charged. Light rain carries higher charge than heavy rain, though total rainfall correlates with positive charge.
Wm Tyre welcomes a baby girl born Monday. N P Paarlberg to retire dairy farming and expand gardens. Katharine DeYoung hints at wedding gown plans. Swet's Grove 4 July picnic stands to be auctioned for Ice Cream drinks Cigars candy fruit Coffee sandwiches. Bids due 7:30 p.m. Friday June 24 at P Smits residence.
The Ton Family executive committee met to organize the fifteenth annual reunion. The event occurs September 1 at Calumet Grove with a river trip to Riverdale and a stop at the site of the first Ton family settlement.
Coming events list several park and pavilion gatherings. The Silver Pleasure Leaf Club hosts a Riverdale Park picnic Sundays, the Rose Bud Pleasure Club plans a Moonlight Picnic at Dillner's Pavilion on June 25, and the Plattd Gilde No. 71 schedules a picnic at Dillner's Grove on July 4.
The piece profiles Lady Willoughby de Eresby as an American beauty poised for the Lancaster title. It notes her height, gravity, and calm temperament, plus wit in reading and love of dances, motors, and horse riding. It recalls her place among Connaught daughters circle and her presence at the 1905 royal wedding.
Dan Iler a private detective was injured when a picnic train from Elliots Park stopped and released a prisoner Joe Deering. The escape sparked talk of three implicated in the cutting scheme with two others not yet caught. Roads near Flossmoor improve while local residents report on construction, landscaping, and social notes.
At the convent of Bocariente in Spain a bandits raid sought gold silver ornaments tapestries and paintings. Nuns barricaded entrances and armed themselves with old firearms, holding off the attackers. Civil Guards arrived as bandits breached a door. a volley killed two and wounded three, the gang fled leaving three nuns injured.
The New York American writes that heraldry began in prehistoric totemism reflected in painted oars, canoes, weapons, and body tattoos. It suggests the savage’s belief in animal origins shaped the seats of arms for modern great families.
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