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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1920
Page
4
The passage humorously sketches ideas like moving sidewalks to curb curbside loafers, laments delivery bottlenecks for factory machinery, notes thriving beauty product sales, and pokes fun at stock brokers, prophesying social shifts as a dry convention ends in Chicago. It rails at profiteers and consumer hardship amid evolving urban life.
Magazines tout boy and girl camps offering explorative educative experiences. Camps are costly, yet provide self-reliance and pioneer style hardship. The piece urges equal access, noting youth groups like Boy Scouts and churches run such camps in many places for all communities.
The U S Senate committee investigating the news print shortage proposes penalties for paper profiteering and experiments with substitutes for wood pulp. It also favors a 10 cent excise tax on Sunday papers with editions over 80 pages, arguing against nationwide forest sacrifices for large metropolitan editions.
The speaker argues publishers should raise advertising rates to curb wasteful paper usage, suggesting higher costs will deter excess ads and protect the paper supply.
The article lists committees for a July 4 celebration including Parade chaired by Walter Haines and Finance led by J. A. Alten with members such as W. F. Eggleston and J. Clyde Ellis. It notes local business interest and ads in The Pointer as residents eye parade details and bargains.
A walker in a northern county finds an old man in a cottage doorway fiddling without regard to time. The traveler asks when he tunes the violin and the man replies that he does not tune it because it does not sound right if he does.
A meditation on true friendship as the ability to forgo companionship while preserving loyalty to the divine. We separate yet keep hearts joined, enduring trials as both face a higher presence that tests and strengthens love beyond earthly bounds.
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