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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1925
Page
3
President William Schlacke of the Illinois Brick Co reports record brick production this year and no winter shutdowns. He notes bricks selling in Chicago at 12 dollars per thousand, despite rising costs, with storage sheds empty and demand staying strong across manufacturers.
An Alaskan mail carrier uses a hand car hitched to a dog team to haul the post up a mountain path. The Detroit News notes the dog car as a unique Arctic invention amid railroads steamboats autos airplanes and sleds hauling the mail from Nome toward a mining camp.
Louisville Courier Journal notes that listings in the telephone book feel tedious to readers and suggests residents may skip nonessential details to glean key numbers and names.
Springfield reports on the 1925 opening of the black bass season credits the 1923 fish code and William J. Stratton for protecting spawning bass. The law requires a three year life span with a ten inch bass, and directs license funds to hatcheries, game farms, and public shooting and fishing grounds. House Bill 657 seeks 600,000 dollars for expanded conservation, with broad support from sportsmen.
The Herald and Examiner's Religious Department earns praise for liberal space given to church news and for reporters who present public utterances of religious leaders in proper proportion, avoiding sensationalism.
The El Moro tribe or El Mole, desert dwellers near Lake Rudolf in the Kenya colony, subsist on lake water and fish. They drink hourly to avoid lips cracking, swim and fish on frail palm raft platforms, and differ from neighbors due to Lake Rudolf’s soda rich, undrinkable water.
A fragment quotes a Benjamin Franklin line about those with nothing to trouble them being troubled at nothing, illustrating a reflective, aphoristic sentiment without context.
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