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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1925
Page
2
A collage of humorous vignettes and odd anecdotes. Jokes about weddings, excuses to teachers, punny shop signs, and light social commentary fill a page of light entertainment. The pieces feature names like Bill Ward and Doc Leason, playful lines about groceries and cantaloupes, and humorous exchanges about courtesy and efficiency.
A collection of pithy, humorous lines on luck work and life with quips about golf, travel, youth honesty and a Shakespearean reflection on potential. The verses range from light moral riffs to a playful poem about to be or not to be and related ideas.
Four year old Robert James Cure caught his clothes alight near 518 Elm Street Thursday morning. He died 28 hours after admission to St Francis hospital from severe burns. Due to measles quarantine at the Cure home services were held at Z Mear's house and St Benedict's church, Mt Olivet Cemetery. He is survived by his parents three brothers and a sister.
Mentor Magazine notes that Joseph Grimaldi began performing at under two years old as the Little Clown at Sadler's Wells and by age three was a regular, while George L. Fox began on stage at five and became known as the Grimaldi of America and the popularizer of Wumpty Dumpty.
The Portland Oregonian reports on a conven tion of grand dikes debating ways and means to restore royalty to the throne. The note frames futility as the central idea guiding the assembly and its controversial aims.
A lighthearted item notes a professor, after returning to his chair, discovers a cat resting there and jokes about having sat on the cat all afternoon.
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