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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1931
Page
4
A compact weekly Dalton column critiques July Fourth behavior calling for safer celebration and open minds. It jokes about bathing costumes, vine women, and ears and tongues while warning graduates about distant jobs and urging restraint with money and gambling schemes.
The essay notes rain and drought shift fortunes for farmers across the nation. It contrasts eastern floods with northwest droughts and midwest shortfalls, highlighting how seasons temper hopes and heartbreak. It cites a recent Sunday in Riverdale where rain fell east of Gary to Fort Wayne, Indiana, about 50 miles wide.
Governor Roosevelt of New York appeals to the Advertising Federation to boost government publicity. Newspapers nationwide report on local, state, and federal efforts, praising successes and highlighting shortcomings. Government ads reach broad audiences, largely free, prompting broader reader engagement.
Citizens overlook business notices and fail to learn how public service costs could be reduced. This neglect resembles shoppers who pay higher prices for items they could have obtained cheaper by reading ads and notices.
Mayor Walker of New York told an Advertising Federation of America meeting that real wealth remains as abundant as in 1928 and 1929, but fictitious value from speculation has vanished. He urged advertising to lure hiding capital back into productive use and notes bank reserves have grown.
President Hoover and ex president Coolidge led the dedication at Marion Ohio for the memorial to the late President Harding. The piece defends Harding against harsh posthumous attacks and notes his personal honesty and duties while acknowledging real achievements amid controversy.
Sympathy pours in for the Nau tilus crew as engines fail and batteries go dead during the crossing of the Atlantic on the first leg of a perilous under ice expedition toward the North Pole. The tow across the sea tests their resolve and grit amid historic exploration challenges.
Madame Schumann Heink, famed contralto, has just received many congratulations on her 70th birthday. The article notes her blend of public triumphs with devotion to home life, praising her as a home lover despite a brilliant career and spotlight.
A collection of humorous lines and quips ranging from social observations to wordplay. It includes remarks on love letters, politics, marriage, aging, and fashion, with playful critiques of authorship and governance. The tone mirrors a light, conversational newspaper gab.
A Dagenham Essex tombstone bears verses: Here lies John Steere Who, when living, brewed good beer. Turn to the right, go down the hill- His son keeps up the business still. A husband and wife quip about bread and dough. The line About will and willingness closes the vignette.
An aging minister delivering a funeral eulogy quips that the deceased is only a shell while an elephant interrupts by stepping onto fresh cement, prompting a humorous clash of wordplay and surprise.
The fragment lists several Illinois achievements and notes from Belvidere to Chicago. It mentions the first domestic sewing machine with two spools, asparagus rust inoculation by Edward C. Kline, movable greenhouse invention, and archaeologist Dr. Fay Cooper Cole calling Illinois key in American archaeology. It cites Chicago wholesale power, El Greco painting in the Chicago Art Institute, the Odd Fellows lodge in Alton founded by Thomas Wildey, the long Mississippi Valley tunnel through the Ozark hills in southern Illinois at 6,985 feet.
A man named Jones is astonished to find a death notice about him in a daily paper and calls a friend to verify. The exchange ends with a pun involving an egg in a monastery and a fryer's fate.
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