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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1941
Page
7
The article extols roadside tourist cabins as a permanent, modern, clean, and convenient alternative to hotels. Cabins offer private beds, baths, and kitchens with in many cases on site commissaries, landscaped lawns, and prompt turnover. It notes their appeal to travelers of modest means and praises their comfort and homelike amenities.
The text traces music from vocal chants of sacred texts to primitive instruments. It notes the progression from singing and storytelling to constructed pipes, tabor edges, lyres, dulcimers, harpsichords, and the emergence of violin, guitar, and piano, ending with a mother's kettle song nostalgia.
A collection of home cooking notes including blueberry dumplings with sugar butter and hot water simmered in a covered pot, a pork noodle bake with tomato pulp and cheese, horseradish sauce served with meats, a stain removal tip using hartshorn and water, a lightning shock first aid reminder, and pantry suggestions for lightened grease.
A collection of quips and witticisms on daily life and social quirks. Notes poke at marriage, fashion, teeth, work, and humor about brains and gasoline use in Illinois.
Lowell Mason born in Medford Massachusetts in 1792 was a self taught musician who learned many instruments over twenty years. He led his village choir at sixteen and moved to Savannah at twenty to work as a bank clerk where his hymn tunes gained wide publication. The Handel and Haydn Society published his collection enabling the society to endure a publishing slump and he later led church music in Boston. He founded conventions for music instructors and was the first American to receive a Doctor of Music degree from the University of New York. He died in Orange New Jersey in 1872.
A reflective verse pleads for peaceful dreams and a better world while acknowledging dreams fade at dawn. It contrasts hopeful visions with reality and notes social observations about dress and family discipline across generations.
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