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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1929
Page
4
A compact satire notes politics affecting business and entertainment, from demonstrations and football yells to stock losses and automobile ownership. It jokes about public officials, farmers, and voters, arguing about freedom of speech and the burden on citizens to support themselves.
Henry Ford donated five million dollars for a technical school and Edison Museum to showcase Thomas A Edison inventions. Ford aims to inspire original thinking in students and visitors by studying Edison’s life and discoveries rather than copying others. He seeks to elevate inventive, constructive minds through this prominence.
An article notes President Hoover enjoys pie of any kind and that American women excel in pie making. It cites travelers finding less good pie abroad and credits pioneers’ wives with shaping this culinary tradition in a land of abundant fruit.
Families embrace pie making as a refined domestic art. The text notes younger women may lag in housewifely achievement without mastering pie crust skills and pie quality, urging pursuit of culinary excellence.
The Chicago Daily News reports starving birds near Des Plaines Illinois fed with over 2000 bread loaves by Boy Scout groups led by an Izaak Walton League representative. Ice and snow threatened extinction but the effort trained boys to engage in community work and public service.
Congress is urged to fund publication of George Washingtons 20000 letters. The piece notes the remarkable feat of writing many letters by hand, roughly one and a half daily for forty years, highlighting pre telegraph days and Washingtons thorough, patient correspondence.
The report notes a tight Harmony girls victory by 8 to 4 over Lincoln Athletic Club’s gym efforts. It also mentions W. Pullman-Hammond appearing Sunday and Lincoln AC planning a spring baseball team with efforts to recruit players.
An agricultural editor asks if cows prefer milking machines in a playful straw poll. The passage mixes humor and commentary on dairy practices and customer service rhetoric amid a light social tone.
A fragment from a Dolton scene shows a missing groom question, a battered boy mockery, a nurse teasing Oswald about a new brother, and a tense father promising a prize to the man who marries his daughter. An architect and Jenks banter over den windows.
The D. and R. Girls beat Matteson 30 to 12 at Highlawn gym and then won their fourteenth straight victory at Tinley Park. They will play Harvey Casey Girls at the German Lutheran school gym Friday night.
A benefit basketball event at Lincoln Avenue School Gym in Dolton last Tuesday drew a large crowd for Doldale Lodge I O O F. Dolton A C Lights beat Blue Island Boosters 14 to 4 and Lincoln A C heavies defeated Harvey Purple Streaks 36 to 16. Dol Dale Lodge officers thanked managers Bob Schug and Ralph Vandenburg and the visiting teams for the event’s social and financial success.
The Village of Riverdale schedules a primary to nominate candidates for President and three Village Trustees. Parties entitled to participate include Independent Republican Party Peoples Party. Polls open six AM to five PM at Village Hall.
A collage of aphorisms on fashion, language shifts, gender roles, and odd curiosities. It juggles lines about ichthyology spelling, ancient fences, a lawyer's daughter, a cynical specialist, a pricey tooth extraction, customer ire, and an April flood tease.
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