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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1913
Page
3
An East End resident jokes about a speaking acquaintance, claiming she knows the woman next door so well she does not speak to her at all. The remark captures a piquant social quip about proximity and politeness in neighborhood life.
An advertisement claims Lewis' Single Binder 5c cigars offer superior richness and value, asserting many smokers prefer them to 10e cigars due to quality.
Secretary of State William J. Bryan of Nebraska. War Linsley Garrison of New Jersey. Navy Josephus Daniels of North Carolina. Treasury William G. McAdoo of New York. Attorney General James C. Reynolds of New York. Interior Franklin K. Lane of California. Postmaster Albert S. Burleson of Texas. Commerce William C. Redfield of New York. Agriculture David F. Houston of Missouri. Labor William B. Wilson of Pennsylvania. Three picks were new to cabinet talk: Lane, Houston, and Garrison.
The United States files a civil anti trust suit in Trenton New Jersey seeking dissolution of the Coates interests British thread monopoly including the American Thread Company. Evidence aims to show excessive profits on every spool for American households. The suit, under the Sherman act, is signed by Attorney General Wickersham and James A Fowler. In New York the same day, a second suit targets the coal tar trust.
John Brunnen a 26 year old marble worker fell from the seventeenth floor into an elevator shaft in the new Municipal building in Park Row Monday. He was conscious and rolling a cigarette when an ambulance from Hudson Street hospital arrived. He suffered fractures to both leg bones and a light scalp wound.
Mexican soldiers patrolling the Mexican side fired a few shots over the international line on Monday. Bullets landed in El Paso but no injuries were reported. Col. John N. Vasquez of the Juarez garrison said none of his troops were in the area.
Capt Randolph Smith, designer of the Confederate flag, died suddenly at his Raleigh home Monday night. He was in his eightieth year and had not been previously ill.
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