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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1930
Page
4
A Dolton weekly column compiles a string of satirical quips on education radio illiteracy taxes crime and sports. It lampoons stock trading floods oratory illiteracy and youth culture with playful lines about walking shoes fish lines and rolling stones.
The article argues indoors workers cannot see how to obtain sun tan. It notes outdoors youths enjoy swimming and sports, gaining browner skin. It urges more outdoor activity like tennis golf and ball grounds to achieve a healthy sun tan and closer contact with nature.
The piece notes 3,000,000 unemployed in the United States and 7,000,000 in the Soviet Union. It argues government ownership of all industry would worsen unemployment, as political pull would determine jobs, while in the U S merit often secures work despite idle labor.
The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce says 15 million dollars will be spent this year to remove unsafe cars from roads. Owners of decrepit cars may listen when asked to give up their antiquated machines as such cars can fail suddenly and cause costly accidents.
Disjointed narrative blends quips about theft and investing a con man warning. Mentions Wilbur in New York and a lie detector machine at a hospital. References Riverdale and Dalton husbands doing more kitchen work. The tone feels like a lighthearted local page feature with scattered dialogue fragments.
A collage of light anecdotes and sketches from a rural setting. It features a farmer’s daughter with tools blamed on a faulty milking machine, humorous exchanges about marriage, secrecy in engagements, and playful classroom editorial antics.
A Boston Herald text notes that steamship liners in the transatlantic tourist trade carry substantial seafood loads per trip, including 8,000 clams, 200 crabs, 500 barrels of oysters, and 1,500 pounds of fresh fish, while a clerk rejects a counterfeit bill.
Illinois, known as Egypt in the south, tops oil output and electricity transmission with 10,600 miles of high voltage lines. Shurtleff College at Alton, founded 1827, is the oldest in the state. Illinois leads bakeries, and the 1882 electric light equipped Pennsylvania Railroad runs Chicago to New York. The Pittsfield Building in Chicago soars to 557 feet as the state's tallest structure.
The church season of Lent emphasizes self denial in contrast to world ideas of self enjoyment. Selfish living shrinks the soul while denying oneself for a higher good strengthens will, broadens vision, and fosters sympathy and happiness.
A fashion expert notes changing beauty standards as tanning grows in popularity. The article observes a shift from pale skin to browner complexions with many women appearing tanned or even dark, contrasting with Indoors living and coppery-toned old Indian skin.
Miss Tirdeena Gowen of San Francisco is honored by Germany for being appointed to the educational council of Berlin. She is the first and only American woman to receive this distinction from the Prussian minister of arts and sciences.
A collector accuses a purchaser of being behind on piano payments. The purchaser cites the ad slogan Pay as you play. The teacher prompts children to observe James hands for cleanliness. James explains his mother makes him wash breakfast dishes each morning.
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