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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1927
Page
5
An exchangee argues there are fewer baby buggies in use than before, while the Seattle Argus contends the opposite, noting most new buggies now come with gasoline engines, signaling a shift in colonial transport norms.
The first electric lighted U S mail air route will run from Chicago to St Louis via Peoria Springfield and East St Louis. Lighting equipment for 24 rotating search light beacons has been installed with 22 already in operation.
United States lakes survey released Monday shows March 1 levels of the five great inland lakes were over a foot higher than a year earlier. Engineers predict the record highs by 1930, pleasing local mariners as higher water allows fuller cargo loads.
The TLindbook of Amencan Indians explains that Indians were not universally used to salt. It notes salt exists in large quantities in the United States and was accessible, though varied reasons influenced consumption.
A four word will allegedly written by a sailor on a blow shell of a hen egg is under custody at Somerset House London as briefs for and against its validity are prepared. The dying seafarer reportedly inscribed May everything I possess.
A Washington Star quotation presents Ili Ho the Chinatown sage noting life as a brief Now between Forever Past and Forever Future. The aphorism frames time as a fleeting moment in a larger continuum.
Ramsay Macdonald the former British prime minister will sail about April 19 for a visit to the United States. He will be accompanied by his daughter Ishbel and will meet New York interests during the trip.
Joliet, Ill. two convicts nearly escaped from Joliet penitentiary as a broader plot to free six condemned inmates from Will County jail resurfaces. Torces and Rizzo captured. Roa at large. two Mexican women tied to the scheme. deputy sheriff named among new arrests. bribe funds and guard involvement alleged.
Marshall Field & Co will erect a $15,000,000 structure to consolidate all wholesale, warehouse and manufacturing activities in Chicago, challenging the Furniture Mart for the title of the world's largest building.
After a 61 day session the Indiana Assembly adjourned sine die passing bills to repeal the primary law and abolish the public service commission.
President Coolidge has vetoed or acted to stop a bill that would raise pensions for Civil War widows, ending the proposed pension increase.
Shanghai reports indicate 800 foreign residents including Americans and Britons ordered to leave Nanking amid fear of Cantonese capture. General Chiang Kai-shek’s forces falter as Borodin poised to dictate in China, while internal Kuomintang strife and looming looting fears draw French reinforcements. Marine Sgt Montague drowns in Shanghai river. Cantonese government pledges protection for Americans.
The four heirs of Commodore Elbridge T. Gerry are to receive estates averaging about $5,000,000 each under the will filed for probate. Manhattan real estate valued in 1922 at $18,000,000 forms the major part of the estate with extensive Rhode Island holdings. The four heirs are Senator Peter Goelet Gerry, Robert L Gerry, Angelica Gerry, and Mrs Francis B. Drury. The daughters' shares are to remain separate from their husbands and free from spousal management. No charity bequest is made, though $1,006,000 was given to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Sir Harry, a sturdy brown three year old, won the Coffroth handicap in Tia Juana Mexico, clocking 2 03 and a fraction. The Seagram brothers of Toronto own the victorious colt as he held off the veteran Dangerous to claim the $84,400 prize.
The Secretary of the Interior ordered the closure of fourteen land offices in various districts. The move aims to save about 91000 dollars annually and streamline land management.
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