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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1930
Page
4
A weekly Dolton column offers humorous reflections on social behavior and industrial relations. The piece notes drivers’ cautious spirit around officers, Sunday school plans amid baseball talk, and citizens serving on honorary committees that never meet. It uses wry aphorisms about ancestry, progress, and personal growth to close on a moral about choosing better paths as we age.
Thousands of schoolhouses require police near entrances during arrival and dismissal to prevent child injuries. Parents fear for safety and many drive their kids to school, prompting criticism of motorists and a call for more cautious driving to spare expense and danger.
August Heckscher, New York philanthropist, proposes developing St John County Florida into a locality free of poverty and preventable suffering. He urges education in useful trades and thrift to empower a self supporting generation, warning against unbridled charity and wasteful spending.
The piece argues car theft wastes 20 million dollars yearly and 300000 cars are stolen. It notes recoveries are often difficult, valuables are taken, and thieves use others’ cars. It urges readers to lock cars to curb crime and discourage youth from crime.
A miscellaneous column of quips jokes and jokes characters including a Pullman girl quitting smoking a saxophone playing son a London vet curing elephant stomach aches and sharp witted lines about manners work and kindness. The piece blends humor and social observations with light satire and puns.
A local column argues for less pessimism and more home repair work to brighten the town and boost progress. It notes shopping away from home drains local potential energy and warns that businesses neglecting hometown ties fade from memory.
The article notes winter unemployment gives way to spring construction jobs. Many inexperienced workers lack training rather than strength, and choosing idleness over manual labor is seen as foolish. It cites Illinois success stories beginning with similar starts.
A father advises his son to lift weights while the son retorts about a dream. The exchange pivots to a parable-like line noting that a church’s strength is only as strong as its weakest member.
Mrs Emily A Pinsak of Hessville awarded 7500 in U S district court Hammond for her husband William Pinsaks death when a trailer operated by Great Lakes Dredge and Docks workers crushed him at 154th and State Line Calumet City on November 22 1927. First Trust and Savings Bank was administrator of the estate. The case followed a brief before a jury and the bank had initially sought 10000.
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