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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1912
Page
4
A compact notice lists several fraternal groups meeting in Riverdale and Dalton. Details include meeting nights and times, locations, and named officers for German Oak Lodge 257, Modern Woodmen Calumet Camp 5142, Catholic Order Foresters St Luke's Court 186, Women’s Catholic Order for Esters, George Washington Lodge 189 A U N A, Modern Maccabees Twin City Tent 1159, Brickmakers Local Union No 6.
Riverdale Improvement Association meets the 2nd Monday each month at the Village Hall at 8 o clock p m. Officers listed include T F Kinney president I R Baker vice president John E Schafer secretary and B Wauschmann treasurer. Highlawn Notice No 1 meets 1st Wednesday each month at the Hose House Fred Ludwig president Martin Wilkins secretary Herman Dieesen treasurer.
Women’s Relief Corps W Spencer Corps No 279 meets Thursday at 2 pm at the Village Hall Riverdale with Mrs Emirells as president and Mrs RB Josephine McLaughlin as secretary. Della Deam as treasurer. The Boy Scouts meet Fridays at Park Avenue School Dolton with Rev W K Cissna as scoutmaster. Senior Boy Scouts also meet Fridays with Stanley Smyth as president and Edw Kinney as secretary. Robt Hanvy serves as treasurer.
Alderman Block urges voters to reelect him in the Ninth Ward, citing two years of progress on transportation, harbor development, street improvements, sewers, and school expansions. He credits teamwork with Alderman Chas. Reading, local civic bodies, and the press for gains, and promises continued effort on parks, housing, water, and future projects including track elevation, riverfront transit, and a Calumet harbor plan.
The excerpt traces the adoption of father terms across languages and centuries. It notes English use of dad dating from earlier times, Italian pappa defined by Florio, and cross cultural forms such as Greek tata Welsh tat and Irish daid, illustrating diverse paternal-address terms.
The article notes New York as a leading potato producer while Germany has a far larger crop. It cites the world potato crop at five to six billion bushels annually, excluding China and many regions, and traces the crop’s origins to South America before spreading to Europe.
The notice column lists farm houses with two acres and fruit trees near Dalton for 12 dollars monthly, a riverdale farm stand for rent, a five room flat at ten dollars, two cottages for rent on Grant Street, and a two story building at 136th Street and Indiana Avenue for rent or sale. Also items for sale include a nearly new Ford, a rubber tired survey, a building for sale, rhubarb roots, eggs for hatching, mushrooms, a motorcycle, lath for fencing, a graphaphone and records, carved rock pullets, gas store, a mahogany piano, and more small ads.
A lengthy list of real estate offerings across Starke and Porter counties and nearby towns. Items include 20 acres muck land near Knox Indiana, 35 acre farm with stock and tools, a two story store with flat in Hazel Crest, 80 acre farm options, 94 acre farm in Dolroy, a poultry farm on Calumet river near Harvey, and several Riverdale and Dalton lots. Prices range from $900 to $3,500 with terms noted. Contact addresses listed at The Pointer office and individual brokers such as N. Whitney, A. Reich, and J. C Ton.
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