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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1922
Page
4
Card of thanks and memorial notices appear in the local column noting gratitude from families and organizations. The notices acknowledge enduring memory, express appreciation for support, and record resolutions or acknowledgments from communities and groups.
A satirical roundup notes changing social habits and urban signs of modernity. It references family life games and bridges, Ireland borrowing funds, golf balls used to smuggle liquor, rising automobile accidents, Congress debates, and Internal Revenue raids with a light humorous tone. It closes with comments on thrift, stock fraud, and daughters leaving home to help with chores.
Huston Thompson of the Federal Trade Commission warned that business bribery has greatly increased since the war. The practice takes many forms and involves firms offering favors or valuable considerations to gain commercial advantage, undermining merit and harming honest firms and workers.
Interest grows in potato raising across many localities including the northwest where farmers are described as potato mad. Potatoes are a nutritive vegetable with strong historical use by the Irish and Germans. If handling methods are advertised, American consumption could rise this season.
A 1921 health column decries high diphtheria mortality and urges widespread use of the Schick test in schools, along with toxin and antitoxin for susceptibles and early antitoxin for the afflicted. It notes a Howard Freshman health survey showing fewer defects and underweight due to school hygiene measures.
The Chicago city council earmarked 123000 in its annual budget for Lake Calumet Harbor work including engineers and staff. Forty thousand is set for legal actions and another forty thousand for land purchases. The harbor proposal was championed by The Calumet Record editor before the Busse harbor commission on March 8, 1908, with 10000 copies of the address circulated by local business groups.
A new Home Nursing course taught by Red Cross nurse Miss Tauber runs one hour weekly for grades five through eight, with twenty three lessons planned through June. The community library, enhanced by the Illinois traveling library and a $100 donation, now serves many readers, while milk distribution and weigh scales proposals are noted.
Public record shows the West Hammond Trust & Savings Bank in Illinois closing March 10 1922 with total resources and liabilities of 458 191 41 dollars. The report lists loans on real estate other loans U S government securities and deposits including time and demand deposits. Cash and other resources plus fixed assets appear under total resources with a cashier's oath certified March 17 1922 by notary Andrew J. Stachowicz.
The article warns that cigar oil remains in the smoke and condenses at the cigar end. It advises never smoking a cigar to the last inch, as this can cause smoker's throat. Some connoisseurs discard at three quarters to avoid the bitter taste and throat irritation.
A London newspaper Time and Tide is owned and controlled entirely by women, reflecting a pioneering women led press in the capital. The publication emphasizes women’s perspectives in news, culture, and public life.
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