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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1909
Page
4
Knights of the Crean Maccabee Business Men's Association meets first Wednesday at A. O. U. Hall in Dalton. J. C. Brookfelt presides with Frank O. Bergold recording secretary Henry Hahn financial secretary Obeldobel treasurer.
Riverdale Hose Company No. 1 meets the first Wednesday of each month at the Hose House in Mightawn. Officers listed include President Fred Ludwig, Secretary Geo. L. Koehler, and Treasurer Herman Dreesen.
G W Spencer Post No 279 meets the 2d Friday at 2 PM and the 4th Friday at 8 PM at the Village Hall Riverdale with Mrs Bertha Sprick as president and Mrs Oswald Obeldobel as secretary Riverdale Board Directors meet monthly Saturdays at 7 30 PM at Bowen School.
A compact reflection on how people form opinions, noting two common types: the pliant conformist and the defiant skeptic. The root fault is intellectual cowardice, with fear of rashness or radicalism shaping belief. Read at Kern and Ripleys this week.
The Democrat Charles E. Reading, a Kensington coal and teaming businessman, runs for alderman of the 33rd Ward backed by a strong local reputation. The paper endorses Reading for his focus on street and sidewalk improvements and support for extending Calumet Electric to Rivervale this summer.
Dr S A Forbes state entomologist Urbana Illinois with a force of assistants urges farmers statewide to join insect tests. He offers expert supervision and guarantees against loss while trying methods to control wireworms armyworms cutworms and corn root aphids including Paris green with bran deep plowing and early soil stirring. He asks for prompt reports of unusual injuries such as wireworms billbugs armyworms and stalk borers.
Notice states the speaker will not be responsible for others' debts. It lists 21 Joan Paun, Berger Station, and promotes RUBBER STAMPS at The Pointer office with claim of very low prices.
W J Bryan writes that Taft's cabinet lacks reformers and is tainted by corporate ties. He cites Knox, Dickinson, MacVeagh, Nagel, and Wickersham as insiders aligned with trusts and railroads. He questions whether the president will pursue antitrust reform and contrasts the lineup with past progressives.
James Delemere an Omaha railroad engineer operating between Marshfield and Merrillan Wis. kept a forty mile an hour train moving after a window shattered by snow and ice cut a deep throat wound. He held the bleeding wound with one hand on the throttle and guided the engine twenty miles to Granton where he was rushed to a hospital and is expected to recover.
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From Riverdale the timetable shows multiple morning and afternoon departures for north and south directions with varied times including 4 44am 7 38am 11 56am and 6 19pm. A note mentions a Business Men's Special.
Eastbound service from Chicago runs at 7.00 a.m. 7.55 a.m. 4.15 p.m. and 1.14 p.m. The same schedule applies for Dalton with trains running once each way.
A Western spirit learns restraint from Chinese outlook as cars travel New York to Paris through China. A Mandarin notes nothing extraordinary in invention and warns progress continues, while the world still turns. A cool wind amid fevered progress, as quoted from Youth's Companion.
The Ladies Aid of the Dolton M E church offers sewing services for aprons comforters stocking bags and similar work Orders can be left with Miss Alma Lund at Lunds Drug store Dolton The earnings go to charitable purposes Help along a good cause
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