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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1931
Page
4
A series of dated social observations notes shifting values and tensions in economics, taxes, labor, family life, and politics. It critiques business habits, stock markets, tax enforcement, forest policy, discipline for youth, dating standards, taxation, labor disputes, marital roles, and the prestige of financial power.
The article reflects on President Hoover’s Caribbean trip and notes the heavy duties of the presidency. It highlights the pressure of leading 120 million people and questions the burden of routine patronage disputes and ceremonial duties on his time.
The passage describes Mrs. Housewife’s annual spring cleaning and the quest for her husband’s appreciation. It argues that cleaning combats dangerous germs and prevents a grey pall of permanent dinginess when labor goes unrecognized.
Henry Ford argues that the business mood is strong but misunderstood, blaming the market’s low sentiment on the speculative public seeking quick gains. He contrasts legitimate investment based on intrinsic value with speculative purchases aimed at selling at higher prices.
Thirty men have been killed and over a million dollars in property destroyed in major prison outbreaks over the past two years. The piece argues inmates are a sore spot in modern life and calls for measures to redirect their thoughts and reform their condition within society.
Despite high urban share 65 percent Illinois hosts about one home per five residents. Illinois residents pay roughly 400 million in life insurance premiums annually. The state has 14 817 public schools serving 1 822 051 pupils. Metropolitan Chicago consumes over 2 million quarts of milk daily from about 3 000 dairymen. Two large fountain lunch equipment plants are in Chicago. Illinois has 400 golf clubs. The longest airline with daily service begins in Chicago.
A quotation from Marshall Field emphasizes that happiness comes from public service rather than wealth. Money serves only basic needs after which fulfillment lies in public affairs. The greatest good is self development to better serve humanity through broad social engagement.
Six month old Mario Lee Foster of Route No 1 Junction City crowned queen of farm babies in a contest with more than 10 000 entrants. The event was sponsored by the American Farm Bureau Federation.
A collage of brief vignettes from a busy scene features a florist, baker, fisherman and patrons trading quips and complaints. The dialogue touches on petty theft, mistaken origins, payment terms, marriage humor, and cashiers with jokes about shopping and social mores.
A fragmented humorous verse set shows a captain shouting All hands on deck as a ship leaks while a sleepy voice jokes about tending it. Brave hearts rush in against fear and a customer suspects spoiled meat, with a meat market proprietor deflecting by noting prize lamb origin. Stockings and airplanes are also referenced creating absurd images.
Three Italian air heroes perished when their aircraft dived from 8,000 feet into the Tyrrhenian Sea. Identified are Lieut. Col. Umberto Maddalena, Capt. Pausto Cecconi, and Lieut. Giuseppe Damonte.
For the first time in 20 years unwrapped bread sold for five cents a loaf in St Paul. Most stores cut the price of the pound loaf to nine cents, trimming two cents from the usual cost.
The Bricklasers defeated the Ben Millers of St. Touts 1 to 0 to clinch the western crown after opening the series with a 7 to 2 victory.
Ottawa announces higher import levies by the minister of national revenue, raising duties on slack coal to one dollar per ton and on mine run coal to one dollar and twenty five cents. The move widens the tax on coal entering Canada.
National Guard brass purchases come under scrutiny as a House appropriations subcommittee reviews War Department needs for 1952. Representative Henry E. Barbour asks how the 874 980 dollar line item for musical instruments is used, and Col. William H. Waldron responds that they are for the National Guard and are indeed blown.
Three Kennett Square men named Allaband each sought marriage licenses at the same bureau. William and Myrtle, Earl and Eva, and Harvey with Margaret applied, all brothers. The clerks learned the coincidence and the trio wed in Chestertown then left for Atlantic City.
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