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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1918
Page
4
The Daily Calumet notes that a former Calumet river police boat was retired as seaworthy conditions declined. Now city needs prompt reintroduction with officers, harbormaster, and business leaders urging aldermen to act and deploy available boats.
The Kaiser as a Business Man argues that in Germany the state owns most railways and that if leaders choose crops like sugar beets over wheat, grain shipping rates favor beet producers. The piece claims the Kaiser and allies profit from the sugar trust while soldiers abroad and Liberty bonds at home support the regime.
The order mandates dry measure sales for berries and small fruits by bushel or smaller units and requires containers to match standard capacities. It lists capacities in cubic inches and sets marking requirements for boxes and baskets. The rule, issued in Springfield on March 9 1915, is signed by William H Stead Director of Trade and Commerce.
In a letter to Secretary Lane, President Wilson expresses hearty approval of plans to raise funds through a home garden army. He hopes every school will furnish a regiment of 5,000,000 children to grow produce valued at $000,000,000.
The piece contrasts American and German practices with a farmer defending land in the United States by posting no trespassing signs while a Kaiser would order the farmer to hunt for him in Germany. It warns that a Liberty band backed gun would force Wilhelm to heed the landowner.
A collage of classified sale notices and small ads. Listings include 150 acres in Lansing for sale in 20 or 40 acre tracts with flexible terms, a 5 acre lot near 147th and Panhandle, secondhand houses cheap, small farms within 15 miles of Riverdale, Atlantic Street lots at $200, Highlawn lots at $175, household goods bargain, S G White Leghorn eggs for hatching, a four room cottage at 3312 South Park Ave, screen repair estimates, hogs for killing, a horse listings, and seed potatoes at Schaack's Store with phone contact.
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