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Riverdale Pointer

Location

Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America

Date

May 11, 1928

Page

2

May festival schedule and school sports notes

Viola Reich and Elaine Ohlsen report a May festival at Thornton Grove on May 25 with bus departures from Bowen at 9 a m Health Contest races lunch and parade followed by girls and boys ball games at 2 p m A Tribune photographer covered 48 students making bird houses with Stutzheim and Zehner assisting Bowen beat Globe 16 15 with pennant hopes in play against Matteson May 9 Bryants Harvey 11 3. sixth grade girls beat M Highlawn 37 36. eighth grade play Step Lively by Gladys Bridgeham nearing first act Practice ongoing沈

Viola Reich Elaine Ohlsen Thornton Grove Bowen Tribune Paper Stutzhiem Zehner Tribune Globe Matteson Bryant School Harvey M Highlawn Gladys Bridgeham

I Am a Loaf of Bread and a Cocoa Bean

Two fourth grade readers describe simple foods. A loaf of bread explains mixing yeast water sugar and salt then kneading and baking in a window where buyers choose it. A cocoa bean travels from warm lands to a cocoa mill packing house store and a boy buys it for breakfast.

Joe Canterucci Robert Fiedemann

Beefsteak tale of Rita Riley fourth grade calf

A short, plain narrative follows a young calf named Rita Riley as she is raised on hay and grass, taken to stock yards, slaughtered, and its meat used for frying and meat loaf. The piece reads like a moral fable about the lifecycle of beef.

Rita Riley

Bread Tale From Fourth Grade Student

A short piece describes a loaf of bread made from sugar salt flour yeast and milk. It explains kneading baking cooling and shelving before a customer buys and eats the freshly baked loaf, with praise for its quality.

Do You Know Answers Next Week In Question Box

Viola Reich presents four queries on safety and health. How to rescue someone from live wires, treat swallowed pins, count of gland pairs and their location, and diseases from impure milk. Answers will appear in the following issue.

Viola Reich

Lincoln Avenue School Vaccination Revaccinations

Seven students at Lincoln Avenue School were revaccinated after initial shots failed to take. The rejections occurred because the prior vaccination was within seven years, but the students retained immunity.

Marie Peters

Lincoln Avenue School vs Glenwood boys game 1928

The Lincoln Avenue School team faced Glenwood on April 24 1928 with both boys and girls playing five innings. Lincoln Avenue led the boys’ game 7 to 5 at the end of the fifth inning. Continued on page 3.

Lincoln Avenue Glenwood School Lowell

Dr Davis to Speak at Dolton Fathers and Sons Banquet

Dr Ralph Marshall Davis will address the Dolton fathers and sons at their annual banquet in Dolton village hall on Friday May 18 at 6 30 p m The Y M C A Boys Clubs sponsor the event inviting Riverdale and Dolton fathers and sons A 50 cent dinner is planned Tickets available from club members or by calling Mr Glezen at Dalton 958

Ralph Marshall Davis Dolton Village Hall Davis Boston San Francisco St. Louis Chicago Purdue Ilinois Northwestern University Evangelical Lutheran and Methodist Dolton Riverdale Mr. Glezen Dalton

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