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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1911
Page
5
The Indianapolis News notes paper currency has surged ahead of gold and silver in use, citing a total of 2,503,667,601 in circulation across denominations from one to ten thousand dollars. Large bills exceed 20 dollars in many bank reserves, though few ten thousand dollar notes circulate in central states.
In Jackson Mississippi on May 4 a convicted murderer Tom Shock asked the judge to allow him to eat all the bananas he can get until his execution next June. An officer agreed to supply fruit and Shock reportedly ate forty bananas on the first day.
Beginning Friday May 5 and continuing until further notice the clerk’s office in Village Hall will be open on Tuesdays and Fridays evenings from 7 to 10 p m for residents to pay water taxes. GEQ H Schneider Riverdale Illinois Village Collector.
A Paris divorce judge misnamed the petitioner and dissolved the advocate’s marriage instead. The lawyer remarried his wife to undo the error. In England the Chancery Court issued a contempt order summoning the claimant with the same surname rather than the guilty party, revealing a sharp court mix up.
An advertisement promotes rich gulf coast soil in Texas suitable for diverse crops including oranges figs pecans cotton and vegetables. It claims 46 inches of rain deep soils and two-crop potential with prices from 35 to 100 dollars an acre and monthly excursions on the first and third Tuesdays. Interested readers are told to contact H A Wichmann in Vesper Wisconsin.
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