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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1921
Page
4
A quirky collage contrasts poetic lines with everyday concerns from digging potatoes and gardening to college life and tax worries. It notes agitators, coeds, hooky kids, wallpaper drawings, and a humorous take on social habits and trends.
Clarkston Washington rural high school presents a range of programs. A student newspaper is published with a bookstore, boys build school furniture, girls plan home improvements, boys construct a teachers apartment, and another group plants a fruit orchard. Thirty five study horticulture and agriculture while forty take manual training.
The article notes rapid farmer adoption of cooperative marketing and a push for a nationwide fruit marketing plan. It argues farmers in 1921 seek direct benefits from improved methods rather than waiting for the grain scheme to unfold, signaling a shift from tradition.
A Columbia University professor tests college students’ mental speed and finds business leaders in an Eastern city outperforming many bright students on quickness. The father counsels that steady, sure thinking and patient judgment matter more than rapidity, urging slow builders to persist like the tortoise.
Cook County dairymen follow Cook County Farm Bureau news that an eleven member National Dairy Marketing Committee will be appointed to study the industry and propose national marketing plans. The request arose from a Chicago meeting on May 8 attended by Illinois producers and others. C Larsen of the Illinois Agricultural Association spoke on organization. Heller and Day attended as advisers.
President Harding, in a reunion letter to the Boston Newsboys Union, calls himself a lifelong newsboy and newspaper man. He notes the discipline, trust, cheerfulness, and voice of a good newsboy drive sales and teach responsibility for many boys.
Dalton notes report state legislators in Springfield press for adequate school funding as many Illinois districts face debt and term cuts. Teachers defend need to protect children while local write ups recount Field Day plans at Thornton Forest Preserve and health rules keep pupils home after illness.
A simple homemade ice box uses a wooden box a galvanized pail and a piece of stovepipe with ice and sawdust to chill milk. Flies thrive in dirty areas and carry germs. Chicago alleys and garbage attract rats and fly borne diseases. Cook County towns urged to screen homes and burn refuse to prevent outbreaks.
A New York lawyer in a local court argues that the verdict is against the weight of the evidence. The judge interrupts, and the lawyer retorts he will speak louder, highlighting a comic clash over proper assignment of error.
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