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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1921
Page
8
Regular services and events at South Holland First Reformed Church. obituary for Gerrit Kramer, funeral by Rev Braak. community announcements on PTA piano purchase, July 4 picnic plans, fire company notes, and local sales listings including vehicles and real estate in South Holland Illinois.
The article traces wagon origins from rude log-dragged carts to the axis and wheel. It cites Moses locating earliest wagons in Egypt, mentions Hiene Yuene by the Chinese, Brichthonius by the Greeks, and Phrygian four wheel carts. It notes chariots in Homer and Pharaoh wars, Greek two wheeled units, and Roman terms like car pentuin.
Lansing Miss Martha Mierop of West Pullman visited the home of Van Der Linden. Mr. and Mrs. John Van Ramshorst toured De Mette Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. John Fieldhouse visited Stillman Valley Illinois. Mr. J. Swart spent a few days in St. Louis Missouri. Mr. Wiednaar is adding an addition to his home.
Warm weather inviting residents to an upcoming community event. The Ladies’ Aid titled meeting is announced for Thursday May 19 hosted by Mrs John Engel. A complaint is raised about vandalism in Oakland cemetery where artificial flowers are being disturbed distressing the display of memorial towers.
Mr and Mrs Walter Oppenhuis with Mr and Mrs Herman Pranger visited the Oppenhuis family for several days. Miss Christina Kuiper of Harvey spent Sunday with Miss Jennie and Mr Harry Schultz. A baby boy arrived at the home of Mr and Mrs D Poort. Miss Anna Cook is laid up with a crippled foot but expected to be up soon. Range Line near nine o clock Wednesday evening saw an asparagus truck go into a ditch in rain. several young boys helped and got wet. Gilbert Ooms held his head high as chatter implied another boy at home caused talk.
An advertisement touts a two month savings plan yielding 300 on $60 000 and promotes a single asparagus bunching and cutting machine priced at 45 that claims to generate 300 in two months. It cites Peter Peerbolte of South Holland Illinois as a satisfied user and directs orders to Wm. H. Sikma Oakglen Illinois inventor and sole manufacturer. Also offers about 5 tons of Timothy hay for sale.
A compact reflection on daily pleasures, comparing modest house-bread with richer sugar-bread to show how simple joys sustain without causing fatigue or indulgence, while larger treats fail to endure. The passage emphasizes steady, moderate satisfaction as superior to fleeting abundance.
The columnist Jud Tunkins notes a woman can charm a man by threatening to drag him shopping. He jokes about how domestic hints affect his work and home life shaping time together.
A 100 pound dynamite blast at a Sherman Illinois quarry damaged window glass and lightly injured John Queens a Black employee. The explosion was heard across several towns and the cause remains unknown. Workers continue building Gary’s new 120000 bathing pavilion at Miller Beach with completion planned by July 1.
We thank relatives neighbors and friends for kindness sympathy in our bereavement and for the flowers and consoling words from Rev Wike Miss Grant and Mrs Cowing. Mr and Mrs Louis E Reich and Family.
The article notes that spectacles were once a fashionable accessory, worn even by those not near sighted, reflecting style trends of the period and the social allure of eyewear.
For Sale 40 acres ideal for truck gardening with seven acres of asparagus, good buildings, and a hard road two miles west of Blue Island offered by Peter W. Heintz Blue Island Illinois. Also a five room flat for rent on Leyden avenue inquire of Mrs Anna Werner 13761 Leyden avenue contact 511. Ten acres tiled cultivated farm land at 134th street near E R R river offered by A Reich 13635 Indiana avenue. Eight room modern house for rent 45 dollars monthly call Dalton 4 or 781. Three cottages in Riverdale offered by A C Reich 18685 Indians avenue Riverdale Illinois telephone Riverdale 560.
Light saring wagon by Henry Greick. Telephone Dolton 368. 1-21p. FOR SALE Cheap Fresh milk goat. Telephone Dolton 394. PLANTING AND FERTILIZING I will do planting and fertilizing for farmers who are in need of such ser vices. Manure is scare and my corn planting outfit with fertilizer attachment plants and fertilizes at the same operation. Gerrit Walstra opposite Oakland cemetery. 50-2p FOR SALE Indian single motor cycle Good condition. Inquire Fred Rietveld South Holland. 50-2p FOR SALE Pure bred barred Plymouth Rock eggs for hatching. $1 per setting. Menno Ridder Lansing MI. 44-10tp FOR SALE 7% real estate bond notes 8 year series. Interest paid semi annually. See A. S. Diekman Dolton. Phone Dolton 4. HOGS FOR KILLING At $2.50 per 100 lbs. above Chicago Wholesale Market Vaughan Farm Hazel Crest. Phone Homewood 65 M-1. 1811 FOR SALE Six per cent gold bond first mortgages on Roseland improved property. See J. M. Gibbons & Bro. 11863 Michigan Ave. Roseland, Chicago, NL. FOR SALE Jackson touring car 1 Overland Model 75 touring car 1 Overland Model 90 touring car. John Fenerte Tel. 317-W South Holland. FOR SALE Three full-blood Holstein bulls Ages 9 months $1.00 6 months $75 5 months $70. Vaughan Farm mile west of Hazel Crest. 48-61
At Theatres Riverdale this week a program features W S Hart in Staking His Life on Saturday. Sunday showcases Eugene O Brien in Worlds Apart. Wednesday presents Elaine Hammerstein in Poor Dear Margaret Kirby.
The Dolton Theatre presents Vivian Martin in An Innocent Adventuress and Fatty Arbuckle in The Rough House this Friday. Saturday features Neal Hart in Hell's Oasis based on The Fighting Parson, plus Dorothy Gish in Mary Ellen Comes to Town Sunday. Wednesday shows William S. Hart in The Wagon Tracks.
Dalton Methodist Church reports a successful Home Coming Week with strong nightly congregations and cordial mood. Former pastors preached. Dr Swift and Dr Thompson delivered sermons Sunday. Next Sunday the pastor resumes duties with morning and evening services. Tom Corwin appears Tuesday night at 8.00.
A Boston Trane script offers a satirical portrait of a cynic who spares no one and relishes turning others mean. The narrator critiques the persona as a social reflex rather than a philosophy.
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