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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1923
Page
4
A compact digest of stray notices and satirical remarks from a Dolton Illinois newspaper. Items touch on election politics, railway pricing, school funding, taxes, and social behavior with wry commentary. The piece reflects local mood and civic concerns amid weekly publication notes and ad instructions.
The essay discusses why people crave or avoid noise, noting that children may seek noise for attention and adults use loudness to project social status. It cites examples from trains to a bakery phonograph, and mentions societies opposing useless noises. It concludes that quiet appeals in suburbs while big noises reflect a large nation.
Dalton's John Hausman invites boys sixteen and under to enter the annual bicycle derby on Sunday at ten in the morning. Entries must be handed to Hausman by Saturday at ten, and the prize list plus race route will be announced next week. The column lists likely entrants and notes the week’s bicycle and club items.
The reader asks which to marry, noting a poor plain girl and a rich beautiful girl. The answer proposed favors marrying the plain girl with no money and keeping the wealthy partner as an addition.
A resident of Homer denies claims that I H Morrison and Ben L Hall robbed him. He admits giving money to a business man and says the valuables were returned when he recovered from drinking. He states the two gentlemen did not rob him but aided him by taking him home.
May 29 and 30 mark Poppy Days in Illinois as Paul Gall Post 308 and state headquarters join to raise funds for service work. The Service Department cites over 2.5 million dollars in claims assistance and thousands of jobs created, stressing that poppies purchased under the legion will bear the Illinois department mark to assure buyers against scams.
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