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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1922
Page
4
A collection of pithy notes and quips touching on social trends weather and public life. It mentions Louisiana flood relief Russian gold loans street cops strawberry harvests and leisure activities with no coherent single event.
The Cook County Farm Bureau will lead an auto tour of county farmers to the University of Illinois Agricultural College and Experiment Station at Urbana during the third week in June. It will be a two day trip and the start date and gathering point will be announced later. All Cook county farmers are invited.
An enormous number of cars are being stolen and the theft has become a regular business. The article urges vigilance and reporting suspicious offers, noting many innocent buyers neglect to check a vehicle’s origins and that unreasonably cheap cars tempt crime.
Country residents blame dull homes for youths leaving to cities. They suggest cheer and brightness through phonographs, dancing with friends, musical instruments, and recreational spaces like tennis and croquet to curb restlessness.
A vast 24 mile table symbolizes the Near East Relief effort feeding Syrian, Armenian, Greek, and Jewish orphans in Asia Minor, Syria, and Armenia. American care runs 929 orphanages with hospitals and beds, teaching trades for self support as new waves of waifs join the shelters.
An editorial note from Mansfield News asserts the true minimum budget for a five person family equals the provider’s own earnings after careful observation.
Hamburg zoological head Favors Cagefree 700 Henrick Hagenbeck visited McCormick garden site with John T. McCutcheon and others. He described a 26,000 acre Hamburg zoo and proposed natural barriers to avoid cages for carnivores and isolation areas for herbivores and birds on an island within the forest preserve.
In 1914 Benedict XV entered the Sistine Chapel in the smallest size papal robes, found too large, prompting ready supply of three robe sizes for papal election. Robes and the Fisherman’s ring are altered to fit the new pope as he is quickly clad and greeted by cardinals.
Domencio Colombo a wool comber and weaver married Susannah Fontanarossa. His father likely hailed from Quinto near Genoa and his mother from Fontanarossa. They were Roman Catholics. Their burial place is not recorded. Columbus' mother died in 1494 and his father in 1498.
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