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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1934
Page
6
About 1200 Illinois cities and towns will share 70198001 from the April motor fuel tax. Chicago receives 377053.34, while tiny Phillipstown in White county gets 5.25. State departments move camps and award highway contracts totaling millions.
A regional paving program allocates 10.8 miles of road work and 17 bridge sections in Fulton Ford Cook Jersey and JoDavis counties. The initiative targets transportation upgrades and structural improvements across the five counties.
Dr. Frank J. Jirka outlines typhoid risks by season from June to October with August and September peak, noting higher danger in small communities and farms, milk as a common spread, carriers driving most cases, and ages 10 to 20 most affected. Vaccination is free for residents of prevalent areas and travelers to small communities.
Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark of Topeka is urged to run for Congress from the First district and is virtually assured the Democratic nomination. She is described as young and pretty and one of the most aggressive leaders of the younger set in Kansas.
An Iowa advertisement seeks a missing dachshund with a humorous note claiming the dog is two dogs long and half a dog high and a bit underslung. The piece adds a playful line about choosing cheaper living but not happiness when a spouse tightens finances.
In a reflection from New Youth World Telegram, Civil War veterans march in memory though numbers dwindle. The piece contrasts enduring comradeship with a future where fewer will wear old regalia, hoping future war finally becomes rare and younger soldiers seek new glories in old age.
The article notes the death of Harry M Stevens, credited as the creator of the American hot dog and a fortune maker. It reflects on how the term dog meat puzzled foreign readers and on American taste for playful branding. It describes Stevens joking with waiters when he orders a hot dog and comments on appetite and national humor.
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