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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1920
Page
6
Dr. Walter B. Swift of Boston presented a paper on early treatment of stammering at the National Society for Speech Disorders meeting. He cited nervous stress and imitation as common causes in very young children and urged home hygiene and calm talk after fright to prevent and curb stammering within two weeks.
Viscount Burnham hails Charles Dickens as the era’s greatest social reformer and a premier man of letters. He argues Dickens understood the dire working class conditions in London and across the country, shaping modern literature and social conscience.
An ordinance designates Charles Sellin William Lotz Charles Unruh Leonard Diehl Henry Brandt and Frank Stiemann as Board of Local Improvement members for the current fiscal year. It creates a clerk paid 120 dollars annually and sets 50 dollars per member per year. An appropriation of 470 dollars covers these payments, with repeals of conflicting ordinances. May 25, 1920. George L. Koehler village clerk. Chas Niemeyer president.
The text explains that after spring and summer growth, many plants enter a dormancy before cold weather. Prolonged warmth delays this dormancy, while exposure to cold triggers renewed growth. Enzymes may convert stored starches to sugars, or changes in cell membrane permeability could drive the effect. Cold, mechanical injury, or drying can all activate renewed growth, independently in each plant part.
Dr. George D. Hadzius spoke in Houston Hall Philadelphia on temples to Jupiter Minerva and Mercury. He noted Rome’s gods multiplied into countless catalogues for sowing planting and every trivial life detail, rituals choking devotion and priests performing sacrifices with or without spectators. Congregational devotion he argued was alien to ancient Rome.
The Buffalo Enquirer notes the saying that dress does not define character and jokes that if it did there would be many more good men. The item presents a concise aphorism as a humorous cultural aside.
Dentist telephone Riverdale 14 lists office hours from 9 am to 12 pm 1 to 5 pm and 7 to 8 30 pm Saturday night and Sunday by appointment. Office in first Trust and Savings Bank Building 13702 Indiana Ave Riverdale.
A Nashville Banner quip on ancient literature, noting it was written in mud and had to be baked or stewed before circulation. The wry comment highlights historical literary toil and the faded memory of early writing.
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