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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1919
Page
4
An array of brief notes discusses farm improvement, seed stock certification by a Minnesota potato growers association, and the value of roadside maintenance with inexpensive planks. It contrasts postwar machinery gains with postwar farm needs, urging cooperative ownership of equipment to boost productivity. It also mentions Hegewisch bank robbers and the electric city plan.
The Chicago Board of Trade awards 10 000 dollars in premiums to exhibitors of grains and hay at the International Live Stock Exposition of Chicago. The Exposition, to be held during the first week in December, aims to rival the livestock displays as the world's greatest live stock show.
Plan to erect a six story, 225 by 125 foot theater on Cottage Grove avenue in Chicago. It will seat about 5500, cost $1 million, built by Samuel Katz and Abe Balaban of Balaban & Katz. French design with VersaillesLike lobby, playrooms, restrooms, 50 member orchestra, and planned to open next April.
The Calumet Sanitary and Ship Canal linking the Calumet River at Blue Island to the Sag at 15 miles west is nearly complete except for streets needing bridges delayed by wartime steel shortages. Sections 2 3 4 6 7 of the sewer are finished while 1 and 5 are underway. Operation is set for September 1920 with about a year of pump readjustments at the 95th Street pumping station in South Chicago to follow.
The Agricultural Commission of the American Bankers Association proposes a nationwide plan to recruit agents in all agricultural counties to urge tenants to become farm owners. Owners would receive incentives to maintain soil fertility and lasting improvements, but borrowed capital is scarce and key buyers hold influence. Also notes rising raisin usage in bread and cake with a California firm spending over 400000 annually on promotion.
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