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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1923
Page
6
The Chicago Commerce issue compared 1893 Exposition era life with modern times, noting shifts in grooming, speed, fashion, transportation, attire, and daily habits. It highlights how technology and culture altered routines, from neck shaving and backless gowns to faster travel and evolving dress codes.
A new large searchlight on Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco emits a beam of extreme power and can be seen up to eighty miles away. It is designed for practical uses including regulating watches and clocks at a designated time and aiding aerial navigation by night.
The passage observes that men deserve credit for restraint as they face pressure. It suggests most strive to remain agreeable when confronted with difficult circumstances.
Harry P Beam a former service man and Armour Co legal staff member is presented as a candidate to be elected. Born in Peoria Illinois he has lived in Chicago 25 years and holds a Loyola University law degree. Beam served as assistant corporation counsel and a longtime trial lawyer with extensive court experience. Col A A Sprague chairs the campaign committee pushing his election.
Postmaster Arthur C. Lueder reports a request from Third Assistant Postmaster General W. Irving Glover to warn banks and businesses to refuse payment of money orders with detachment of the marginal check. Without the check the order is invalid and presenting it should raise suspicion to protect holders from loss.
Arthur Brisbane praises Miss Mary Bartelme in The Herald and Examiner and urges her election as judge. She has ten years of success in Cook County Juvenile Court serving underprivileged girls and would bring added authority without displacing current bench members.
The phrase contrasts missing think in reasoning with the missing link in biology. It suggests parallels between gaps in cognition and evolutionary biology, inviting reflection on how unseen connections shape understanding in both fields.
A reflective line contemplates how lovers often know at the start of a quarrel they will reconcile later. It questions whether that knowledge drives them to proceed with conflict.
The Chicago Bar Association describes the November 6 election of judges as highly important. It notes a held primary evaluating candidate qualifications, with the vote results detailed but not fully listed in the fragment.
The Detroit News notes Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil has seen revolts and insurrections, with Giuseppe Garibaldi gaining his first "trade" there during its secession era. The region, a fertile cow country, now advances in agriculture and stock raising, suggesting a compromise between farming and ranching.
Hardwar on the Ganges is a popular ablution site with the bathing ghats and Gangadwara temple attracting about 300,000 pilgrims each year.
Death masks were common in Europe until the eighteenth century and funeral masks have been found in Siberia Phoenicia Nineveh and Peru. The Java ape man is an early link in human development dating from five hundred thousand to one million years ago. Piltdown man near London likely aged two hundred fifty thousand to three hundred thousand years. Kansas City Star comments modern man may have evolved from a western type while Java ape man is an extinct branch.
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