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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1913
Page
2
Interstate rules shield carrier losses to market value only. Reports speak of Bolivian abuses near Peru and U S investigations urged by officials. McAdoo marks his fiftieth birthday and grandchild. Red Cross building plans advance. Wilson plans a Mexican peace approach with safeguards.
The Lincoln highway is dedicated with local celebrations along the route. James J. Hill warns financiers in Chicago that credit abuse and a bond glut threaten the nation with financial distress. Separately New York City plans a housekeeping budget of 192,905,551 dollars, the smallest rise in years. The U S suit to dissolve International Harvester proceeds in St Paul district court before judges Sanborn Hook and Smith.
A Washington telegram to the New York World says President Wilson will demand Huerta’s elimination or US intervention in Mexico. Authorities search Mexico City for alleged plot against Provisional President Huerta, disclosed by two women.
In mid ocean the Patrie burned and was found disabled by the Hamburg American liner Kronprinzessin Cecilie. Twenty two of 25 crew members were rescued, three sailors drowned, with rescue completed near mid ocean.
English actress Kitty Gordon collapse during a company performance in Los Angeles and is ill with pneumonia in her Alexandria hotel apartments. Enchantress company members, fifty girls, are stranded there as the company disbands. Funeral services for Charles G. Gates were held at Madison Avenue Methodist Church and the body was moved to Woodlawn Cemetery for vault storage until the family mausoleum in New York is completed.
Washington signals Huerta must quit the presidency or resign under pressure while a potential successor is named. The ultimatum links to Carranza support and U S aims to shape Mexico’s next government. The war plans and foreign mediation frame the looming crisis.
London reports Winston Spencer Churchill, first lord of the admiralty, flew in airships Delta and Peta near Farnborough at dusk. Each flight lasted about 415 minutes at roughly 1 800 feet, marking a notable demonstration of aerial testing.
Summary of multiple short items: National Editorial association sets April meeting in Houston with Springfield mentioned. Blanche Nelson dies mid lunch in Peoria cafe. Samuel Insull to begin a near million dollar residence near Waukegan. Illinois flood control work near Cairo starts. state civil service ruling excludes Farmers Institute staff from coverage. anxious towns report a demented woman near Princeton. Richland county courthouse in Olney destroyed by fire. James M Pulver found dead near Sterling. Danvers Gun Club formed with officers named. Mrs. Mead of Rio, Knox county, dies aged 84. Mina Youell commits suicide near Jacksonville. James J Muncray dies after 15 years rest. Decatur women fail to vote in franchise election. Urbana-Champaign dean critiques love sickness as indigestion in student lecture.
Cary Maine resident Mrs Hayward Sowers recounts relief from long lasting pain and nervous exhaustion after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says the medicine cured side pains backache loss of appetite and sleeplessness and enabled her to work for her family.
A national committee report finds only six special Sundays regularly observed nationwide: Child Labor Sunday Mothers Day Peace Sunday Labor Sunday Prison Sunday and Tuberculosis Day. Other Sundays align with fixed holidays like Washington's Birthday Memorial Day or Christmas. The report seeks church cooperation for social reform. At that a man's fool friends are about the only ones who will lend him money.
A Southern man recounts quitting coffee for Postum and credits calmer nerves and fewer headaches after about ten days. He praises Postum as better tasting when brewed strongly and notes its two forms Regular and Instant sold by grocers with the slogan There’s a reason.
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