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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1928
Page
4
A satirical row of quips on voters officials and public life. The piece mocks promises statistics and campaigns while noting road funding boons and Armistice Day celebrations tied to sports and leisure activities. It references Cal Coolidge and shifts in political dynamics with a wry tone.
A writer notes that young women and girls show less interest in smoking and bobbing their hair, suggesting elder influence alters youth trends. The piece observes that youth resist adult pressures, while those aged try to shape youth opinions, and that being unfashionable remains a social fault across ages.
In attacks on modern youth, school teachers who know them well are often hopeful. Mrs. M. Owen, author and teacher, told the Massachusetts Parent-Teacher Association that among thousands of girls she has worked with...
The text argues many Illinois youths lack proper guidance at home due to busy parents focused on work and leisure. It stresses the need for clubs and institutions to supplement family life and urges parents to fulfill their duties toward their children's development.
Warden L E Lawes in Life and Death in Sing Sing argues criminals, including gunmen, harbor some good instincts. He contends punishment must change, focusing on honest work after release and appealing to reason to show crime is a failed path.
A column urges local men from Herkimer Mohawk Ilion and Frankfort to visit boys clubs. It lists four bankers three lawyers seven school leaders three merchants three traveling salesmen one contractor one architect one plant superintendent and one county clerk as potential speakers to inspire boys.
Illinois tops the U S in lipstick production. The Elmwood farm Deerfield owns the grand Holstein at the National Dairy show in Memphis. A Bridgeford farm Day Illinois grows a 17 ft 6 in corn stalk. Illinois corporate tax receipts for year ending June 1927 reach 120 million dollars. Central station plants produced 574 million kilowatt hours in August 1928 ranking fourth in output.
The Royal Bank of Canada estimates that about 3,000,000 cars cross the U S Canada line annually and 8 000 to 10 000 stay over a month. Railways figures show Canadian tourism spending rising from 1924 to 1927 with 1928 expected to grow. A note on unenumerated population regions lists Afghanistan China Indo Chinese peninsula central Africa and Polar America. Leather quality is tied to cattle from hill districts due to temperature changes toughening hides.
The Illinois production of electricity in 1927 averaged 866 kilowatt hours per person, compared with a national per capita figure of 676 kilowatt hours. The data highlight Illinois higher per capita electricity generation than the United States overall.
Fragmentary OCR combines report style with verse about crime and lost mittens. The text references murder and theft, then shifts to a children’s rhyme motif featuring Carrie Lou and pink knees as seasons change. The piece blends ominous themes with nursery imagery.
A humorous verse notes how many men start the day using a cascade of advertised goods from fruit salt to breakfast foods and hats to cigarettes. The piece ends with a suggestion that advertising may not pay.
A collage of village humor and social quips with remarks on free speech flappers bungalows and stocky store woes. It bones through jokes about surgeons in places, flirtations in Riverdale, and old maxims about silence and wisdom.
A mixed batch of verses and quips touches on travel to Florida, busted signs, fashion hints for a party dress, simple rhymes, a joke about Jack and a fire call, and a note on marriage and weather. The tone wavers between light whimsy and social commentary.
Boston home economist Helen McDevitt will hold two lectures for women of Chicago Heights and nearby areas on November 7 and 8 at Chicago Heights Masonic Temple. The program includes preservation of clothes washing rinsing bluing starching sun drying and heat drying with actual demonstrations. Eva Hawkins Shanks of the Public Service Company of Northern Illinois organized the events. A Federal washing machine will be awarded free on the final day with details announced at the meetings.
The Zuiderger reclamation is described as the most ambitious waterworks project in the world. Engineers, planners, and funding bodies collaborate to transform the lowlands into productive land, highlighting scale, technology, and national significance.
Riverdale fighter K O Powers 140 pounds stops Tony Walker of South Chicago in the first round after about a minute and a half at Venetian Hall weekly matches. Powers and his father run a delicatessen at 188th Street and Leyden Avenue. many friends witnessed the victory.
The world's oldest letter dated 500 B C was shown by the British Antique association in London. It concerns buying a field in Babylon. The inscription is in cuneiform on fire clay and, when found at Ur, came in a clay envelope.
A humorous note questions why healthful ecxlories and vitamins are packed into foods many people dislike, as observed by the Philadelphia Inquirer. The line hints at public taste versus nutritional content in common foods.
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