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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1922
Page
4
A reflection on post election era with jokes about candidates avoiding inquiry into families, calls to reduce office holders, and notes on schooling and social changes. The piece touches on women’s suffrage, aging leadership, and a humorous aside about ancient humans and fossil tooth problems.
The Cook County Farm Bureau calls Southern Cook County farmers to join a burn out campaign against Chinch Bugs. Bugs hide in winter shelter and burning should wait until colder weather. delaying allows spread and severity. Farmers should burn leaves and rubbish in fence rows and ravines. H. W. Dax.
The piece portrays the Grand Calumet as a storied river with a notorious past and envisions transforming Lake Calumet into a vast industrial harbor. It notes plans for a water rail terminal and an Illiana harbor crossing Illinois and Indiana, while highlighting realty activity, investor interest, and the Calumet Trust driving light manufacturing to expand employment.
The article notes Hawaii cultivates 109,810 acres of sugar cane yielding 540,245 tons yearly, while Cuba with about 1,500,000 acres produces 3,500,000 tons. It asserts Hawaii uses highly improved methods and intensive cultivation.
In Chicago last winter an association of college professors debated a point at a hotel. They went to the desk to ask for an encyclopedia to settle the dispute. The clerk replied no encyclopedia was available, prompting a humorous exchange about what they wished to know.
Naturalists admit uncertainty about butterfly eye spots and their function. Some propose protective markings that mimic eyes to deter predators, though this idea is not widely accepted. notable eye spots appear mainly on the wing undersides.
The New York Sun notes long mourning periods in Sicilian quarters where wives and daughters wear black indefinitely after a family death. Even engaging girls face strict rules, with three years of mourning stated as usual though not universally observed.
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