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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1920
Page
4
The piece mocks the November election outcome describing a Republican landslide and swift partisan reactions. It lampoons pundits and voters, noting women’s satisfaction, the avalanche metaphor, and calls for education shakeups while joking about fuel, heating and the effects of new furnaces on households.
The piece argues it is wrong for food raisers to sell their entire year’s crop in a few months to stay solvent. It advocates year round marketing to avoid exploiting farmers in scarcity and to prevent consumers from losing out on lower prices.
A Boston Transcript editorial quotes Oliver Wendell Holmes on sportsmanship. It defines the ideal as bragging little showing well crowing gently paying up owning up and shutting up even when defeated. The piece praises restraint and fairness as the highest form of sporting conduct.
The article warns that inexperienced investors and even seasoned financiers can lose money in speculative ventures. It advises placing funds in local, well understood enterprises or safe assets like banks and government bonds. It emphasizes home community support and reliable local business guidance as keys to safer growth.
The Callahan brothers Mike of Princeton and Tim of Yale face each other as captains and centers in a Princeton Yale clash at Palmer Stadium Princeton New Jersey next Saturday Their mother Mrs Mary E Callahan of Lawrence Mass will attend the game with her daughter Eunice 19 as the family witness notes She plans to sit on the Princeton side but may switch to the Yale side later in the contest.
The article argues that there have been no well authenticated climate changes in two millennia. It contends that human factors such as deforestation agriculture canal building railroad construction and telegraph development affect only local areas.
The Farm Bureau secured 25 cars of No 1 potatoes from Northern Minnesota and the Dakotas for members. Most cars were deemed very fine though two were slightly below expectations. after inspection every car was accepted. Counties in northern Illinois aided the purchase, totaling several hundred cars bought.
At a Farm Bureau Executive Committee meeting H W Day was hired as Associate Farm Advisor. He will relocate to Blue Island when housing is found and will focus mainly on south county work. Day, a Shelby County Illinois native and 1916 Illinois graduate, has long been with the University of Illinois College of Agriculture and Agricultural Experiment Station.
Advisor C. E. Durat warns Cook County farmers that current rations are protein deficient causing excess carbohydrate and fat intake. He recommends protein rich feeds, noting cotton seed meal as cheapest protein source, and explains benefits for silage fed cattle. The Bureau reports savings from bulk purchases direct from mills.
Cook County Farm Bureau members hold wool consigned to a Chicago warehouse along with 85 counties. No pooled sales yet as mills stay out of market. Merchants trim orders to cope with price declines while collective selling could yield better prices when demand returns. 7 070 shipments handled at the Chicago warehouse.
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