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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1919
Page
4
An editorial argues that intermittent operation raises costs in coal and other industries. It urges the public to spread purchases evenly year round to keep mines and factories running at minimum expense and reduce unemployment and social unrest.
Airplanes are sold quickly for pleasure use but bankers and merchants are rarely seen taking their families on these flights. The trend shows growing consumer interest alongside limited adoption by business elites.
In a era of stalled labor relief and looming grievances, coal miners wait for aid while politicians seek patriotic fervor for leaders in a dry presidential contest. Corporations label labor as foolish after heavy spending on labor, and a broader global backdrop includes turmoil in England and France with €25,000,000,000 indemnity concerns.
A satirical roundup mocks strike prices and jail for deal makers. It jokes about dancers with shoulders and jaws on gum, notes election claims of victory, and lampoons Bolshevik morale in the snow. It ponders law on strikes, Clemenceau’s wisdom, and Bolshevik riots versus victorious football welcomes.
A call for organized opposition to Bolshevik agitation. Speakers with empathy and economic insight should address wage earners at public venues and on street corners. Conservatives must offer constructive programs to improve living conditions to counter Bolshevik influence and prevent widespread unrest.
Capper's Weekly prints a humorous schoolboy piece on geese describing geese as heavy-set birds with odd features. The narrator compares geese and ganders and ends with a liberty or death sentiment rather than milking or laying eggs.
The Congo is described as the most wonderful waterway system, with waterways twice the Mississippi and three times its population. Professor Dupont, former Brussels Museum of Natural History director, predicted its fertile valleys would become the world’s granary.
A claim that exposing a modern violin to X rays overnight can age the wood by about 60 years to imitate a genuine Stradivarius is discussed. The idea suggests the rays impart the characteristic tone through accelerated ageing in a few hours.
Persian cookery among the well to do is extravagant. Hosts lavish hospitality and feed all servants from the master’s table. Guests are served tiny chickens, quails, pigeons, roes, and young partridges roasted on spits.
Statement claims Jews have longer life expectancy than other races and historically higher immunity to tuberculosis cholera and typhus. The assertion reflects biased racial stereotypes common in old periodicals.
During the great plague in Marseilles four highwaymen formed a gang and invented an aromatic vinegar to rob the sick and dying without fear of infection. The preparation, known in France as Vinalgre de quatre Voleur, later became toilet vinegar.
Ancient Egyptians mastered long lasting colors in papyri and mural work. They ground outlines in lampblack used clay to whiten and ferruginous earths for reds ochres for yellows and greens likely from green jasper mixed blue carbonate or copper with ochre. All these colors prove permanent.
The passage describes a boy named Fir and his mother traveling to an aunt's home. Before arriving, he was told to behave and be polite to all of his mother’s friends. He quickly questions who else he must be nice to, listing Aunt Mary’s and Aunt Margaret’s friends as examples.
Scientists say rainbows arise from light entering raindrops where it is refracted and reflected back to form the bow. The colors produced inside the drop blend to create the white light seen as a rainbow rather than drops lying directly in line with the sun.
The first practical overhead trolley line was built in Kansas City in 1884 using double overhead conductors and a wheel on top of the wire. In 1885 Baltimore added a third rail line, the Van de Poele system opened in Toronto, and Scranton followed in 1886. Earlier experimental systems existed in Chicago New York and Boston.
The article explains that Chinese music lacks written notation and has been handed down orally across generations. Performances rely on the musician's memory and interpretation, with occasional variations and instrument fragility affecting the sound.
The 1812 Detroit capitulation under General Hull to General Brock led to Hull's court martial by the U.S. after his release. He was found guilty of cowardice and condemned to be shot, a sentence later commuted by President Madison to honorable discharge from the army.
Ordinary grapes do not make good raisins. Leading varieties used are Muscatel, Gordo Blanco Muscat of Alexandria and Malaga. Bunches are cut from vines and spread on trays to sun dry, turned periodically. Large growers use curing sheds to avoid rain delays. Seeding is done by machinery.
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