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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1910
Page
5
The Atchison Globe urges strict rule following for success. It says not starting work before 9 o'clock or skipping work due to illness shows disobedience to the rules, and warns against blaming luck. It adds that neighbors will know the truth.
Describes Chinese taste for scientific devices. Notes wealthy individuals favor musical instruments and often wear multiple watches and foreign glasses. Highlights popular items include clocks telescopes field glasses and other scientific instruments.
The Blue Island Standard reports that President McCormick called a meeting to strip appointive power from the president and vest it in the board. The change, defended by a member, aimed to balance politics with fairness as Smyth becomes president with a Republican majority poised to limit his influence.
Frederick Demming, a 47 year old section man in Peoria Illinois, has a family of twenty two children all living and healthy. He married at 20 and today his home welcomes twins the fourth set to arrive. Fourteen of his children are singles. He earns no more than 1.50 a day yet says he is happy, content, goes to work daily with a full dinner pail and saves money.
A writer recalls a summer stay in a nearby town where tax officers billed him $10,000 as a personal tax despite being a summer guest. He protested at the office, and an affable official, recognizing his occupation as a German newspaper man and poet, crossed out the bill and gave him 60 cents.
During a February cold snap along the Summit on the Esquimault and Nanaimo line twenty miles from Victoria B C a youth sought shelter beside a railway water tank but froze to death. A hunting dog lay beside the deer as if sharing warmth. the dog survived and fully recovered.
The Forsyth Bros. Company, railroad appliance makers, buy 23 acres from Harvey Land Association near Illinois Central Grand Trunk and B and O railroads. They erect a 100 by 140 foot building costing $25,000 and due to be ready in two months with plans for enlargement. Grossman and Proskauer are engineers.
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