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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1921
Page
4
A sardonic column notes Grandmother urges restraint on Christmas drums as disarmament talk continues with closed sessions and stubborn opponents. It mocks European delegates, student volunteers, and drivers while urging silence to hear wiser voices.
Frightful calamities once swept the world with no relief system. Now, amid plenty, organized aid is possible. A society with funds and workers can dispatch supplies and relief parties promptly to save lives during disease, misfortune, and disasters.
The Red Cross is praised as a superb relief machine aiding disaster victims and war orphans while supporting disabled veterans and families. It has softened misery, saved millions from despair, and deserves continual fundraising to meet ongoing needs and end-date drive expectations.
Agricultural sections report a cheerier mood as staple prices stay lower than weeks ago but follow typical fall patterns. Bank reports show farmers paying down loans and reducing floating debts, signaling a sound overall agricultural base despite lingering mortgage pressure.
The chief factor in thunder length is the time difference for sound to reach the observer from various discharge points along the path. The path may cover a mile or more, with reflections from clouds or hills further lengthening the peal under certain conditions.
The article notes Melrose in England at the foot of the Hildon hills is famed for the Cistercian abbey ruins founded by King David I in 1136. It mentions destruction in the Wars of the Successions and later rebuilding completed in the sixteenth century with noble architecture and exquisite tracery.
The Minnesotta Tribune recounts a mother taking Little Susy to church for the first time. As the sermon dragged, the child grew restless and fixated on a tear in her dress. She finally leaped up and startled the crowd, looking for sympathy from her mother.
The article explains drying orange and lemon peels to rekindle a weak fire, noting dried peel helps wake a patient by crackling embers. Peels should be dried in an oven cooling after cooking and stored in a tin or wire holder until use.
Professor Frederick Wilson Truscott of West Virginia University critiques modern speech as a raw age. He argues daily appliance use does not defile English. In a Goethe course on Torquato Tasso, a student quips she cannot get line One Three O Five.
Sparrows flock to the dark blue pulp used by a London wallpaper maker, drawn by the color and nearby canal water. Many birds drown as the pulp is odorless and attractive to the flock, causing substantial damage to the plant.
A Chicago Tribune correspondent recalls Uncle Jasper’s quip after a spat with Aunt Hepzibah. He sighs that only one person is a bigger fool than a woman, and that is the man who argues with her.
In the linen room at Buckingham Palace lies a hand woven tablecloth made for Queen Victoria's coronation. It can cover a table for 200 and has been used only five times. A legend says wine never spills on it and that spilling wine brings ill luck to the spiller.
Manufacturers say most women shoppers select wabrellas more for the attractiveness of the handle than for the wearing qualities of the cloth. To that end fancy handles this season are being made even more fancy. Ivory amber and celluloid are used to make them.
Discussion favors using returning soldiers in a nationwide road program. Counties would reassign partially disabled vets to road maintenance, graveling, and patrolling to create durable, well graded highways for future truck use and better feeder roads.
The article notes that ladies of quality wore masks to protect complexions from sun or to maintain modesty by remaining unrecognized when outdoors. It discusses social motives and fashion norms of mask wearing among women.
A man laments his wife’s extravagance attributing it to her thrifty upbringing. He says her parents taught her only to save money and failed to teach proper business principles. He speaks with sadness rather than anger about the spending.
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