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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1919
Page
4
The piece argues that honest business and mutual responsibility between employers and workers build a true brotherhood. It urges bosses to care for workers and profits at minimum levels, while workers must commit to productive effort and community welfare. It also cites social quips about fashion, pies, whisky estates, and mundane cautions.
The National Rural Conference in Sioux Falls, organized by the U S Bureau of Education, outlines 14 proposals for rural schools. Points include teacher training, agriculture instruction, higher salaries, consolidation of one room schools, public health nurses, compulsory attendance to eighth grade, nine month terms, music and patriotism, community roles, playgrounds, and statewide drives. The piece ends with a provocative note on coal and railroad labor disputes, questioning public stance.
Dr. Harry Halstead, a conductor and dentist on a Chesapeake & Ohio branch in West Virginia, carries forceps and pulls teeth at stops. During a week the train was hailed four times by people seeking extractions, and he complies at once.
Collector Anton Strosin sais informs Riverdale Village residents that water tax payments are due by November 20. The village hall at Riverdale is open Monday and Thursday evenings for payments.
A humorous dialogue contrasts a stork and an angel with a bill sized complaint from a father. A machine to wash the outside of railroad cars as they pass through it is described as an invention.
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