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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1924
Page
2
A collage of quips and quotes from a wartime era Trestle Board page. It offers light advice on laughter kindness and self control, interspersed with jokes about work, prices, and everyday life, including references to plumbing, grammar, and social scenes. It ends with a note on American responsiveness to royalty and a nod to Jackie Coogan.
For readers curious about the wooden Indian once outside the cigar store the figure mounted a dapple-gray horse from the harness shop and rode toward the sunset painted on the opera house curtain.
A bride visits a Riverdale grocery to buy eggplants and asks about planting depth. The grocer, shocked, assumes planting. She confirms she will plant them because her husband refuses to egg any but insists on fresh eggs and unreliable stores push her to raise her own.
A dialogue shows the Gay Blade worried after receiving a threatening letter from an unnamed man who vows to shoot him if he dates the man’s wife again. The joke centers on four upcoming dates that must be canceled due to the threat.
Engineers at the Electrical Research laboratories add a third stage of audio frequency amplification to the three-tube reflex receiver. The selectoformer remains usable, tuning via a variable condenser and secondary taps, while low ratio transformers and a four-tube setup yield greater range, higher volume, and efficient power use with minimal extra controls.
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