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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1917
Page
7
Classified notices show positions for girls with steady pay from 1.60 to 1.90 daily and a request for a woman to wash and clean plus a student helper on Saturdays. Contacts include Asbestos Shingle Co Riverdale and Bolton address 522 Grant Street with phone Dolton 264.
Classified notices offer 5 acre lot near 147th and Panhandle for 900 cash secondhand houses from Vaughan Riverdale and Lansing Bank Lansing 6. Farm seeks 10 to 30 acre rental in Thornton township The Pointer Riverdale. Highlawn lots 175 each A C Reich Riverdale 16 acre farm with 7 room brick house water electric inquire Lansing State Bank. Leyden Ave cottage 7 rooms to be moved. Small farms near Forest Park Preserve A S Diekman Dolton office. 8 room house two lots 50 by 175 bargain The Pointer office Atlantic street lots 200 each Macadam street Reich. Want buyers for small farms near Riverdale Reich. Blacksmith shop 189th Leyden to be moved inquire St Marys Church parsonage.
Miscellaneous notices for housing and goods listed by location and contact. Includes boarders wanted at 231 Lincoln Avenue Dalton and items for sale such as a Twin Indian Motorcycle with electrical equipment, billiard table, cattle, encyclopedias, horses, Ford cars, an iron safe, shade trees, and hogs. Contacts include Pointer office Chase Schnoor A. F. Luebker Calumet Construction Vaughan Farm P. J. VanDrunen and others in Illinois towns.
A Provencal paper staffer in 1864 staged a hoax during the Austria Germany Denmark conflict. An early morning mock dispatch claimed “The Enemy Have Taken Umbrage” from a fictitious place on the North Sea. The spoof prompted days of town talk as the hoax spread.
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