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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1930
Page
3
Santa Claus salutes with a Merry Christmas Health to All greeting as the 24th Christmas seal sale raises funds to combat tuberculosis. The original 1907 Howard Pyle design is now a valued collectible, and most proceeds stay in the local community with some support for national medical research.
A humorous vignette contrasts lack of pennies and newspapers with December cheer. The speaker notes self-declared limits most months, but December brings opportunity to give through gifts like a Christmas Seal, offering hope and health to others.
The piece compares classic methods of spurring stubborn animals with today’s dog racing lure system using electric trolleys to accelerate greyhounds toward a speed burst.
A New York report notes that about one third of high school students fail in their senior year. The piece, cited by Woman's Home Companion, argues that schooling for these thousands offers little opportunity and often results in wasted effort and failure.
Fish of the minnow tribe can eat up to fifty six times their own weight in mosquito larvae in one hour. This demonstrates remarkable feeding efficiency in small freshwater species.
One of the briefest wills filed in Ireland belongs to Arthur Bond Yockney of Lindisfarne who died recently. The document from June 15 1910 at Hill Drop Terrace Torquay leaves all to his sister Augusta with a blunt no tommy rot remark. The attestation clause follows with witnesses’ signatures.
Scientists explain that lightning does not naturally follow drafts unless the air is laden with smoke or vapor, which creates a better conductor of electricity than the surrounding atmosphere.
Memphis Tennessee reports that Joe Martin, once a cotton broker whose hat and coat were found by the Thames during World War I, is alive and wealthy in Mexico. Kin and heirs expect his reappearance to affect a chancery partition suit and settle debts once charged. The missing man faces no current charges. indictments were non true bills.
Seattle pilots on the Seattle Alaska air route must ride a bicycle three miles from the dock to the Canadian customs office at Alert Bay to have papers signed before resuming flight to Ketchikan and points north. The bicycle leg is noted as the most hazardous part of the journey though no forced air landings are recorded.
Compilations of worldwide crime records highlight US lax enforcement. London reports 18 murders in twelve months with 11 convicted and 7 by suicide. New York 401, Chicago 498, across 30 American cities totaling 2387 homicides per Collier's Weekly.
More than 50 natural bridges of considerable size and interest exist across the United States.
General Douglas MacArthur is sworn in as chief of staff of the army, taking over from General Charles P. Summerall who retires on March 4 after forty years of service.
Tornadoes in Oklahoma Arkansas and Kansas claimed 20 lives and injured scores. Bethany near Oklahoma City saw 14 dead and 57 seriously hurt as 100 plus houses were destroyed. Other towns including Ola Arkansas and Victoria Kansas reported deaths and injuries as damage neared a million dollars. In Europe a 90 mile per hour gale killed 12 and injured 613 across France Germany and Vienna.
After ten days of talks the 700 general chairmen of the four big railroad brotherhoods and the switchmen’s union ended their conference without a full program. In closing moments the six hour day plan was endorsed as a way to restore thousands of conductors engineers firemen trainmen and switchmen to work. A second Cleveland conference is set for December 4 to resume talk on a twenty six day month and the six hour day plan with a third meeting including railroad owners stockholders and federal officials to address unemployment and earnings.
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