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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1929
Page
4
Editor notes and social quips critique stock tickers and spending on tick. Jokes refer to fashion long skirts trains and trial marriages while urging responsibility, education, and home seekers amid dances and dating. The piece ends with reflections on auto lights and starry mishaps.
Secretary Mellon, with President Hoover's approval, seeks congress approval to cut income taxes by 160 million dollars. The plan lowers the levy on taxable incomes of four thousand dollars from 1 percent to 0.5 percent and offers relief to higher incomes as well.
The exchange acts to curb bear selling while acknowledging limited benefits. Officials warn against unreasonably depressed values and urge the public to recognize the country’s greater wealth. Speculation’s dangers lessen as the deflation of the bubble frees funds for industry and may lower interest rates, signaling a strong 1930 business year ahead.
The article argues sectional rancor in tariff talks hurts nationwide prosperity. It urges legislators to weigh distant states' needs as carefully as their own to avoid broader economic decline and industry injuries across regions.
A local crime tale blends stolen goods and untested origins. Police investigate a pot of items linked to a murder, tracing unknown origins as the case unfolds amid rumors and community concern.Authorities pursue leads to identify culprits and recover stolen articles.
Miles recalls Gene MacDonough feigning a heart attack to trigger an auto accident. He aimed to force the insurer to pay his widow double indemnity, remaining steadfastly Scotch to the end.
The War Department conducts extensive tests of khaki colored cloth for army uniforms to ensure colorfastness under summer lights. Uncle Sam aims for soldiers to look smart, as attire boosts morale and draws feminine regard. A neat appearance boosts national respect and pride in the army.
Disjointed quotes show a person asking to be locked up after admitting a crime claim about striking a wife with a club. The fragment includes a plea for confinement and a denial of killing, implying a request for legal custody amid an alleged domestic violence case.
A humorous exchange sets a rookie on a horse as the sergeant jokes about starting together. The dialogue weaves pidgin phrases and comic miscommunications as a dog, a package, and a plan to name the animal appear in a playful scene.
On the Tist anniversary a monument in Freeport Illinois commemorates Lincoln Douglas debate. Illinois five state normal schools enroll 12258 students. Sugar and candy material costs in Illinois factories total 39385174 dollars. Illinois has 18 states with population not equal to electric meters. Only one person taxed above five million dollars annual income. two taxed between four and five million.
Governor Larson announces David A. Baird Republican leader will fill the vacancy in the senate created by Walter F Edge resignation Edge becomes ambassador to France after swift confirmation by the senate two minutes after nomination by President Hoover
The St. Louis-San Francisco railroad placed a new equipment order totaling 14 million dollars. It includes twenty locomotives ten combination baggage and mail cars 3800 freight cars three dining cars and ten all steel baggage cars plus 175 miles of rails.
Thirty persons are reported drowned when the steamer Villa Hermosa sank in the Grijalva river near Yucatan. Dispatches reaching this city confirmed the disaster and casualty count.
William Carlson age 32 representing the Finnish American A. C. won the seven mile national walking championship held in Yonkers.
Edward K. Slater of Milwaukee has been elected president of the Pioneer Buttermakers Association of the United States, with St. Paul, Minnesota, noted as the group’s meeting site.
A colored parson asks Does you take this woman as wife and the bridegroom answers I’m bein’ tooked. Sandy Mac Pat is jailed for intoxication after a judge questions his liquor source. A rejected suitor wryly predicts the couple’s future.
A collection of pithy lines and humorous exchanges includes a safety minded remark, a pun on Sitting Bull, a remark on being a gentleman or a prospect, a transatlantic flier’s rattling bolts, a doctor patient pun, a note on love germs, rifle range mishaps, a bayonet charge, a line about bouquets and brick bats, a Christmas no stocking fad, and a Dalton wife joke.
A quip questions generals bravery with a joke about artists painting them distant on a hill watching battles through opera glasses. The second line warns that neglecting a personal grievance for 48 hours causes it to die of starvation.
Tadeusz Styka, a noted Polish portrait painter, is in Washington to paint a portrait of President Herbert Hoover. The artist travels with the aim of capturing Hoover’s likeness for the White House commission.
The saying urges maintaining a steady mindset when vexed. It links noble conduct in misfortune to true fortune, advising restraint and dignity in response to adversity.
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