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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1919
Page
4
The American Legion forms new posts to enroll a million members before Armistice Day. Veterans who did not serve in the war may pay to join, gaining friends, work help, and a tie to promote patriotic ideas and strong Americanism across the nation.
The article contrasts football with baseball, praising football for testing courage and endurance in youth. It notes rough play is less objectionable and cites soldiers with football experience as effective fighters, while remarking on readers checking for World Series updates and a humorous aside about Prevention Day waste-bin fires.
President Wilson on a Pacific coast speaking tour to promote the League of Nations received a continuous ovation. In Los Angeles Hiram Johnson and other skeptics were cited as having argued sovereignty would be sacrificed and US would join in every European quarrel if the pact stood as proposed.
The Mount Clemens News Bureau changes its name to The Independent News Bureau after distributing Wilson tour reports to 5 500 papers. President Wilson defends the League of Nations stance in California, swaying many to support him and reject Senator Johnson. He explains Shan Tung history, treaty promises, and China’s interests, and notes council unanimity limits on war actions.
The president urges council advice and proposes a three month and nine month cooling off to prevent war. He argues the League clears objections raised by Senator Johnson and others. He travels through Nevada to Utah and finds broad support among Mormons for peace and the League.
Railroad Director Hines appeals for public aid to ease severe congestion as the fall work is vast and rail facilities have not kept pace. He cites six to eight years of limited improvements, frequent blockades during peak seasons, and calls on business leaders and workers to speed freight flow to prevent industrial disruption.
The cork prosthetic legs owe their name to their inventor, a Dr. Cork, rather than to the cork’s composition.
Dispatches from Boston report the American Bar Association succeeded in holding its annual meeting during droughty times, despite skepticism about current conditions and widespread hardship.
Judge Hagerty ruled property owners may seize baseballs battered on their land, a decision that shocks the kid world. The piece notes boys often reclaim balls from gardens, causing stray potatoes to be trampled, and warns of unrest among youths who view lost balls as a right.
The War Department reports two American soldiers, Private Gilbert E. Brown of Bozeman Montana and William F. Taylor of Elijah North Carolina, are still missing in action out of over two million sent to France. It notes the Department’s success in tracing Expeditionary Force fate and contrasts with thousands of unidentified Civil War dead. Relatives gain some consolation from known burial sites that honor fallen soldiers.
The article notes flamingos once common in Florida are now scarce across the country with experts fearing they may be wiped out in a few years. It warns that bird lovers expect the species to vanish unless conditions improve.
Two heads are certainly better than one as the Jacksonville Times-Union notes a barrel of ideas or tasks requiring joint effort and shared leadership. The piece emphasizes collaboration and collective problem solving in a practical local context.
The piece urges practicing kindness as a response to unkindness. It cites the greater law as ensuring a harvest of one’s own deeds and warns against returning evil for evil. The message promotes pursuing reward rather than retaliation.
To remove slight scratches from plate glass rub the surface with cotton wool then cover the pad with cotton velvet and fine rouge. This treatment will erase the scratches and impart notable brilliancy to the glass.
The article notes Polyclot Switzerland where French Italian and German are chief Tanenapfes spoken to Switzer and each predominates in different sections ordering the respective countries and regions.
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