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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1916
Page
4
Classified items listed include sale notices and requests for ads with rates of six cents per line for display ads and six cents per line for cards of thanks memorial poems and resolutions. Communications should be sent to the Riverdale Indiana office for publication.
An industry notice outlines sharp price hikes in inks up to 75 percent, paper around 50 percent, and supplies and type about 50 percent, with engraving materials soaring over 200 percent. It urges buyers to compare these figures and push for fair pricing with printers.
Public health bulletin warns that mouth contact with nonfood items risks illness. It notes sanitary instruction can be more effective than laws, urges tuberculin awareness, cautions on alcohol use, promotes outdoor exercise, warns mouth breathing harms children, and asserts smallpox is preventable.
Frank Kasten of this city who led 1800 brick yard workers on strike in Brazil Indiana was praised by the mayor for his conduct. Delegates to the United Brick and Clay Workers union met with him during a convention transit and he was introduced as the next union president.
General Chemical company acquired eighteen and a half acres in two parcels along the Calumet river at 128th Street for about 73 000. W A Douglas sold twelve acres with 62 in revenue stamps and Anna M Hedstrom sold about six and a half acres with 10 in revenue stamps. Title began with John M Cameron who later transferred to the company. No plans were announced for the property intended for future use.
The Navy Consulting Board has completed an industrial survey to identify manufacturing firms usable in war. The formal board includes Thomas A Edison as chairman and a six member committee was named to choose a site for a $1 500 000 experimental laboratory in Chicago.
Used cars of makes including Studebaker Buick Rambler Peerless Stoddard Dayton offered for immediate delivery in perfect mechanical condition. Prices range from 175 to 700 dollars with guarantee and service. See them before you buy elsewhere at 1148 Michigan Avenue Roseland.
Offered are 6 percent first mortgages on real estate in the Roseland area. Mortgages are carefully prepared and selected at 30 to 50 percent of property cash value. Seller has 20 years in the business and invites inquiries by mail or phone.
Classified page lists multiple employment ads including girls and boys wanted for clerical work sewing and general store tasks, a stenographer, and a cleaner helper. Also offers numerous rental and sale notices for farms, houses, building, and land around Dolton Riverdale Oak Glen Lansing and nearby towns with contact details and prices.
Mrs Carl Wolff, 602 Irwin Avenue Dolton, offers numerous plumbers supplies and equipment. Items include one new spring wagon and one hand power plumbers sewer pump MRS. Dolton telephone 486.
Herbert Horton of Dolton advertises a large stock of kindling wood and beech and maple blocks suitable for fireplaces and furnaces with a listed price of 194 cents.
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