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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1921
Page
4
A satirical look at changing fashions and public reactions as skirt lengths shrink in the near future. The piece lampoons politicians, office staff, voters, and teachers as it playfully mirrors social assumptions and daily life during world events.
The article notes hunting is driven by deep instinct and distant travel by car to reach hunting grounds. It acknowledges growing scarcity and mixed public opinion preferring wildlife undisturbed, but asserts hunting as a persistent practice tied to human ancestry.
The article states hunting deer or wild duck is a legitimate food source and a relief from routine. It claims the challenge of tracking game sharpens the mind, and most men return to work rejuvenated by the trip, with renewed vigor from the woods.
The passage argues that world series games stir extraordinary emotion across races and nations in the homeland crowds. It credits Americans for competition and skill, noting fans' loyalty to home players and the deep joy or despair tied to wins and losses. It asserts such achievement instinct helps a people rule the world.
Illinois Agricultural Association reports three major limestone suppliers cut prices following freight rate drops by I C and C E L railroads. State and county farm bureaus push for lower limestone costs to farmers with substantial savings in southern Illinois and broader but uneven regional relief.
A Burmese folk belief links grave diggers with a curse. The dead supposedly pay their fare across a mystic river and restless spirits of the disturbed rise to haunt the living. The tale attributes the misdeeds of diggers to lack of scruples and Burman imagination fuels the fears.
The term bogus may derive from the French bagasse or borghese fraud exposure, with ties to American refuse of sugar cane and counterfeit money. It also names a rum drink mixed with molasses, reflecting varied 19th century slang.
The Chesapeake bay blue crab, the largest specimen along the Atlantic coast, is cited as the best. Though once plentiful, it is becoming evident these crabs will become rare and high priced like terrapin, while pea crabs in oyster shells and the Pacific coast cancer magister are also noted for use.
A North reports that an Esquimo trapper en route to a trading post sold four of his wives for a pound of tea and some tobacco to fellow trappers returning from Biochette post of the Hudsons Bay Company. The original owner may redeem his wives by paying double the purchase price as per Eskimo custom.
A critical note from the Outlook deplores people who litter openly and harm others by their careless acts. It contrasts litterers with those who neither homeless nor landless yet trespass on others rights, likening them to nomads in a desert.
The naturalist John Burroughs dismissed nature’s grand spectacles except for the Grand Canyon of the Colorado which he called the Divine Abyss. As a youth he studied botany and birds but kept a systematic record of his romantic engagements with women, a facet described by writers on his life as lighthearted and engaging.
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