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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1909
Page
8
Notice to sewer contractors invites bids to lay 3000 feet of sewer pipe with man holes and catch basins. Village furnishes all materials. Plans and specs available at the village clerk or Justice Baumgartner office. Bids due by Tuesday October 26 at 7 30 PM. Board may reject any or all bids.
A superintendent visiting classrooms asked pupils to recite lessons and then quizzed one class on physiology. When asked to define a skeleton a pupil answered that a skeleton is a man with his insides out and his outsides off, ending the questioning.
In a travel anecdote from Jerome K. Jerome's Diary of a Pilgrim age the author describes German railway guards craving to see passengers tickets. The couple humor the guards by showing or buying tickets to cheer them, with extra tickets provided for especially somber officials.
A Review of Reviews summary notes Hindu women gaining equality with men. Widows of high castes now allowed to remarry and pursue roles such as nurses doctors teachers and missionaries. Efforts establish homes for widows and promote education public participation and self support, ending polygamy and elevating East Indian society.
A six month old Scottish collie defies table rules and eats a bone after watching the daughter leave the room. The dog signals the lapse and then quietly commits the act, showing apparent planning and restraint from the master.
A flagman on the Harvey line was robbed of nine dollars and his watch when two masked men halted No. 21 at 9:20 PM last Wednesday. One suspect was arrested after hours of searching. a second man remains sought as authorities issued descriptions to Chicago police. The Galveston bound train carried nine Pullman sleepers.
The Detroit Free Press describes a live goose and duck market on a vacant Hastings Street corner near the Polish settlement. East siders sell poultry by the neck with a wire hook while buyers inspect feathers and plumpness before purchase, often bargaining as they select and carry their birds home.
Mrs. Hamer-Jackson of London promotes illuminating as a home based, profitable craft for women. She notes extensive demand for decorations on public addresses books and cards, with floral scrolls and gold or silver touches in Anglo-Saxon Gothic styles. She plans to organize a school to train young women in the craft.
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