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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1917
Page
5
The Pointer urges South Enders to back a bond issue for a Cook County hospital branch at 95th and State Streets. Voters will decide November 6. The piece appeals to all parties to support easier emergency care and shorter travel to a local hospital.
Ships over 2500 tons deadweight and passenger vessels over 2500 tons gross of American registry are requisitioned by the U.S. government at noon on Monday October 15, forming a national merchant marine for the war. Aiming to include 1500 to 2500 ton ships later, the total tonnage exceeds 2,000,000. Shipowners largely approve the move.
The Church of St Basil on Kremlin Hill Moscow is noted as a building designed with deliberate avoidance of symmetry in its form and overall exterior appearance.
The entry presents a pithy maxims note attributing a Spenser quotation on noble minds and contentment. It functions as a reflective epigraph rather than a news item or event, preserving the literary sentiment in a concise card form.
The new rates take effect for all first class mail at three cents per ounce or fraction. Drop letters must pay two cents per ounce or fraction, and prepaid postal cards require two cents. Private mailing cards with written messages must have two cents prepaid. Christmas parcels to service members in France go through main offices only and are inspected as required.
An anxious note urges readers to share Riverdale news items by phone. It lists possible notices such as deaths elopements marriages embezzlement departures illnesses and social events, encouraging townsfolk to report happenings to Riverdale.
The notice, posted in Lille in April 1916, orders all inhabitants except mothers with young children and the elderly to prepare for transport within ninety minutes. An Etappen-Kommandantur officer will decide who is taken to concentration camps and appeals are futile. Citizens are urged to stock eating and drinking utensils, woolen blankets, shoes, and linen, or face punishment. The piece contrasts Kaiser rule with contemporary American wartime leadership under Hoover.
A historical note describes Hindu snake charmers who detect reptiles in homes and summon them openly. They perform ritual cues and commands while spectators watch, leading some to suspect hidden physical methods behind their claimed abilities.
The passage urges maintaining good humor to avoid minor woes souring the temper. It credits Benjamin Franklin with using a ready smile to aid the country in Congress, contrasting with Adams and Jefferson, and emphasizing humor to soften contentious minds.
Village Attorney and colleagues from Riverdale and Dolton support a $1,000,000 bond issue to pave fifty miles of county highways. The plan includes the United States post road between Chicago and Milwaukee, nine miles of the Lincoln Highway, Archer Avenue, Desplaines River roads, and Homewood Lansing paving, linking Indiana roads. Mayors endorse the measure, citing all-year travel, farm access to Chicago markets, and a coordinated system that benefits residents and industries across Cook County.
The document calls attention to women voters in the county noting they may vote on the bond issue. It emphasizes the responsibility of women voters to participate in the upcoming decision.
A writer cites BlCuL methods from American magazine urging rapid visual memory drills. He suggests scanning a store window, recalling items, and visualizing streetcar passengers by glancing at ads. Practice improves ability to remember faces and names after brief exposures.
A humorous exchange from an unnamed Detroit Free Press item reveals a couple who kept their engagement secret by addressing each other with formal titles. They maintained the illusion during their honeymoon by calling each other Mr Black and Miss Kinkly.
A terse critique urges skipping complaints about hard work and focusing on completing the job, noting that time spent lamenting can render efforts useless and push the task toward irrelevance.
Explains the phrase lodge in a garden of cucumbers from Isaiah 1 8 as a rude temporary shelter in open ground where a boy or man is posted to ward off robbers or foxes and protect the vines and jackets.
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