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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1926
Page
4
A massive incubator in operation hatches half a million eggs at a 21 day cycle. It turns eggs six times daily and opens to fresh air after hatch. The machine is capable of producing over three million chicks per year.
Describes historical campaigning with torchlight parades and loud cheering for candidates and supporters. Notes that long processions and vocal crowds drew votes, a practice viewed as not an advanced political method, while young men were urged to vote the party ticket.
Chicago Motor Club president Charles M. Hayes says the $15,000,000 bond issue will gain approval at the November 2 polls if drivers vent their views. He cites hours-long delays and frequent accidents on narrow county highways. The Board of County Commissioners is praised for expanding hard roads and lowering future maintenance costs.
A fragmentary chat reveals a chaotic scene mixing theft, cooking, and moral musings. Doce Leason notes odd days, while Doce Leason jokes about gender by kissing. Bill teases his dance progress and Gladys boasts of skinning everything including her ankles.
A string of short witticisms and anecdotes addresses silence, perception, biblical trivia, and humor about travel and writing. The quips reflect social pieties, parenting humor, judgement judgments, and seasonal moods in compact epigram form.
A Virginia blacksmith declares a business change with a notice of dissolution between him and Mose Skinner. Debts owed to the firm will be settled with him, and what the firm owes will be settled with Skinner. The odd snippets include domestic chatter and a stormy Atlantic liner scene.
A neighbor disputes my faith while I follow scripture and love him. He denigrates my beliefs as bunk despite my piety and acts of kindness. The speaker recalls a claim of surviving heavy fire as if from an ammunition truck.
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