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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1919
Page
6
Central Division launches a ten day drive from November 2 to 11 to recruit 250 000 volunteers to secure annual one dollar memberships. Chapters will operate as recruiting offices with badges for workers as the third roll call aims to broaden enrollment nationwide to support Red Cross activities.
The Ladies Aid and Dalton Methodist church welcomed Rev Albritten and his wife with a Thursday evening reception featuring lunch and a musical program. Bethel church Irving Park members surprised the couple with gifts including a rhimestone pin for Mrs Albritten and a gold open face Waltham watch for the pastor.
The Morgan Colts lost the championship Sunday October 19 1919 8 to ? Calumet All Stars led by George Koehle Eleven strike cuts for Koehle and key hits by Unruh Kollwitz Nerche and others highlighted Calumet drive. Morgan lineup included Reich Trappe Morgan Raich and others with Traisman pitching.
A schoolboy in St Louis writes a humorous, faulty geography of geese noting their heavy bodies, odd head and tail positions, and misaligned legs. He humorously distinguishes ganders from geese, jokes about milk and cries for liberty, ending with a playful, erroneous line about life and death.
A reflective passage extols a compact library as a distilled gathering of wisdom. It suggests a curated assembly of minds from diverse civil lands, arranged to reveal thoughts once hidden behind etiquette and secrecy to future readers across ages.
A pithy reflection contrasts aspiration with possession, noting that desire focuses on one side of an issue while ownership embraces many angles. The compact aphorism invites contemplation on perspective and value.
The first practical overhead trolley line was built in 1884 in Kansas City using double overhead conductors and a wheel riding on top. In 1885 Baltimore added a third line, the Van de Poele system began in Toronto, and in 1886 Scranton introduced it. Earlier experimental systems existed in Chicago New York and Boston.
A minister recalled walking in Columbus with one hat on his head and another in his hind, puzzled by the second hat. We reassured him we often felt the same. The piece urges doing a kind act every day or so to comfort the heart.
In August 1812 Detroit fell to British forces under General Brock after General Hull surrendered the city to the British. Hull was court martialed by Americans, found guilty of cowardice, and condemned to be shot but President Madison commuted the sentence to dishonorable discharge, and Hull was freed.
The article asserts that wrestling's value is universally recognized in Japan. It claims the sport unifies power agility and internal health by promoting vitality and balanced development of the lower body muscles.
A reflective note contrasts ease in borrowing trouble with the harder path to borrowing happiness, suggestingtemptation meets challenges differently. The piece frames hope against worry and hints at personal choice in pursuing joy.
The article explains raisin making from leading grape varieties Muscatel Gorco Blanco Muscat of Alexandria and Malaga. Bunches are cut from vines placed on trays to sundry and turned periodically. Large growers use curing sheds to guard against rain while drying. Seeding is done by machinery.
A tourist asks about the hill and the driver recounts a queer tale of an Indy youth and a gentleman who climbed higher and higher and vanished. It is supposed they descended on the far side, leaving the outcome a mystery.
A passage from Everybody's Magazine recalls a familiar farmer woman in quirky clothes wandering the arena after the show starts. She calls for Albert and clashes with a policeman, her wig and petticoats slipping as she is led away.
The Congo is described as the most wonderful waterway, twice the Mississippi system in navigable extent and three times in population. Professor Dupont, former director of Brussels Museum of Natural History, says its fertile valleys could become the world’s granary.
A persuasive call urges young men to join the Navy, arguing the best travel time is youth. It promises world travel, hard work, learning, a 30 day vacation, and two years service leading to lifelong fitness and success, with locating recruiting stations via the post office.
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