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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1924
Page
2
A collection of quips poems and spoof political ads appears in a lighthearted collage. It blends romance banter aging humor and a tabloid style political jab featuring a La Follette ad. The text plays on wishful thinking and couples quarrels alongside playful crowd commentary.
A curio from the Smart Set features playful lines about a child asking if father sleeps and a joke about bulbs in house cleaning. It includes a garden-bee anecdote where a man reflects on a bee’s beauty before being stung, and a quip about a woman who boasts she won’t marry the best man.
An elderly woman peers at a wounded soldier who protests his head bandage has slipped and reveals the actual injury to his foot. The scene notes his faint voice and the cotton wrapped head.
O T Bright argues for measurable learning goals and expert-designed tests to improve instruction. He cites over two hundred standard tests in core subjects and describes crafting concise, quickly checked questions to boost reading and comprehension while reducing marking time.
The report notes Creno Miller of Sterling hospital not expected to live after a bull trampling at the Arthur Giftrow farm. Illinois mail voting rise cited at Springfield secretary of state office, attributed to growing understanding of the law. Stuart Brown, 65, Springfield attorney and former Illinois State Bar Association figure, dies. Leeds: Lewis Reese, Chicago telescope maker, 84, survived by wife Lillian. Sixty thousand sport fish distributed along Tennepin canal near Colona by Illinois fish commission from backwaters along the Mississippi. J C Irving of Metamora owns a pistol once used by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales in 1860 hunting trip. Appellate court in Springfield affirms $4,000 judgment for Peres Lawson of Mattoon against Dr Sherman E K Bigler of Neoga for failure to set a broken limb.
About 1 400 teachers enroll for the teachers institute at Eastern State Normal School at Charleston. The broomcorn harvest yields roughly 9 600 tons at 1 75 to 2 42 per bushel. Golf course expansion at Freeport Country Club moves from nine to eighteen holes. A sale of 1 842 registered Hereford cattle near Kansas station grossed 60 258 75 with buyers from several states. Mrs Saran Orr of Chicago dies in a French hospital at 66.
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