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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1907
Page
3
In a Chicago streetcar scene a grandmother suffers neglect from Martin Pringle and his wife as Rosie longs for a grander life. Martin dreams of judgment by Christ and awakens to rescue his mother, reversing the mistreatment and keeping the family together until the grandmother’s death.
The report describes Dakota surgeons claiming they operated on a man's leg and removed a chisel nails screw wood and tin pieces. It notes a past statement about removing two large watermelons from a germiform appendix in another operation.
A new machine has been perfected and patented to produce corks from waste paper and paper pulp. It makes corks from all waste paper types, yielding corks superior to ordinary ones as they resist acids and oils. Chemists and major cork users report they are far better in every respect.
Laymen and missions in civilized lands must apply the same zeal and organization they use in secular business. If professionals adopt this enterprise with energy and enthusiasm, the mission cause would receive a powerful impulse likely to revolutionize its work from every angle, North China Herald notes.
London report notes actress Mrs. Madge Sendall praised golf as a virtue for mothers praising a cup win while admitting she knew little about golf. She said the game is highly commended by excellent mothers whose daughters come home so tired they go straight to bed.
In Clinton Circuit Court Judge W G Cochran awarded Mrs Isabela Robinson Warner widow of Dr John Warner dower and homestead rights in an estate valued at 1 6 million. The decision, if upheld by the Supreme Court, would grant the widow the traditional Warner homestead in Clinton valued at 250 000 with a 10 000 annual income. The judge rejected claims by Ves pasian Warner that the widow and her children were of mixed blood as hearsay.
A major fire in Hardin, county seat of Calhoun county, wiped out several valuable business buildings, most wood framed, with losses estimated over $50,000 before reaching the fireproof bank building.
Modern Woodmen in Rock Island conducts employee physicals by the medical department under C W Hawes. About 1,500,000 letters and death proofs in the building come from across the United States, with no way to fumigate all. The exam is authorized to save expense.
Dr H Douglas Singer has been named director of the State Psychopathic Institute to be established in Kankakee He is an English born neurologist trained in England who came to the United States in 1904 He previously served in Creighton Universitys medical department and has taught psychiatry at the University of Nebraska He will assume charge on September 15.
John Oster, 60, allegedly inflicted fatal knife wounds on his son John Oster Jr., 28, during a quarrel with the mother of the latter. The son reportedly defended his mother, and the incident occurred in Mascoutah.
Canton Knights of Pythias announce a corn carnival to be held the last week in September under the edge auspices. Local organizers finalize plans and promote community participation in the event.
A Clover Leaf passenger train derailed near Bowman twelve miles north of Charleston, two cars jumped a switch and struck a freight car. P. E. Conkling of Texarkana Texas was killed instantly. Injured include Shirdon Ross Kentland Indiana head cut and internal injuries C Provine New Douglas Illinois head badly bruised Nelson Anderson Ashmore Illinois head injury leg broken J N Green Dana Indiana ribs broken James Green Dana Indiana leg and head injuries Charles Whipman Toledo Ohio head seriously cut Harley Ferguson Ashmore Illinois chest crushed.
Miss Flossie Bennett of Kankakee county awoke from a three day sleep in a white coffin then slept again for a night waking, then slept four more days. Doctors call it a hysteria like condition with severe head pains and hope the attack ends soon. The case unsettles family and local physicians.
A deputy United States marshal captured Bert Schultz after a lengthy pistol duel along the main street of Bement. Schultz is charged with robbing the Homer post office, with stamps valued at several hundred dollars stolen. He was turned over to county jail for safekeeping and will be held to the federal grand jury after confession.
The drainage canal retaining wall at Lockport protecting the extension to the power house was blown out with 300 pounds of dynamite. Present were R R McCormick president George M Wisner chief engineer Wallace G Clark and Hoyt King.
Fireman Fred Whitcamp saved Maddie Pink an 11 year old boy from a flooded basement at the Cairo and Thebes freight depot. The boy had jumped in to save his spaniel dog. Several men held him by his feet to aid the rescue.
Decatur police report a turbulent Sunday with twelve arrests for drunkenness as the lid was lifted on weekend disorder.
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