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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1938
Page
4
The National Safety Council notes 3670 automobile deaths prevented in the first half of 1938 versus 1937, crediting reduced fatalities to sustained community and state safety work, better enforcement, and improved traffic engineering. It urges motorists and officials to persist through upcoming hazardous seasons.
The piece discusses human tendency to delay tasks until deadlines such as registration, tax returns, or bill payments. It notes crowds appear at last moments, risking missed votes or payments, and argues foresight saves time and maximizes productivity. Time is presented as capital requiring prudent use.
Businessmen say walking is the best exercise and a sane way to jog memory by visiting the office to settle old accounts. The remark notes that dancing might attract the insane, but walking remains preferred for daily health and productivity.
The American Legion in Maryland and the District of Columbia propose a National Laboratory of Traffic Safety on the Baltimore Washington Highway. The goal is a measurable safety standard or yardstick to guide lighting and highway design, creating a national precedent for safer roads.
The author notes that travel increases connections as each person knows many others. With 1000 acquaintances per person, mutual ties spread widely, linking distant regions. Strong networks reduce isolation and lessen the risk of national fracture during war.
The piece notes shorter days drive people indoors for quiet reading and home amusements while streets stay lit. It argues evenings under the lamp are the most profitable hours as folks read papers and books and learn to meet daily demands.
A humorist newsman relays a father’s quip that his son could not live by necking and hopes to forget. The piece satirizes college romance with exodus weekends and professors warning cupid may cripple study, noting love can dull exam marks.
A collection of short quips and exchanges on business, ambition, daily life, and social mores. Jokes touch on fortune, work, manners, shopping, education, and gender while cartooning urban life with wry understatement. Notable lines include a self made man recalling a single dollar and a butcher's bone quip.
A farmer rushes to tell a neighbor his wife suddenly went in sane, asking where she could have caught the insanity germ. Jokes touch on domestic science versus science, a child’s odd phrases, and a pharmacist misnaming aspirin as monacetic adideider of salicylic acid, all in village humor.
A famous mathematician, answering audience questions after a lecture, notes a puzzle from adverts. He asks how 85 percent of dentists recommend one toothpaste, 92 percent another, and 95 percent a third, highlighting conflicting endorsement figures.
The Lions clubs push to furnish white canes to all blind Americans leads Peoria to enact a city ordinance restricting white cane use to blind pedestrians and granting them right of way at crossings.
Twenty years ago in September 1918 voters faced a crowded field of tickets and The Pointer backs candidates A M Lambert county commissioner, Frederick P De Young probate judge, William F Propper state representative 7th district, Alfred Vansteenberger Republican representative 7th district, Frank Green Democratic representative 7th district. Also notes nurse Cora Veldman heads to France and local updates on air traffic Red Cross nurse arrival and regional school openings.
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