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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1920
Page
8
In the Arizona mountains Kate Cullison defeats captivity with Curly Flandran's help as Blackwell pursues through rugged ravines. After a perilous escape the missing hunter Cass Fendrick shoots the convict and Luck Cullison ends the feud with Cass, uniting family and friends.
In Arizona, Curly is acquitted of rustling amid public favor for his defense aided by Alec Flandrau Billy Mackenzie Luck Cullison and a supportive wife. The courtroom cheers honor the brave wife and underline a frontier justice tale where love anchors a hopeful future.
A government canal project lowered Lake Washington by 12 feet exposing a prehistoric subaquatic forest. The United States coast and geodetic survey found vertical, semipetrified trunks up to 121 feet long with 20 foot root spreads. About a hundred trunks were recovered near Manitou Point off Mercer Island as engineers spent three years six months clearing the lake for safe navigation.
A vacation mishap ends with a man riding back from the lake in a speed boat. He brags for a crowd but learns the pilot is a renowned political figure with a summer estate nearby, causing public astonishment. He offers 40 cents for the ride, while the hotel crowd watches the unlikely voyage.
In Ross Herefordshire two young elms grow at the wall base of the parish church transept, tied to the grave of the eighteenth century Man of Ross. Local tale says they sprout from his grave, though root shoots through a masonry gap are more likely. The trees thrived until recent renovations left them leafless, with one reportedly reviving.
Hamiet proclaims the play is the thing then notes cinema has not been invented so the king cannot abandon his show for a movie. The remark blends theatrical pride with a wink at cinema competition.
A Boston banker reports to the Wall Street Journal that Canada is recovering strongly from wartime struggles and entering a period of activity and wealth. He cites the rich yields of the western wheat fields, potential exports of up to 200 million bushels, and rising cattle and dairy industries supported by governments as key drivers of prosperity across Western Canada.
Naples remains one of Europe’s cities with unusually low rents. In Gotham a joke ties Vesuvius’s heat to rents, teasing that high rents did not drive the volcanic mood.
An advertisement promotes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a pure non stimulant herbal medicine for kidney liver and bladder troubles. It claims strict purity standards with a sworn statement on every bottle and offers two bottle sizes. A sample bottle can be requested by sending ten cents to Dr Kilmer Co. Binghamton NY.
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