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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1916
Page
5
The piece contrasts Chicago's progressive park system and beaches with New York's. It praises Chicago for larger, better planned parks and four bathing beaches with proposals for six more, noting a shift in public attitude toward lakefront recreation and civic spirit.
Morris Epstein of the German American Alliance reports two unarmed Zeppelins with sixty ton capacity built in Germany for mail service between the United States and Berlin. Named Amerika and Deutschland, the craft fly in seventy two hours, rise above planes, can descend to water, and will charge standard international postage plus 25 cents per letter.
The report lists 1 584 merchant ships lost in 25 months of the European war from Aug 1 1914 to Sept 1 1916. Allied totals show Britain Canada Japan Italy Russia Belgium Greece Spain Norway Denmark Sweden and the United States among others with a combined 2 291 854 gross tons. Teutonic losses include Austria Hungary and Turkey for a combined 187 728 gross tons.
11 000 acres of high class agricultural land in Big Horn and Yellow Stone counties Montana available in 640 and 320 acre tracts on the main line of the Chicago Burlington and Quin cy railway asking 10 to 20 dollars per acre interested write to G Peters 10917 Wabash Ave Chicago
Local merchants urged to advertise in the home paper to reach customers. The message stresses the home paper as essential to local businesses and to informing customers about offerings.
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