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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1921
Page
4
A satirical collection lampoons fad campaigns and social trends. It mocks prohibition era gimmicks like “More Bread” and “Call of the Wild,” notes accidental gum chewing by children, car crashes from speed, student mischief, and ex‑Kaiser Bill’s loneliness among 15 million victims.
At a convention of employers a speaker claimed employee efficiency rose eight hundred percent after all clocks were removed from the plant. He argued many workers fixate on the clock rather than on their tasks.
A Savannah Tribune excerpt questions why a supposed business man relies on ads for every waking routine yet rejects advertising for his home paper. The piece highlights cognitive dissonance between daily ad consumption and belief that advertising does not pay.
CG E Durst head of Illinois Agricultural Association fruit department is the sole Illinois member named to a 21 member American Farm Bureau committee to study national fruit marketing. The group stems from a Chicago conference on April 5 with Durst active in cooperative marketing efforts in Southern Illinois. Illinois ranks high in fruit production with Southern Illinois first in early apples and Marion County leading pear production. National plans for dairy livestock and grain marketing are progressing alongside fruit efforts.
The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign starts winter term with registration on Monday and Tuesday and classes begin Wednesday. The campus grows from 50 students in 1868 to an annual enrollment near 5000 at Urbana and Champaign and more than 10 000 overall with professional school and summer session totals. About 1200 professional and clerical staff will be employed along with 200 additional workers.
The United States Patent Office approved a trade mark for the Hawyeye farm name of Ledru Willits a breeder of hogs cattle and sheep. The mark protects usage in interstate commerce and may be the first farm name trade mark issued to a farmer. Government registration extends beyond state lines.
A cartoon caption shows a man asking a boy to hold a bull as he drives cattle. The boy refuses, saying he does not want to be a director in the company and certainly does not want to be a stockholder.
Cashier Horace Holmes attests the bank’s financials with figures for capital stock, surplus, undivided profits, deposits, and liabilities. Notary Esther Rieger verifies the swearing of the statement dated September 4, 1921, with directors listed andcertifications of correct accounting.
Chicago plans convert Lake Calumet into an inland industrial harbor with a deep channel and a dozen slips. A new land area will be created by filling the rest of the lake, financed at under 3.5 million dollars. The project aims to make Chicago a central shipping hub between Europe and the Midwest via the St. Lawrence canals.
Farm Bureau Day at the Cook County Fair in Palatine Illinois on September 16 runs as Farm Bureau Day Track Growers Day and School Day. A parade from the Blue Island Farm Office will proceed to the fair grounds likely led by Thornton Township High School Band. Farm Bureau members are invited and urged to bring friends for the event.
London Tit-Bits notes that current US and British laws still penalize public kissing. A Yale student and his sweetheart were jailed for kissing in a Boston restaurant under blue laws from colonial Massachusetts. Historical context cites 1489 English Parliament acts during pestilence banning kissing.
The piece describes Burmese courtship as open where a young man signals interest at pigoda feasts. With family consent he escorts the chosen woman from a meal, ending his bachelor status as he begins a public courtship.
Creaning baskets cleaned best with a stiff brush. Unwaxed baskets may be scrubbed with soapy water, rinsed and dried.
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