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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1909
Page
5
A plea to residents to support local schools, churches, and businesses, urging patrons to buy home goods, pay fair wages, and boost town prosperity. Emphasizes gasoline safety and the need for neighbors to stand together, avoid hostility, and foster growth and mutual progress.
Chicago street number overhaul delays mail in Riverdale affecting about 40 houses between State Street and Indiana Avenue on 136th to 138th streets and 137th Place. Hegewisch mirrors Riverdale numbers, causing some mail to be misrouted before delivery.
United States land office hosts free homestead registration for Cheyenne and Standing Rock lands in Pierre South Dakota October 4 through 23. Visitors can view products of homestead lands at the 3rd Annual Gas Belt Exposition with deeded lands valued at 25 to 35 dollars per acre. Entertainment includes a Custer Massacre reenactment by Sioux braves and militia, band concerts, and free attractions, with railway half-fare during exposition week October 4 to 9 and reduced rates at registration. For details, contact Pierre Board of Trade.
A writer warns that sending a tire for a bar to school risks stolen ways, while educating a decent boy steers him straight. The argument suggests training calms impulses and steadies behavior, but hints at dangers of misdirection.
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