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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1923
Page
2
Washington reports show coal production losses and a move toward government control amid prohibition talks. President Coolidge schedules a governors conference in October while treasury officials defend prosperity and cautions on scare headlines.
Maxwell Marston of Philadelphia captures the Amateur Golf Championship of America after a grueling 38th hole victory in Chicago. He defeats defending champion Jesse Serough.
Dispatches report Gen Gaztano Gilardino, governor, ordered 4,000 unemployed from Fiume to cut government relief costs. Other items note Greece cedes Imbros and Tenedos to Turkey, Bulgaria foils a Communist plot, and Spain, Japan currency and debt issues.
Illinois' first newspaper history noted. Rock Island grand jury calls for sharper probes into vice. Pittsfield waterworks contracts awarded to East St. Louis firm. Sterling factory fire losses about 25000. Quincey hosts Fiftieth Illinois veterans in October. Quincy banker William Bellendorff dies by suicide amid loss delusion. Moline Plow sells Bloomington building for over 100000. Macomb goat farming expands to a dairy venture. Stop Lock and Listen club forms in Springfield. Lombard college fights abolished by freshmen and sophomores. Cook County real estate values rise by 500 million. Harvey Miller dies at Dixon on derrick accident. Hotel Lawrence owner James Riley dies in Danville. Burlington orchestra members injured in Dixon auto wreck. Chicago’s Negro population growth noted from 1910 to 1923 with estimates reaching up to 150000 and possibly 200000 later years.
Rev. David Sneed of Franklin County near Mount Vernon has 22 children, 16 surviving with three sets of twins. Ife has two marriages at about seventy six, still active in preaching. Ezekiel Sneed, his father, fathered 22 children, and Rector Sneed, his son, has ten.
State department figures show salaries rose in 389 Illinois counties and fell in 88. Men received raises in 33 counties, while women saw increases in 82 counties. 40 counties cut men's pay and 39 cut women's.
A Peoria high way union terrorized motorists abducting Ed ward Buckus and choking his wife while fleeing with 75 dollars and a car later abandoned. John Ivicksmeier, 66, died of heart disease near his Nashville barn while hitching to work. A fall from a silo killed Rudolph Streeck, 35, at Winslow with injuries and widow and three children. Camp Grant bans hunting after a civilian worker was wounded. hunter rounded up. Mr and Mrs Arthur Stearns found an infant in a shawl and bag near Freeport and took it to a hospital. Robert L Thompson begins his 51st year at the Chicuzo post office with a ceremony. Illinois fingerprint experts expected at Champaign two-day convention at the Elks club mid October. Mona Lee Dawson, 13 months, leads state fair better babies contest with 99.5 score among 203 examined Tuesday.
Bids opened by the state waterways division at Springfield reveal the Lockport lock in Illinois can be built for 1 159 076 50 dollars The project carries the distinction of the largest lift for a lock of its size and is announced by superintendent William J Sackett
Attorney General Brundage interprets the state law taxing bus lines as applying to highways built by counties. More than 200 foreign students will join the University of Illinois Urbana campus this year, including Rajinder Singh Datta son of the Baluchistan governor who will study electrical engineering. Despite federal prohibition efforts and Chicago police pressure the beer supply remains robust with breweries producing about 18 000 barrels weekly during Dever’s crackdown.
Two young masked robbers locked the cashier and assistant cashier in the vault at 9 30 in the morning and secured 82500 in cash and 9000 Liberty bonds. They escaped in a car after the heist at the State bank of Cameron near Galesburg.
The $2,000,000 Tli nois Centennial Memorial in Springfield is set for dedication on October 5. October 5 marks five years since the cornerstone was laid. Illinois fire losses in August totaled 167 fires and 24 508 in uninsured damage, with total state losses of 1 408 487, all on buildings lacking lightning protection per State Fire Marshal Joss Gambier.
Lush crowds of twelve thousand watched Charles Hageman of Wheatland win the horse drawn plowing championship at the Stewart Parsons farm north of Plainfield. Abner Thomas of Big Rock captured the tractor sweepstakes as warmers praised the perfect furrows and skill on display.
The article notes England’s pre-Victorian quills giving way to steel and fountain pens as monarchs from George VI to Princess Mary adopt modern writing tools. Italian, Belgian, Spanish and Romanian rulers also favor fountain pens with reservoirs. Autographs invite comparison with earlier quill craftsmanship.
In parts of the nation weddings remain common while divorces also occur, reflecting ongoing social patterns and personal choices within American communities.
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