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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1923
Page
4
Commentary notes that rural folks should focus on action not advice from porch critics. It jokes about Congress in session seeking jobs for constituents, critiques about Coolidge, and playful lines about boys’ throwing accuracy and girls’ facial decorating. It adds quips on jail terms for floggers and looming European peace tied to old trousers.
Families with a single child face unique challenges in guiding personal growth and social adjustment. While such children often show maturity, they may miss peer interaction, prompting consider ation of broadened home life or adoption to provide companionship and balance.
The Acme Steel Goods Company plans a modern cold rolling mill on the Calumet river at Riverdale. It will be the Chicago district’s first to produce cold rolled strip in a full range of sizes finishes edges and tempers with a capacity of 56 mills and 50000 tons annually. Production is expected by November 1 1922.
Dante Harris Ley entered Thornton Township High School in Harvey at the start of the school year, likely the youngest high school student in Illinois at age eleven. Earlier, at nine, he scored the top mark on a mental test given by the Indiana State Normal at Terre Haute among over five thousand tested.
Frank N. Stobbs of Los Angeles died at Blue Island hospital on September 10 after a period of ill health. He had hoped a visit to his Harvey brothers would help. Survived by father M. Stobbs of Los Angeles, three sisters Ellen Taylor in Washington DC Etta Best in Los Angeles Emma Cone in Los Angeles, and three brothers Matthew Thomas C. Stobbs of Harvey and William H. Stobbs of Los Angeles.
The Geological Survey lists standard tests for diamond genuineness: specific gravity, hardness, and refractive index. For extra proof the stone is burned in hydrogen. ordinary fire in air does not affect a diamond. Diamonds are the hardest substance known.
A quirky historical note quotes Duluth Lersald about fame and history. It contrasts righteousness with notoriety and mentions a world famous thing as the ointment. The remark hints at fame shaped by scandal rather than virtue.
Mrs V A S notes a remark by her colored maid after morning service stating the preacher "preached from Generous to Resulations," reflecting a racial caricature. The Boston Evening Transcript records the exchange as a pointed quip about sermon length and style.
The piece describes Norwegian and Persian customs involving a cock in a boat to locate drowned bodies and presage death or fortune. In Norway rowers search for a corpse and expect the crow at the snout, while in Persia a cock signals events by the feel of a sleeping louse's feet—cold foretelling death, warmth promising luck.
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