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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1916
Page
3
A feature on schoolgirl fashion from Paris designers and American dressmakers. It praises tiny frocks for kindergartners, details fabrics like velvet and taffeta, and discusses costuming for older girls and boarding school students with an emphasis on practicality and economy.
The forty eighth annual Illinois Equal Suffrage Association meeting runs October 18 to 21 in Springfield to press full suffrage for women. Mrs Harrison Munro Brown seeks re election. a special Chicago to Springfield train leaves October 15.
Brownsville Texas First Cavalry machine gun troop marches to Harlingen for two weeks of Lewis gun training and range work. Four sergeants promoted to second lieutenant with gold cord. commissions signed by Governor Bunn. Names: Walter Neibuhr Walter Rees John Rhoades Thomas Cochrane Leroy T Boylan.
The Illinois state utility commission adopted a conference ruling to equitably distribute freight cars for grain shipments. A hearing preceded the ruling and rail lines must compile four years of station and elevator data by December 1 to show business levels. cars will be allocated pro rata to relieve statewide shortages.
Springfield reports Governor Dunne granted Histon Scott another reprieve to delay his hanging at Murphysboro. The reprieve extends the sentence from October 18 to December 16 as Sheriff White withholds the number of spectators allowed to witness the execution. The first reprieve followed a public spectacle by the sheriff regarding another execution.
The federal farm loan board led by Secretary McAdoo heard Springfield plea for a new farm loan bank. Central and eastern Illinois farmers testified before the board and were hosted at luncheon by the Springfield Commercial Association.
Dixon Lorade Taft of Chicago has been asked to design a marker for the block house site used during the Black Trank war where Abraham Lincoln Zachary Taylor and Jefferson Davis often conferred. The Daughters of the American Revolution will provide the marker.
Trustees announce full payment of claims against the personal estates of J. B. Fuller and his sisters Margaret and Bessie. Total claims run about $10,000 with an additional 10 percent dividend to Fuller bank creditors to be paid before January 1.
Mount Carroll Fire swept the barns and granaries on the farm of William Sprecher destroying them and all contents including 125 tons of new hay 100 tons of rye straw 1000 bushels of oats vehicles and farm machinery with total loss about 72000 dollars.
Oliver J. Marshall, a wealthy retired farmer from near Gibson City, was killed when his car was struck by an Illinois Central train while crossing the tracks returning home from a funeral where he had served in the church choir.
County highway head Boyer reports Iron Knox requests on organizing the county to vote highway bonds. Knox brings active good roads effort to 39 Illinois counties. Vermilion leads in road bond votes as others follow.
Mrs Ralph Dunbar of Monmouth suffered hiccups since May after a small growth near the appendix was removed. After an initial relief the hiccuping returned June 7 at about 50 per minute, but she now enjoys complete rest following the procedure.
Freeport report states 51 percent of people crossing a rail line fail to look both ways before stopping or driving onto the tracks in one day. Eighty four percent look in one direction, while the rest follow the rule stop look listen to proceed.
Mrs. John Metzger learned that her entire family was killed in the war except for one seriously wounded brother. Five brothers serving in the German army were killed, and her aged parents and another brother, refugees when Russians advanced, were also slain.
Springfield reports the state public utilities commission sent a telegram to the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington demanding the release of freight cars held by eastern roads. This marks the first step in a campaign to relieve a severe car shortage in the state.
The First National bank plans closing its national charter to pursue an Illinois state bank charter. It abandons national status, citing the high cost of complying with federal reserve banking law in a move rare among U S banks.
Peoria reports bank clearings for the first eight months of 1916 at $126,714,624. An $25,691,468 rise is linked to payments for orders for war alcohol. Distillers shipped large quantities of denatured alcohol for powder production.
Philadelphia Inquirer argues jealousy does not require love and that trust can prevent jealousy. The piece notes jealousy can arise from pride or fear, and that love and jealousy are distinct, with jealous schemes often failing and harming the jealous person.
Grace Gassette of Chicago, famed painter praised by Paris Salon standards, earned General Joffre’s attention for abandoning painting to invent splints and bandages for wounded soldiers. French surgeons requested her to author a textbook on splinting after her front-line work.
The passage argues poetry records the best moments of minds and elevates thought beyond expression. It notes evanescent thoughts linked to place or person, arising unexpectedly and departing, yet yielding pleasure as they intersect with the mind and its object.
A witty exchange defines a statesman as a politician who has money because of politics, and a politician as someone who enters politics to gain money. The Boston Transcript features the quip on political ethics.
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