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Newspaper
Cicero Vindicator
Location
Cicero, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1885
Page
3
A reader’s room by room listing shows district assemblies like Bohemian lodges and various ward clubs meeting on Sundays and weeknights across the Fifth Ward. Reports describe a fatal potential injury from a shipyard accident and a knife fight at a Polish dance, plus local real estate, business closures, and civic notes.
Gordon Bradfield suspects murder in Esther's death as Flint Romroyd probes truth among Forest Dale's inhabitants. Amabel Linmore's involvement surfaces when a hidden bloodstained dagger is found, prompting Romroyd to confront Bradfield about delaying marriage and to seek arrest options while Amabel's fate hangs in balance.
Three assailants attacked Tim owners on duty with revolvers but were subdued and arrested. Credit to Otheer Egan and Hart Sweeney for aiding street car men against thieves. Mr Connors earns goodwill from the Car Company for support amid trouble. A young lady nearby recently fell ill with a rare disease needing expert surgical care.
The passage cites Mme de Stael on trading knowledge for personal charm and notes that many would trade knowledge for beauty, suggesting a better bargain than Stael. It adds a remark from Conscience described as a sleeping giant and a warning that careless words lead to harsh consequences, attributed to Cari Pretee in Weekly.
The term blue blood comes from savgre azul and refers to white skin showing blue veins, signaling pure European lineage. In Spain and Spanish America, descendants of Gothic conquerors retained pale skin and blue eyes, while admixtures with African or Moorish blood soften the blue veins, reflecting social status and racial mixing among ruling classes and urban elites in Mexican cities and haciendas.
In a Philadelphia Call snippet, Dusenberry jokes about his three marriages. Bromley notes the lessons from each wife. He says the first ended romance, the second taught humility, and the present wife made him a philosopher, able to bear others’ troubles with self-complacency.
Brown asks Fogg his opinion of Miss Liliwhite after a waltz. Fogg admits she talks well but adds in private she is a bit sour, brushing his whitened coat-sleeve as he speaks.
A humorous exchange about sermons and singing rests contrasts with a magazine note asserting there is no absolute silence. The dialogue touches on purpose of preaching and the idea that marital noise is inevitable.
A New York Evening Post excerpt surveys the grasshopper from Caylus to modern notes, detailing its morphology, differences from locusts, musical abilities of males, and varied species. It highlights many grasshopper types, habitats, behaviors, and a playful note on Rhode Island turkeys, ending with a moral on improvidence.
An Atlanta Constitution blames education and freedom for rising lunacy among black people, noting slaves rarely went insane while freedom brings more mental illness. It cites more frequent lunacy trials and ties them to expanded reasoning and self-rule, then mentions an English yacht captain who discharged his crew for not praying.
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