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Newspaper
Oak Park Reporter Argus
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1906
Page
1
The Unity Church ladies host a band party at residence of Draa il G Prenebsos North Buch avenue tonight for pew church fun. Company C Sixth Infantry will perform a drill exhibition as a major feature. A supper and refreshments will be served. Proceeds aim for about 200 dollars.
A flurry of June nuptials fills Grace Church and River Forest venues. Brides include Hannah Dunlop and May Yalding with Wood and Yalding families hosting receptions. Grooms named Barrett Andrews, Leslie Dean Wood, and others join in ceremony as ministers, organists, and choirs perform.
Oak Park residents are spared team tracks after the village transportation committee rejects Northwestern's request. The panel also denies parkway usage from Marion street to Park place and adjacent streets for depot work. Trustee Wilson confirms the decision. Get a telephone and stay cool indoors as heat rises. Chicago Telephone Company.
The Union of First Baptist First Congregational First Methodist and First Presbyterian will hold Sunday evening services all summer at Seaview starting at 7 30. Preachers include Dr M R B Williams Dr W Js Barton Dr GN Luccock Dr Frank Smith Rev Denman and others with special addresses by Dr Hopkins and Miss Alice Osann The Epworth League and Junior Union also hold activities Final evening service will be omitted for the summer after tomorrow.
The Warrington last night hosted a successful Suburban Club minstrel show. The Village Board passed an ordinance to improve Randolph street at an estimated cost of 38 890 dollars with plans to be released later. Additional notes report Colburn selling his Oak Park and Chicago express business to invest in a Michigan fruit farm, a physician dying on the scaffold at Friday forenoon, and social visits and travel by local residents including Bliss family members and individuals in Atlantic City and Seattle.
The wedding of Miss Catharine Mastin daughter of Mr and Mrs Geo C Mastin Oak Park and Dr Frank de Miller of London Mills HL is set for Saturday at 4 PM. Rev William E Barton will perform the ceremony at the bride's home 444 N Kenilworth Ave with about one hundred guests. The bride wears white silk mall gown in princess style and pink and white color scheme includes a shower bouquet of white sweet peas. Mendelssohn Trio will provide music and contralto Sibyl Sammis will sing Dudley Buck’s Susie. The couple will reside in London Mills TL after the wedding.
Miss Annie Belle Skillin of Oak Park will wed Mr John Beye of Kansas City Missouri in a Maple wedding ceremony. The couple plans a simple altar service followed by family reception in Oak Park.
The Rev. Edward A. Horton tells a banquet story about a woman in Fancull hall who asks the price of aged fowl and is told they are sold for profits. Massachusetts notes 622 miles of state highways built in twelve years costing about 5.16 million dollars, 90 percent macadam and 10 percent gravel. Village Clerk J I Tristram leaves for White Lake Michigan for a week vacation. Ron H W Austin goes to Williamstown Massachusetts for Williams College graduation exercises, also for a week.
Epworth League and Christian Endeavor with BOY P U societies schedule a sunrise prayer meeting at 6 30 on July 4 at First M E Church corner Lake Street and Forest Avenue Oak Park.
A historical note explains pineapple juice contains an enzyme aiding digestion. Doctors cite its use after meals to ease dyspepsia and demonstrate juice acting on raw steak to form gelatin and dissolve it. Cooking pineapple removes this virtue while the fruit itself remains generally harmless and sometimes beneficial.
A 1900s description explains seismographs using vertical or horizontal pendulums and recording through slit plates on bromide paper. Milne’s device uses a platinum sheet with dual slits to print movements as lines. a clockwork timer coordinates light exposure. Delicate instruments can register shocks even when women feel them.
Lincoln chose a nineteen year old Washington minister's son as his representative to the front. J Summerfield Staples served as a private in the 176th P V and a member of the 1 CG volunteers as Lincoln's substitute, later dying in Stroudsburg Pennsylvania.
The waiting infant upset the photographer’s chair and damaged display racks while a trying baby drew smiles for a fleeting moment. The mother calls him Tootsie while the photographer jokes about his stubborn temperament and clever nicknames end with the quip about being hard to photograph.
The earl claims deeper ancestry than the girl’s father, who retorts that his family cannot trace roots beyond a robber hanged in 1694. The exchange ends with a sharp quip about the ape.
A remark from the Christian Register notes that ancient peoples mastered the art of living happily, a practice now forgotten or neglected, while modern knowledge has grown vast yet may overlook true happiness.
Fragmentary Cleveland Leader item notes a pun on marriage prospects and primitive man, referencing Miss Boston Oh and Miss Cleveland in a brief dialogue style. The line hints at social dating norms and regional references without full context.
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