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Newspaper
Oak Park Review
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1901
Page
3
The Review mourns editor C C Roberts of the Chera Advocate and notes his recent bereavement. It details a proposed Camp Goodwill successor, urging funds for West Side Bureau of Charities outings for mothers and children. It also critiques party efforts to curb race track gambling and praises Fourth of July rhetoric and U S world role.
A collection of satirical proverbs reflecting on wealth, fortune, unions, prudence, and social behavior. It mocks shifting fortunes, legal minds, and pretentious pride while urging thrift and obedience to law.
New York City's debt stands at 283000000 with Chicago at 26000000 Philadelphia at 43000000 and Boston at 56000000 The oldest cities carry the heaviest debts according to the figures.
The Oak Park transcript reports multiple social items. Albert E. Berry and Jeannette Van Tyle wed at 4 p m June 25 at 1 Elizabeth Court with about twenty-five relatives present. Bessie Lee Shipley and Harry R. Henderson married June 25 at the bride’s brother’s home with green and white decorations. Mr. W. H. Drew named manager of Oak Park Telephone. Merrill leads a Lewis Institute tally-ho outing. A Simons hosts a trolley party for Irene Vincent. John Smillie dies at 36. Mrs. Parker and son plan a Vermont visit. Cimocks depart for the Buffalo Exposition.
Barrett Andrews will travel from Oak Park High School to Buffalo on July 3 as a delegate for the High School Fraternity convention. He will compete in athletics, aiming for honors in the 50, 100 and 230 yard dashes, and return aboard the Northland steamer. Mrs. C F Kannenberg has gone to Buffalo to see the exposition and visit relatives in Buffalo and Grand Island. A J Redmond will deliver the oration on July 4 before the Lawyers Conclave at Lake Zurich.
Political notes from the Cicero Advocate describe a recount in the old Tenth ward where numerous straight democratic ballots marked with ink for a ring cross favored William Lorimer for Congress when the cross was penciled in the Lorimer square. The piece also discusses West Park appointments and Lorimer allied power, naming Moxley Smyth and Mamer, along with potential successors and Conway as a possible Lorimer legacy in the new district.
A collection of aphoristic lines on character, time, and love. It argues that character cleansing is impossible by soap, effort should be applied only to improve things, and true heaven begins when hearts align. It laments wasted time and the limitations of language to depict love, urging devotion and service instead.
Edward Vero succeeds Alexis E. Frye as Cuba superintendent of schools and is described by the Havana Post as one of the island's best educated men.
Edward and Carl Rowe are spending a week or two with their aunt Mrs A I Bouffleur at the Fox Lake summer residence.
The clipped notes report on the Kimberly diamond field, Japanese shipyards for San Francisco and Seattle routes, Boise artesian water for street sprinkling, Canada forest export value of 29 954 689 dollars, spring millinery barter at Le Grand Iowa, German influence in Central American shipping, British shareholding in American railways, legacy for British heirs among deceased, a Philadelphia plan to build 222 houses for 750 000 dollars, Minnesota land demand, locomotive oil use, Missouri editorials on Willie Settle, Dr. Legrix warns women’s smoking harms, and Western Howland credited with refining petroleum.
The item notes C. M. Barnes resigns as Oklahoma governor to become bank president. It mentions the Princess Louise completing Victoria statues for Manchester cathedral. Duffaud's English in Ireland 1798 rumored linked to Maude Gonne. Sir Thomas Lipton discusses theater visits, gardening, and yacht racing. Edward Beaupre, an 814 foot Canadian giant, seeks a seven foot bride to win a prize in France.
York in Western Australia is a well known pastoral district sharing a peculiarly apt name due to the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall visiting Australia. The area was first settled by immigrants mainly from Yorkshire.
A New York Press piece humorously cites a Paris physician who suggested using ragtime to calm patients during anesthesia. It claims the Academy of Medicine endorsed the idea, proposing music to ease fear and alter perception as dentists perform procedures.
Paris newspapers hail a public duel between Jacques Sarcey and Laurent Tailhade. The elder critic’s claim of satisfaction met. Tailhade, one eyed and one armed, confesses a delusion of a duel. Both bow, peace is declared as the sparrows fly.
The article notes Porto Rico has 953 243 residents with 75 000 living in cities. The island spans about 100 miles by 36 and contains 40 000 district farms with one fifth under cultivation. Average farm size is 45 acres with 12 under cultivation. Whites own 71 percent of farms and 93 percent are owner cultivated, higher than the U S at 72 percent. Thirty eight percent of residents are colored, 83 percent of the colored are of mixed blood, and illiteracy runs high at about 84 percent.
The Chicago Tribune reports an estimated 8500 women in Chicago have been deserted by their husbands. Some fled, others stay as dependents, some return only when pressed by hunger, taking the last coin saved by the wife to sustain the home.
Adventurous explorers race toward the Arctic goal with Captain Bernier of Quebec planning to use strong camera equipped kites. Even if the Pole remains out of reach he aims to photograph inaccessible points from high altitude, hoping camera kite work proves practical in polar conditions.
A collection of Italian proverbs offering practical wisdom and social insight. Themes include prudence, self restraint, effort, perception, and moral cautions, with maxims on fortune, judgment, speech, work, pride, and human relations.
John Gilmer Speed foresees a surge in historical novels while Rudyard Kipling faces another copyright suit. Jean Coquelin shows promise as a dramatist with a popular Paris rendition of Quo Vadis. Admiral Evans publishes A Sailor's Log, a highly engaging memoir of forty years at sea. Mary E Wilking offers animal and flower inspired love stories. E S Maclay nears final edition of History of the Navy with support from Navy officials and wartime commanders.
The article highlights fashion details including pearl buttons as decorative features on gowns, inlaid wooden serving trays with glass and silver railings, red parasols favored at summer resorts, Olivines used in brooches shaped like grass blades, and smart low-necked lace boleros paired with tight-fitting lace sleeves for evening wear.
St Helena will host a university extension with the Cape University sending examiners to assess Boer prisoner students preparing to enter the university. The move aims to provide higher education opportunities on the island for the incarcerated youths.
Immigrants arriving from Europe this year surpass prior totals with many from southern Europe and Scandinavia. Italy supplies the largest quota as workers head west to join railroad extensions of the Burlington, Union Pacific, and Great Northern. Italians are described as the best track workers and are replacing Chinese laborers on the Pacific coast.
The New York Press notes critics rebel against month names. They argue it is odd that one sixth of the year honors Julius Caesar and Augustus, that two months are heathen gods, and that September is misnamed as the ninth month.
Paper storage guidance warns against folding silk in white paper due to lime bleaching damage. Brown or blue paper preferred with yellow India paper best. Silk for dress should not stay in homes folded long as it cracks. White satin dresses should be pinned in paper with coarse brown paper outside and sewn at the midpoints.
Lord Halsbury, the Lord Chancellor of England, is the son of fr. Stanley Lees Giffard, former editor of the London Standard for twenty seven years. His grandfather John Giffard was a Dublin politician and long time editor of the Dublin Journal. The Dublin Journal had been started and edited for fifty years by George Faulkner, ally of Swift and Chesterfield.
Dr. Max Farrand resigned the history professorship at Wes leyan university to join Leland Stanford Jr. university. He prepared at the Newark academy and graduated from Princeton with high honors in 1872. He spent two years post graduate study at Princeton then studied two years in Germany.
Nathaniel M Kay a former Boston shipbuilder now Washington hotel keeper asserts Congressman Boutelly of Maine loved Mrs Hazen before she wed Admiral Dewey. He claims her refusal to marry hastened Boutelly's mental collapse leading to his death.
The composer Mascagni, famed for Catone due to his work, is described as fond of jewelry. He reportedly wears bracelets and anklets, owning many rings and other valuables he bought with his own money among his personal effects.
English critic Arnold White observes decline in physical health of Britons. He cites Manchester recruiting data showing 8 004 of 11 000 volunteers deemed unfit for military life.
The Sultan of Turkey is devoted to chemistry and medicine and has studied remedies to treat his own ailments, fearing poisoning but treating only non serious illnesses.
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