07 Apr 1899
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1899
Page
1
A jumble of local cues and aphorisms from The Oak Park Vindicator lists addresses in Michigan and Chicago, cites a branch office, and shares humorous maxims about life and work. It references a merchant funding public servants and a Western professor thawing frozen water pipes with electricity.
A German husband insulted the Kaiser at a Spandau dinner leading to arrest while his wife, loyal to rule, denounced him. The piece also reports Congress approving 1.21 million dollars for the Paris exposition with a central building on the Seine and an American eagle statue, plus a UK newspaper ad seeking a servant with blue eyes and a St. Louis man clinging to a twenty year umbrella.
The article details a yearly Valentine society in France where men and women join a parade on February 14 riding two by two. Cupid leads a pageant to the town hall where Love is worshiped and partners are chosen for the year. Each gentleman must be faithful and perform gifts or be expelled by excommunication.
The Todus near Ootacamund pursue annual buffalo slaughter for ancestral souls. Government bans wholesale killings, allowing two buffaloes per slaughter site, prompting more sites and continued, intensified sacrifice.
Mrs Krona Junice Wait seeks recognition as the nation’s official wine expert. She has studied wines extensively and travels among society to educate on refined serving and drinking. Her friends regard her as able to distinguish good from bad wine through long study and observation.
An academy prize honors M Weari de Regnier a poet who married renowned sonneteer M de Heredia. The award is described as collateral merit since it acknowledges his wife who published anonymously in Revue des Deux Mondes with a poem Rencontre avec Persephone. Anonymous work cannot be crowned, so he wears his wife's laurels.
For the Van Dyck tercentenary to be celebrated in Antwerp in August, one million special postage stamps will be issued bearing a portrait from Gerard Postielje’s drawing. The commemorations include an historical procession tracing art from earliest times to Rubens, outlined by the organizing committee.
After a wreck off False Bay the ship Ter Schilling breaks apart. Philip Vanderdecken narrowly saves Mynheer von Stroom and Johannes the bear, endures a brutal desert march with Hottentot allies, then is aided by a krall chief to reach Table Bay. He boards a homebound vessel, returns to Amsterdam, and resumes life with Amine as he resumes a new voyage as second mate on the Batavia.
Harper's Magazine notes the sultan rises at five with a staff of secretaries sleeping in palace rooms. Munir Pasha praises his extraordinary self control and impassive calm, while his quiet dignity and pleasant smile impress visitors. Audiences follow the Selamlik in a generals uniform. Do not neglect polished shoes.
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