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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1896
Page
3
Ruthven, a bachelor and famed dramatist, shuns matrimony and lords over a male circle at the Cannibal Club. He mocks love and social duties, avoids dinner parties, and remains cool and aloof with women while winning admiration from men for honesty and temper.
The London dramatist Ruthven attends a police court case where a thirteen year old girl Peg O Reilly is charged with stealing three onions. The scene reveals Ruthven’s compassion for the hungry street child and hints at his fear of public gossip about his private life.
In De Kalb a 13 year old boy named Arthur Roadhouse, born without legs, demonstrates a bicycle built for one arm. A local manufacturer adapted a wheel for him, and after weeks of practice he covers half a mile in under three minutes and aims for faster times, learning to dismount and ride unaided.
The article notes prisoners seek personal adornment despite strict rules, citing attempts to style hair with improvised items and even stealing soup for cosmetics. It laments degradation yet sees a faint human kinship in such behaviors and recalls the era's fashion trends like chignons and bell skirts observed in jail.
In Yonkers Alexander Memetti shot and killed his 16 year old stepdaughter Mary Butkowski then killed himself. The family of seven slept in one small room in 248 Ashburton avenue. Memetti remained devoutly religious but harbored deadly obsession with Mary, threatening to kill her after she rejected his advances.
W T Stead argues Traill Taylor, late president of the International Photographic Association, discovered invisible rays that impress images on sensitized plates without lenses. He says psychic photography shows objects invisible to the eye can be photographed, not spirits, but data for scientific study.
In a grim incident at a frame cottage on Nepperhan Avenue, Nemetti fatally shot Mary then killed himself after a struggle to force her return home. Mary had hidden revolvers earlier amid threats, with Nemetti’s violence escalating to the deadly outcome.
James Gallagher once ran a Lexington Missouri wreck causing seven or eight deaths. He gave himself up in Chicago claiming haunting visions of victims and that his faulty order led to the disaster. A Lexington telegram confirms his tale and confession.
Practical poultry treatise by Prof. Corbett claiming 6500 yearly with 12 hens, disease cures, and a 21 day period shortened. Demonstrated at agricultural fairs with many medals. Published by A Corbett Co with distributors McClurg & Co. in New York Chicago.
The dowager empress rises from destitute Canton peasants to a slave sale surrender, then to a general's adopted daughter in Peking. Her beauty and wit charm the general and the emperor, who marries her in a tale recounted by the Exchange.
On April 21 and May 25 excursion tickets go on sale from principal north towns to all Louisville & Nashville rail points in Tennessee Alabama Mississippi Florida and part of Kentucky at a single round trip fare. Tickets good for return within twenty one days with two dollar agent fee at destination and allow southbound stop overs. Inquiries to C P Atmore or J K Ridgely.
An Advertisement for the Corn Belt monthly from Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway outlines its purpose to present western farm lands. It lists world city populations and notes the Pilgrim-Easter Number due in April with articles by Capt. Charles King and Gov. Geo. W. Peck. It cites U S land value totals and offers copies via 415 Old Colony Building Chicago Illinois.
On April 21 and May 5 1896 the North Western Line will offer Home Seekers' excursion tickets at low rates to many points across Northern Wisconsin Michigan Northwestern Iowa Western Minnesota Nebraska North Dakota and South Dakota including the Black Hills district. For details contact ticket agents or write G P T A Kniskern Chicago. A stray exchange about identity ends with a joke in Cincinnati Enquirer.
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