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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1901
Page
7
Captain Chapman of the New York night police offers a day off to any officer who makes a good arrest. The incentive acknowledges the burden of taking a prisoner to court and losing sleep.
The Standard, a palatial steam yacht built at Copenhagen for Czar Nicholas, features a church-like interior near the imperial cabins. The craft reportedly cost over 12,000 kroner or clo ge, about 3,000,000 dollars, with its exterior styled after a Greek Orthodox church and decorated with painted panels of saints and madonnas.
Captain Augustty Vautier of the Swiss army has devised a camera capable of capturing views from sixty to eighty miles away. It promises to photograph the Alps in grand detail and make previously unattainable scenes accessible to photographers. A remarkable shot of the Santis from Mauborget reportedly achieved with this device.
Mrs. Colburn sick with pneumonia. Mrs. Perry relocates to North Side with daughter. EK Millapaugh visits before moving to California. Fashion emphasis from Mrs May Nard. Union Sunday School reports 166 attendees and twelve prizes. veterans Kushion and Wagner return from the Philippines. Chas Furlong home after hospital release. Elizabeth M. Bippus opens Hanover Fire Insurance office at 569 North Forty-eighth Ave. Rev Campbell to speak on “The Young Man.” Funeral of Mrs Phoebe Campbell noted with pallbearers. Officer Jacob Johnson injured on Lake Street Elevated. Local ads for ice cream and other goods at 48th and Lake. Also notes on palm fiber uses and Czar Nicholas yacht features.
W T French of Jacksonville highlights saw palmetto as a versatile fiber source with fiber mattresses cheaper and longer lasting than hair or wool. It resists bedbugs, serves as carpet lining, packing for fragile goods, and even as plastering substitute, offering broad commercial potential for the South.
The Corcoran art gallery at Penn avenue and Seventh street, now rented to the United States as the court of claims, will be purchased by the government for 3 million. Owners have received 10 thousand dollars annual rent. The sale proceeds will be invested and only the income used, not to buy new pictures.
A giant black walnut tree on K. P. Gaus’s Williams county farm sold for $4,000. Lumber dealers praised its outstanding quality after sampling chips. The tree measured eight feet in diameter, rose forty feet above the stump, and stretched seventy three feet to the first limb.
The article advises using a two thirds alcohol and one third sweet oil mix to remove ink stains from wood. For fresh small stains the method suggests breathing on the spot to dampen it then rubbing gently. this method may lift the stain in many cases.
Northern Indiana farmers experiment with domestication of quail reporting highly gratifying results. Most farms maintain one to three coveys and provide careful care, feeding during snow season, with some birds becoming so tame they roost with barnyard fowl.
Buzzards are enlisted to assist Charleston in scavenging the town. A $5 penalty is imposed for harming any member of this urban scavenging unit. Their favored site is the old market house on Meeting Street.
The article states there will be no Negro member elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress. Claude Kitchin is named as the successor to the only colored member in the current Congress, having been reelected with a substantial majority.
A collage of notes covers taxes on sugar in Britain, Catholic bishops, hotel death deposits in Switzerland, Black representation in North Carolina, the Philippines first electric signal corps car, khaki fashion, Boston child deaths, Scranton mining accidents, Japanese Tacoma residents, glucose from corn starch, olives in California, no queen olive variety, Dresden sculptors protests, heating in European railway cars, and electric shocks to stop a horse from kicking.
The New York Times describes skirts with chiffon flounces trimmed by rows of baby ribbon. Black and white striped skirts feature wide flounces and lace, while net flounces with pinked silk ruching and ribbon clusters create pinked accents.
A report notes that British colonies are seventy times larger than the United Kingdom in area. A Kentucky court of appeals holds a bankrupt is exempt from alimony. Russia issues ukase barring liquor to Twentieth Army Corps troops. Global population is said to have doubled in a century.
The article notes dramatic economic gains with wealth up fourteenfold and agriculture rising from 100 million to near 3 billion dollars annually. Farm values reach about 15 billion, while Arctic red snow is linked to a vegetable substance per Utica Globe.
A Chicago Record style roundup notes humorists misplacing jokes and the idea that favors owed are not deserved. It reflects on how society, policy, and business blur truth, leaving it hard to address all troubles at once.
The fragment cites Mme de Stael claiming Trutti is the work of God while Mes are the work of man, reflecting a historical quotation context and authorial attributions.
Chapman Shenandoah of Oneida New York is the sole Indian in the United States Navy serving as a chief machinist aboard the Atlanta after enlisting in this city and joining the Marietta. He hails from Oneida and is a descendant of Daniel Shenandoah last chieftain of the Oneidas. The German army in China shows that American and Australian charges are unsatisfactory there. The crew face long sea voyages and unfamiliar food with limited forage. Mongol ponies are proving useful.
Greenville Banner editor was mobbed and severely beaten returning from Farmersville where he spoke on law and order. The assailants acted in response to his remarks, leaving him injured.
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