15 Apr 1898
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1898
Page
1
A fragmented Chicago area page reviews wartime ethics and pacifist ideas, notes the Canadian ban on Sunday papers, and reflects on Zola and Dreyfus. It muses on the Antarctic continent, christening ships, and a publisher who failed after multi-venture careers. An experiment at Clark University studies alcohol effects on cocker spaniels.
A travel writer describes New Orleans cuisine from coffe and breakfast rhythms to legendary chefs. He details coffee making, bread, and a menu heavy with garlic mushrooms truffles omelets and meats shaped into rich compositions, all washed down with claret in a tea-diluted tumbler.
A letter to the Fam Herald recalls a corn hat made by a Birmingham worker and related anecdotes about Matthew Boulton and Murdoch at the Soho Works. It notes Boulton’s sharp eye for mechanics and mentions an early lazy bedstead timed by a clock shown at Lambeth Baths around 1801 or 1865.
A countryman entered a newspaper office to place a death notice for a relative. The clerk quoted two dollars per inch. The man replied that amount was unaffordable as his friend stood six feet three inches tall.
A dialect sketch questions how humor travels among nations and social classes. It contrasts different people’s values, from a poodle to a baby, and notes how wealth changes behaviors and terms. The piece jests about hats, entertainment, and voices, ending with a caricature of Nashville Americans style.
A vivid account of West Indian hurricane cycles and historic naval wrecks. It details 1830s and 1888 storms that sank or damaged vessels like the Ville de Paris Ramilles Nipsic Trenton Vandalia Calliope and others, the peril of harbor storms, and legendary scenes of sailors surviving by clinging to rigging amid raging seas.
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