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Oak Park Vindicator

Location

Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Apr 17, 1896

Page

6

Cicero Town Board Approves Major Contracts April 11 1896

Cicero trustees meet in the town hall with most members present. The session awards several contracts totaling near $40,000 and authorizes street, sewer and sidewalk work while planning a cigarette ordinance and new taxes.

Board of Trustees Town of Cicero Austin Frankland West Fifty Feet Ridgeland C. B. Scoville Charles B. Scoville Scoville Andrews & Piper Stanley Avenue Ogden Street Railway Company Cheney Ogden Street Rail Way Company W. G. Schultz Schultz Oak Park P. B. Weare Morton Park Jefferson Jackson C. T Jane Wrigley P. A. Downey Clyde Paul G. Biggs Gunthrop Merrick Mary L. Niles Pr. B. Weare Robinson Avenue Viaduct Brown Robinson Avenue Mandell Antony Ludzak P. O. Reifsnider Washington Boulevard Austin Avenue Attridge Lombard Ridgland Avenue Harvey Ridgeland Avenue

The Passion for Athletics in Ancient Festivals

Ancient stadium crowds of up to forty thousand gathered for athletic contests. The scene blended commerce, culture, and philosophy with sport, uniting Greeks across vast regions. Lucian and Solon are cited praising athletes’ bravery, beauty, and relentless effort.

Lucian Greece Solon Allan Marquand

Public expenditures list from the House of Correction board

The board approved payments to multiple suppliers and services including coal from Hull & Co and Berwyn & Clyde, printing by Wm. Halley, street lighting by Globe Light & Heat Co, inspections by numerous contractors, expert witness fees, cleaning and maintenance charges, and cash advances totaling several hundred dollars, then adjourned.

V. Oblinski Morton Park Fire Co W. P. Dunn Co S. D. Attridge A. J. Cheney Wm. Halley W. G E. UL. Co J. Herr Elec Wm. Williams T. W. Gale Berwyn & Clyde Hull & Co Bas John Cline Traill & Robinson D. Oliphant Treas Jones Stationery Co Kenwood Bridge Co S. Af. Baker C. J. Lindgren W. W. Owen John Clark D. N. Gordon Channing Taylor Berty&. Betts H. C

Ugly ducklings who became swans in history

Ruth Ash notes that beauty can be forged by effort in Ladies' Home Journal. The piece cites Rachel who blossomed from an ugly child to a charming woman, Adelina Patti once seen as the ugly duckling, Mary Anderson valued for intellect over looks, and others who proved beauty evolves with time.

Ruth Ashmore Ladies’ Home Journal Rachel Adelina Patti Carlotta Mary Anderson George Knot

Pathans of Peshawar Train Thieves For Youth Education

Reported in a praise filled note, mothers in Peshawar educate children to become successful thieves as a primary aim. The method emphasizes physical strength and daily prayers for future success in crime. Travelers attest to the effectiveness of this education system.

Peshawar Ifin

Gifted Divine Rev Frank J M Vrooman Called by Kenwood Church

Rev Frank J M Vrooman of Boston, Harvard educated and Oxford Berlin trained, has been extended an informal call by Chicago’s Kenwood Presbyterian church. His career spans Holloway London Beecher Elmira and Salem Street Congregational posts. He studied sociology at Toynbee Hall and taught in Oxford.

Frank B. Vrooman Boston Kenwood Presbyterian Church Chicago Mr. Vrooman Harvard Oxford Berlin London Toynbee Hall Holloway Congregational Church Beecher Elmira N. Y Thomas K. Beecher Henry Ward Beecher Vrooman

Tendency of humor in American life spurred by adversity

The article quotes H. L. Wilson of Puck on how Americans turn to humor when facing job loss and strikes. It notes many men improvise for the humor press, often with death or coffin imagery, and that popular song titles tempt beginners to create cartoon captions.

H. L. Wilson Puck Funny Papers

Vrooman's Lineage and a Clock That Stopped at Lincoln's Death

Worcester residents note Mr. Vrooman here, a descendant of Count Egmont and a strong speaker, while Atlanta observers recall the Whitehall street clock that halted at 8 18 the night Lincoln died. The piece also surveys jokes, parodies, and editor attitudes toward humor in newspapers.

Whitehall Street Alabama The Atlanta Journal Lincoln John Wilkes Booth

Mark Twain Lecturing in Egypt Amid Health Rumors

Mark Twain is currently giving lectures in Egypt. Earlier reports claimed he was dying in Bombay, India, but those rumors were proven false.

Mark Twain Egypt Bombay India

Kentucky Oldest Club Members Impress Lexington

In Lexington Kentucky an old people’s club lists its members with surprising ages. The youngest is 139 years old, with members aged 99 two at 83 and two older, highlighting remarkable longevity among the group.

Lexington Pleete

Sledge and Anvil: Reflections on Reform and Duty

A sequence of aphoristic observations contrasts outward appearance with inner virtue. It argues reform begins within the self, uses spiritual movement as measure, and notes compassion over clinical indifference. It asserts timeless gospel claims and the need to crown Christ with thorns or jewels.

Lazarus Christ

The Paris Cabby and the Insurance Joke

A Pittsburgh Dispatch barb jokes about Paris cabbies and insurance. It notes cabmen pay premiums and that only the insurer suffers in a smashup. It recalls a past cabman who feigned distress to extract payments from English tourists by exploiting accidents.

Paris Pittsburgh Dispatch

Ants Used in Ancient Surgery in Levant

Ancient accounts describe Greek barber surgeons using large ants to clamp wound edges. A trapped ant bites with its mandibles and its head separates while still gripping the edges, holding the wound closed. People reportedly wore wounds closed by seven or eight ant heads.

Levant

Noted Dilemma in Harlem Lite Cartoon Panel

The strip riffs on friendship and romance as Madge debates between Jack and a friend, teasing that she could have both if possible. The dialogue plays with choices and affection in a lighthearted, humorous tone.

Madge Jack Harlem Lite

Labor unrest across cities and unions shake early 20th century

Labor notes report typographical unions forming in Kingston Hun son and Calgary with a national socialist ticket planned in St. Louis. Cincinnati bricklayers strike for 4 60 a day eight hours and Chicago printing trades unite at about five thousand members. East Peoria miners accept an eight cent pay cut after two months on strike. Indiana federation convention will be held in Anderson as part of a record turnout. National Typographical organizer Maas works in Indiana organizing Elwood Dunkirk Vincennes. Audit of the International Typographical union shows around 50000 in treasury. Clothing cutters and trimmers strikes swell with 1000 workers quitting in Chicago. Pittsburg window glass workers face internal clashes with President Burns deposed and the union threatened.

Kingston Hunson N. Y Calgary Cincinnati Socialistic Labor Party St. Louis Chicago East Peoria Ill Indiana State Federation Anderson Printing Trades New York City Maas International Typographical Union Indiana Elwood Dunkirk Vincennes L. P. McCormick R. K. Hudnall Frank A. Park Window Glass Workers’ Association of Pittsburg Simon Burns Setign Dla Oy

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Cicero Town Board Lombard Avenue Clyde Fire Department Fire Department of Gustave Wallenberg Central Avenue Chicago Avenue Cornelia Street Gunthorp Henry Rath Poplar Willow Avenues C. F. Jobson J. E B. Wall Geo. F. Lyon Jas. Lloyd W. B. Jaycox Bertha Folzke A. Wohlhuter A. Giacielli Committee of the Whole Kenilworth Avenue Dolesel Shepard Cuyler Avenue Wm. M. Edwards Woodbine Avenue R. F. Conway Grove Avenue R. Conway Garfield Avenue Richardson & Young Cicero Avenue Rylands & Hall Thirty-first Street Ryland & Hall James Glynn Flancock and Garfield Avenues Finance Committee Hawthorne Harrison, Polk and Quincy Lyman Avenue McCallum Street Erie Street Franklin Prairie Avenue R. H. Traill Lake Street W. C. Curtis Master Plumbers’ Association John N. Young Jno Metropolitan 1. Road Metropolitan Electric Street Railroad Company Northern Electric Company Geo. P. Nauert Committee On Streets and Highways South Boulevard Harlem Parker Weinman S. S. Greeley Conrad Auw N. W John J. Kelley Northern Pacific Railroad Wisconsin Central Railroad Wesley Avenue Richy Thirteenth Street Oak Park Avenue Euclid Twelfth Street Euclid and Wesley Avenues Wesley Clarence Avenue Twelfth Fifty-third Street Clark Street Reifsnider Et al North Boulevard Harvey Avenue Cicero and Proviso Street A. G. Palmer Committee of Fire and Water of New Board Wenona Avenue Home Avenue Harrison Swinscoe Wenona Home Avenues Twelfth Streets South Kenilworth Sewer Norwood Construction and Electric Company Chicago & Northern Pacific Railroad Storr’s Place Clyde Avenue Alley Storrs’ Place Humphrey Avenue Randolph Street Frink Street Lyman McCullum Street Willow Avenue Pine Twenty-eighth Street Twenty Sixth Street Madison Jackson Street Harrison Street York Street Quincy Street Fifty‘third Street Kinzie Street Ogden Street Railroad Company T. E. Gilpin Cicero Lumber Co Bryant Bros C. H. Reynolds W. G. Davis Theo. Ludeman Belle Skillin J. W. Yale Aaron Meredith WG. & Ell, Co Hn. F. Stevenson Thos, Ellis Lighlus Booy i W. Johnston Horse Shreing G. Goelitz Plumhi Te Vira Co Vyas B. Flaeter Necro Gas Venta Frank Jm. Vrooman Thoreon Worcester Mass John ©. Black Egmont Gavre Alva Atlanta the Raven Hamlet George N. Curzon Kentucky LABOR
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