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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1894
Page
3
A Chicago Record inspired tale shows ward healers and colonizers using liquor and threats to influence votes. Cinch leads a lodge of drifters as Tommy repairs the scheme, steering voters to polling places while bribery and coercion run rampant.
The excerpt notes a woman's midday diet to avoid fatigue, recommending toast with cocoa or milk and a bread and milk option to sustain strength. It also highlights a New York Times feature on women and digestion. A trade item discusses a reversible rubber rag or carpet with durability and low manufacture cost.
Peter Hansen, a Norwegian boatman on Puget Sound, recounts a near shipboard encounter with a 150 foot sea creature described as a serpent head monster. He towed logs near his cabin as his dog Carl barked, the creature attacked, crushed the boat, and forced a frontiersman to sever its tail with a broadax while saving his life.
The International League of Press Clubs will hold its annual convention in Atlanta. Leading editors and publishers from the north, east and west will attend, with Atlanta touted as a major host city for this influential gathering. John A. Cockerill of New York is named president with Clark Howell filling a vacancy as vice president.
The San Francisco Examiner advises avoiding skins stones pips and seeds when giving fruit and jams to young children. Raspberry jam is unsuitable but raspberry jelly may be given. If a child eats slowly and chews thoroughly limit is unnecessary. do not bolt food. Do not add condiments. avoid salt and highly seasoned dishes. Sweets and cakes should be given sparingly.
The London Million records Lady Londonderry using idleness as a recuperative habit. Every ten days she bathes in the morning then returns to bed, stays until evening, wears a tea gown, dines in her own apartment, and rests on the sofa with a light novel. No intimate friend visits during the day.
Henry Palmirie of Chicago describes his self made seance method using a movable dial and a circle of letters to communicate with spirits. He says spirits choose letters by moving the dial and he notes encounters with relatives and hints of other worlds, though his wife fled the room due to nerves.
A narrative recounts nightly talks with spirits via a spirit board, naming Jules Jordan as a deceiver and describing realms of heaven purgatory and hades. The speaker cites communication about a sick sister, distant travels, and guards overseeing spirits, noting mixed truths and fiction in these séances.
The Pullman town legend chronicles Alexander Overplus rising from paintshop to town superintendent. A casual visitor remark on repainting spurs a drastic order to “paint the town.” Foreman executes the plan, billing escalates, and the joke ends with the foreman fired for misunderstanding.
London reports reveal novelist David Christie Murray faced a bow Street suit for abandonment and non support after leaving his wife due to her drunken habits. He testified that he now lives with a woman posing as his wife in a villa and that his earnings have declined from about £2500 yearly, forcing him to seek help from friends.
A passage discusses Berlin pickpockets thriving in crowds and theaters with female thieves using hooks under gowns. It contrasts thieves with mothers, urging women to stay fashionably dressed to earn respect and pride, citing Bulwer and Mrs. Burton Kingsland.
Baltimore authorities say John Mobley of North Carolina asks if a young prison inmate can be released by marrying him. The inquiry seeks a marriage based release with no other stated conditions.
Justice Schenchel fined two Black individuals $10 each for eating peanuts in a church, a ruling noted as a criminal offense in Baltimore.
The American Woman's Journal argues that improved bicycle design benefits women and that cross saddle riding could be made proper by divided skirts. It cautions that horseback riding harms growing girls, causing hip enlargement and leg atrophy, while bicycle riding is safer and beneficial. Belgium has crime laws on hypnotism.
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