Austin News Roundup Highlights Mail Schedules and Local Events
In Austin, details on mail arrivals and departures show times for East and West routes, with services closing at several daily intervals. Social notes mention Mrs. C A Zimmerman visiting the Amerson homestead and a Beethoven concert program featuring Miss Schaff Maude Jones and other artists. Community pieces cover a watchman’s theft, a Crescent Council surprise gift, Easter services at First Presbyterian Church, and an illustrated Palestine lecture series beginning next Sabbath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. A. Zimmerman
Amerson Homestead
North Central Avenue
Miss Schaff
Maude Jones
Thomas Hunter
Frank Colling
Llois Tenka
Randolph
Fifty-second Avenue
L. Hollenbeck
South
Waller Avenue
Crescent Council of the Home Circle
E. C. Weatwood
First Presbyterian Church
New Quartet
Ida Belle Freeman
Palestine
Gaza
Beirut
Plain of
Sharon
Tyre
Sidon
Dr King’s New Life Pills Offer Quick Headache Relief
Advertisements tout Dr King’s New Life Pills as a quick cure for sick and nervous headaches. The pills claim to purify blood and improve health. Sold by Traill & Cooling and Chas P Miller druggists for 25 cents with a money back guarantee not offered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
Traill & Cooling
Chas
P. Miller
Eura
Nervita
Iain Packane
Banka
Nervita Medical CO
Ginton& Jackson Sts
Chicago
Ill
Geo. R. Baker
Roath Bros advertise hay grain and new bicycle shop
Business notices promote Roath Bros hay grain and feed quality, announce improvements in sales, and introduce Peter Finnegan with a bicycle and repair shop at 5645 Lake Street offering prompt service. Miller's drug store advertises candies perfumes prescriptions cigars and varied brands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roath Bros
Austin and
Oak Park
Lake Street
Peter H. Finnegan
Miller’s
Lazell
Miller's
Miller’s Drug Store
Key West
Charles P. Miller
The Colossus Fumbles Marriage Drama Of Ceci Rhodes
Ceci Rhodes loses temper over a private secretary’s marriage. He storms out, then forgives by giving diamonds and carriage to the bride, yet refuses further employment. The incident ends with the notion that matrimony is an unforgivable crime in his view.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ceci Rhodes
Oak Park Notices and Social Roundup 1900
W T Smith of Forest avenue improves after illness. Mrs. W T Smith hosts visitors from Chicago. Miss Catherine Search praised for paper. Archie W Sinden engaged to Katherine Woodward. Sinden to wed May 18 and join a Fargo parish. Fred J Bunger of Oak Park to marry Basale Allspaugh in New York. couple to reside in Oak Park. Epworth League leads church services at First M E Church. Home Missionary Society meets. program features local talent. Dinner for eight hosted by George Warren Furbeck. Oak Park Club dance attendance. Oak Park High School scene with Mr A B Fairbanks’s class. New baby Fairbanks welcomed. Unclaimed letters listed at Oak Park post office. Delta Kappa Sigma fraternity initiations at Oak Park High School. Grace Carr hosts Easter breakfast for new members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knights Templars
Catherine Search
Archie W. Sinden
Wesley Avenue
Katherine Woodward
Louisville
Oak Park
Sinden
Chicago Theological Seminary
Fargo
N. D
Fred J. Bunger
H. C. Clifford & Co
Randolph Street
Bsale L. Allspaugh
New York City
Grooss
German Lutheran Church
Lou
Myrtle Peter
Marie Bell
Chicago
Darling
Treadway
LaGrange
Harrington
Oak Park Club
A. B. Fairbanks
Oak Park High School
H. A. Hall
M. Judd
Mrs. Long
Miss Magill
Marion L. Mahoney
W. H. McAllister
J. G. Moore
H. P. Moyes
Mr. Muhr
Frank Nye
Tina Olson
J. A. Price
W. P. Price
A. Read
L. N. Rogers
Mary Sasen
R. H. Sanders
F. L. E Schulze
Miss Senn
Clarence Steele
Josephine Swansson
Wagner
Mary Williams
Delta Kappashi Fraternity
Brooklyn
Evanston
Dearborn Seminary
Hyde Park
Grace Carr
Home Avenue
Mrs Butler Delivers American Humor Lecture to Lime Kiln Club
Mrs Butler of 116 Wisconsin avenue gave a bright and engaging lecture Saturday evening before the Lime Kiln Club and invited guests at the home of Mr and Mrs Robert Kerr on South Elmwood avenue. She drew humorous selections from Bill Nye James Whitcomb Riley and others, comparing American wit favorably with foreign writers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butler
Wisconsin Avenue
Lime Kin Club
Robert Kerr
S. Elmwood Avenue
America
Individuality of Style at Mutinery Parlors in Austin
Personal attention offered at Mrs. C. Ella Taylor’s Mutinery Parlors located at 1121 N Park Ave Austin. Contact number 1472 for appointments and style services.
Local man dies by self-inflicted gunshot despondent
The death is ruled a suicide as the man shot himself in the right temple with a revolver. His body was taken to Drexler's morgue for inquest, and a verdict consistent with the facts was returned. He leaves a wife he has not cohabited with for twelve years. Burial occurred at Waldheim on Wednesday.
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Drexler
Waldheim
Lengthy English Words In Technical Textile Mercury
The article notes readers' alarm about German technical progress being offset by a learned Textile Mercury. It cites exceedingly long terms such as paraamiodiphenylamine sulphonic acid diazotizing and coupling to form complex dyes for wool, illustrating linguistic complexity.
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Mercury
Bucklen's Arnica Salve Cures Scald Head Case
A Mor ganton Tennessee mother describes a severe outbreak with large sores on her daughter's head that developed into scald head. Bucklen's Arnica Salve fully cured her. The ad touts a guaranteed cure for eczema tetter salt rheum pimples sores ulcers and piles priced at 25 cents at local outlets Traill and Cooling and Charles P Millers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. D. Isbell
Morganton
Tenn
Bucklen
Traill & Cooling
Chas
P. Miller’s
Woman's Exchange Hosts Lunches In Oak Park
On South boulevard Oak Park the Woman's Exchange offers light noon dinners and lunches featuring home made coffee and cake at reasonable prices.
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South Boulevard
Oak Park
Panama Canal Work Feasible Dam Plan Confirms
Alfred Noble, engineer with the American canal commission in Central America, returns home and confirms the bona fide character of the work on the Panama Canal. He states the Panama company is cutting through the great divide and has found a feasible way to dam the Chagres river.
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Panama Canal
Alfred Noble
American Canal Commission
Central America
Panama Company
Chagres River
Harlem Election Returns Show Landslide for Municipal Party
Harlem voters backed the Municipal People's party with a full ticket in a decisive local election. Majorities were 172 for President Arthur W. Kistenbroker, 220 for Trustee Henry Zimmermann Sr, 126 for August Thode, 86 for Fred Meyer, and 157 for Clerk John Koppelmeyer, while Police Magistrate Eugene A. Mathiot led by 66. The 2 mill tax for a free public library failed amid voter indifference. The Harlem Woman's Club schedules its next meeting for May 2. Also noted, Winslow of River Forest will compare the Boston Library and the Congressional Library. In unrelated news, the body of August Stark was found near the Desplaines River at Tuxedo Park after late Saturday evening discovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlem Woman’s Club
Boston Library
Congressional Library
Winslow
River Forest
Harlem
Municipal People’s Party
Arthur W. Kistenbroker
Henry . Zimmermann, Sr
August Thode
Fred Meyer
John Koppelmeyer
Eugene A. Mathiot
George Schrade
Charles, Hiltner
John P. Eee
Tuxedo Park
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GEND
Book OF Designs
ER. Moore
Austin Steam Dye
D. R. Schermerhorn
KENNARD _BARRADELL
Atest
Schmitz
North Park Avenue
Hocking Valley
McIntyre
Ruxton
Austin Yard
Kinzie Sts
P. B. Saur
F.m. Champlein
John Price
Fieas
News OF the Town
Malle
Postofice
Malla Clons
Howard Robertson
Business Personals
Leeding Dry Goods
Cecil Rhodes
Paren
Lime Kiln Club
Mrs. C. Ella Taylor
N. Park Ave
Arthur J. Kendall
Justice of the Peace
S. Clark &J
Telephone Main
August Terneak & CO
Goode
Oak Park, Ill
S. Mohn & Son
Marion
Tate Lente
Emerson Ingalls
Reone
Mascale Biech
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Ted 157
Cts
Groth & Klapperich
OAK Park Shoe Store
Fowler
Morrow
Austin Bicycle Works
W. H. Briggs
North Park Ave
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J. A. & B. McCann
Bis
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Standard Bath Cabinet Co
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