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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1900
Page
3
In a Daily Record office scene Billy Widger fears poetry as Perkins urges caution. Widger recalls a love lost to journalism and a tragic railway wreck where he found a wounded woman and faced a life changing moment amid darkness and danger.
Widger narrates a wreck aftermath in which a woman survives a train disaster and a mysterious locket reveals a self portrait. He resigns from the Gazette, returns to humor writing, and learns the newborn child may erase his memory of her. Perkins urges him to move on as the case closes.
A tongue in cheek New Orleans Times-Democrat item recalls a patient in a local infirmary praising a nurse as strictly professional yet strikingly attractive. The narrator’s attempts at romance are dismissed as the nurse keeps a clinical distance, using a thermometer to end flirtations.
A pale scholar challenges a burly robber who tried to force a stop in public, the man threatens violence, and the professor knocks him down. The incident centers on a rhetoric professor defending himself during a street hold-up.
The piece outlines travel options to South Africa, detailing ship lines from Southampton and London, fare ranges from $60 to $254, and sail times from 17 to 21 days. It compares German and British routes, notes wartime changes, and cites rail costs in Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg with telegraph rates as part of overall travel expenses. It concludes that a traveler should carry at least a thousand dollars to return without begging.
Col Isaac L Ellwood of De Kalb Illinois known as a barb wire magnate gave each of his five children a hundred thousand dollar check last Christmas morning and traded five ten dollar gold pieces for pin money. The self made western millionaire rose from clerk to founder of a barb wire empire and donated to education and public ventures.
The New York Sun praises Robinson of Boston for compiling a Lake Cobbosecontee chart with colorful Maine summer resort names. It highlights Long Potato Island Juggernaut Stream Jock-me yaw Stream Pickerel Alley and Cobbesseecontee Itself as vivid localities and pure joys of nomenclature.
A collection of pithy lines on political leadership and social influence. Colton notes the difficulty of pleasing friends versus perplexing foes while Greville observes governance by weaker or contrary-minded people. Marguerite de Valois contends women suffer more from disappointment due to faith and credulity.
Visitors to Chicago are urged to view the Dewey triumph at the Manila Bay cyclorama on Wabash avenue and Hubbard court. The scene has hosted leaders including President McKinley and Admiral Schley, and Admiral Dewey hopes to attend with Mrs. Dewey on May 1 if arrangements permit.
A collection of old anecdotes shows archbishops, professors, and noblemen trading quips on language and habit. The Archbishop of Canterbury mocks Melbourne with a curt curse and the Duke of Wellington parries a Frenchman’s habit claim with a pun about hands and feet.
The city of Benares is portrayed as a sacred center for Hindus comparable to Mecca for Muslims and Jerusalem for Jews. Its sacred atmosphere extends to buildings and ground, with the Ganges spanning a wide bay as temples, palaces, and mosques overlook a cliff and ghats along the river.
Private M. G. Blanchard of Windsor Nova Scotia writes from Richmond describing a Belmont to Richmond expedition. He notes rough travel out of the sands and sleeping outdoors on kopjes with a rock for a pillow, a blanket and rubber sheet for shelter, rain two nights.
The Ches terfield South Carolina court hears the case of Harvey and John Jackson accused of burning Cassie Bean a white woman. Tom Steers who aided the prosecution testified he was with Bean in the woods and that Ben and John Jackson were present. Sam Woodward heard Harvey Jackson threaten lethal harm.
A couple reconciles after a heated dispute over jealousy and pride. He admits fault and asks forgiveness, but she reveals she would have loved him more if he had not admitted being wrong, leaving their reunion heavy with unspoken doubt. Based on a Tom Masson piece in Puck.
A Washington Post note recounts a naive bride in a Columbia Heights apartment who keeps cheese and crackers out each night to feed mice rather than lock up provisions. Her amused elder housemate warns of risks from pests and items left exposed.
The article describes the pack saddle used by emigrants on primitive colonial roads as a forked tree branch fitted for carrying goods. It details its simple construction, how it was strapped to a horse, and its role in transporting provisions and household items, with a anecdote from an early preacher noting a fork in a tree used for such a saddle.
A Rochester mother describes her 8 month old with severe sores spreading over the neck and back. After failed treatments, Hood's Sarsaparilla plus Hood's Medicated Soap and Olive Ointment led to gradual healing, less discharge, and healthier skin over two bottle courses.
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