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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1898
Page
7
Oak Park town items include military enlistment notices, unclaimed letters, moving services from C F Drechsler at 110 Lake Street, and Miller’s drug store ads. Patriot gatherings at Hoard's hall and a Baptist church Men’s League meeting reflect civic spirit and community vendors.
Edith Ames ill with typhoid fever. Miss Mary Pegues visits Ridgeland. Local residents move and travel, new homes planned, and a silver wedding postponed due to Mrs Kemp’s illness. Evening concerts, club meetings, and a Maywood High School incident note schoolyard surprise. The May 1900 era tone frames daily life and small town events.
An 1900s style health ad claims good looks depend on liver stomach and kidney health. Electric Bitters acts on those organs to purify blood and clear pimples blotches and boils. Guaranteed and sold at Lovell's and Rail's Austin for 50 cents a bottle.
Maywood community items report Dr Wool Adams singing with the Seated Choral Society at Pullavan, 16 Norton Bros. workers going to the front, Miss Sturgis replacing Prof Owen in high school, and Maywood contingent headed to Springfield with the First. Captain Sampson may sail to Havana Morro, furniture wagon and troops share streets. Staff correspondent Kennett Harris sails with the First. Mrs Harris to Dakota to stay with her mother. Cooperative Missionary Society sews at Mrs Stevens home. May Benjamin wins the popular vote race on the Dispatch and earns a Europe trip. Howard Evans enlists in Company I First regiment. Woman's Club hears Mrs McMurphy on River Gods. Frank Johns to leave for front. Rev CLS Bullock granted leave to serve as chaplain. Southern cities complain of mobile-ization. jokes on Atlanta-Montgomery. Dr Ruggles moves family to Oak Park. will keep part time work in Maywood. High school students continue activities.
Miss Hopkins hosts a card party. Frank Beddard returns from a eastern states trip. Turners Chas Koppen William Warmecke Theo Pages head to Springfield. Lily Karsten dies of typhoid pneumonia at eight. Mrs Au Gust Karsten is her mother. Lizzie McCoy marries Frank Haggard at home. they plan a St Louis wedding trip. Harlem turnverein plans May 1 concert and ball at Gaden's hall with Chicago singing clubs. Fleets Bursche operetta featured. 25 cent admission. Albert Rojahy of Desplaines Avenue Forest Home dies after wagon accident. funeral at Forest Home.
River Forest residents report moves and visits including Mr Humphrey returning to Oak avenue and Mr Arnold relocating from Chicago. The Pearlen baseball team led 6 to 4 over River Forest at ninth inning end. A birthday party for Miss Jennie St Paul drew twenty couples with dancing and supper. Special church services mark Westminster standards adoption with Rev Boyd delivering sermon.
Ancient explorers sought pearls in rivers and seas long before Rome. Pearl fishing thrived in the Gulf of Manaar in the twelfth century with thousands of boats. Bombay emerged as a major pearl mart, while Indian and Arab tastes shaped markets and jewelry. Pearls are sorted by brass sieves and named by attributes of luster and shape.
Tae Oak Park hosts Sunday services in Avenue hall with a May 1 discussion on Jesus triumphal entry. Friday evening a Dispensary meeting at Steiner block. G B Gibbs, clerk, notes First Baptist says the morning sermon begins a series on The Testing Time and Christ’s character. evening asks Why Tarriest Thou.
Gossip notes Andrew Lang plans a Scotland history with autumn details. John Oliver Hobbes writes Locrine and Cowendotene a historical romance. Hugo, Blanc, and Phier potential earnings cited. Tolstoi pigeonholes manuscripts and Sienkiewicz serials intrigue readers. Quo Vadis and Sienkiewicz wealth estimates discussed.
The article discusses surviving gloves claimed to belong to figures like Shakespeare, Mary Queen of Scots, Louis XVI, Charles II, and Charles II again. It notes their large size, buff leather, and elaborate embroidery with silver and gold threads, some adorned with precious stones, and contrasts them with simpler pieces from Worcester Fight era.
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