02 Aug 1895
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1895
Page
1
Weekly Review lauds the falls of the American River 24 miles from Sacramento as a model for powered cities. It envisions streetcars and industry running on water power, with new suburbs and manufacturing centered around the falls, signaling a future in which electricity replaces coal and steam for city needs.
The piece notes Georgia farmers will benefit from strong crops and the Atlanta exposition drawing buyers from across the U S and Latin America. It references debt among farmers, hopes for cash from surplus produce, and contrasts temperance pledges with festival drinking customs in a compact, period tone.
A New York critique describes the Woodstock prison camp where inmates, led by Kupene Vo Debs, engage in strict daily routines. They rise at 6, drill and gym, study economics from 7:50 to noon, walk during dinner, resume study, and debate from 7 to 10. The piece argues such discipline could forge learned, healthy men capable of discerning leaders.
Colonel George F Waring recruits unpaid youth to enforce street cleanliness. A corps of volunteer junior street cleaners, organized into a league with badges, polices the avenues guiding offenders to use ash barrels and dispose of trash properly. The program improves districts once considered dirtiest.
During the Civil War era Cherokee families hired Bryant a Tahlequah dawyer to recover a U S payment. After decades he helped secure a congressional act granting about 200000 dollars, one fourth to Bryant and the rest to heirs. Some receive over 1500 dollars others mere cents as shares are divided. Bryant, now 78, pursued the claim through many trials and finally saw it settled. South Carolina cotton mills rise with northern capital, and with outlaws dead Oklahoma may gain rest from the Bills.
A St Louis Joke Democrat correspondent recounts Governor Thornton and Santa Fe Sheriff William P. Cunningham cracking a Las Vegas gang of robbers and murderers. Thirty seven gang members are behind bars after Cunningham’s investigation, exposing leaders including the Las Vegas sheriff and prominent locals.
A Pittsburg lawsuit pits Mrs. Burke against Patrick Feeny over a sleeping incident with a goat. If the goat dies, damages for loss of the animal apply. if it recovers, Feeny pursues damages for loss of his beard. The outcome hinges on the animal’s fate.
A collage of futuristic notions from an electric table waiter to grand world figures. The piece mentions Queen Olga, the sultan of Turkey, the khedive of Egypt, and King Humbert of Italy. It notes a French parliament proposal for arbitration with the United States amid rising armaments. It also muses on millennium signs, Professor Rudolph Gneist’s late life, and land shares under partition.
Mandell real estate gains spur demand as the Metropolitan L line opens. Salisbury Collins profit from land trades. Mrs Thorp welcomes a daughter and Mande residents plan a Peter's Hall dance on August 17. A blacksmith foreman suffers a forearm injury. a Metropolitan L train crash causes alarm but no major damage.
The Austin Senate holds an open meeting at Odd Windows Hall on July 18 to discuss bill No. 50 for free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at 16101. Public reaction runs strong with Senators Burras Dunlop and Monroe expounding opposing views on monetary policy and silver’s role.
A group of Oak Park residents gathered at Mr Jones residence on Kenilworth Avenue to discuss founding a YMCA. They agreed a well run building with an active secretary would aid young men morally physically and financially and are circulating pledges to reach 200 members at five dollars each to start operations.
The Master Plumbers Association of Cicero has formed a temporary Cicero association and approved amendments to the Cicero plumbing ordinance. The amended ordinance sits with the committee and can be inspected via the Town Board proceedings. The group aims to protect Cicero licensed plumbers from Chicago competitors who operate without town licenses.
A demented girl named Delia Keaxse ler, about 16, was found by a 30th Precinct officer wandering near Forty-eighth end Lake streets in More- Ind. Her torn clothes and dirtied appearance indicated she had slept on the ground for days. She had vanished from home a week to ten days ago and was taken to Detention Hospital.
Massive turnout marks the funeral of the late John V. Cummings held Sunday week, with floral tributes from fire departments of Oals Park Austin and Ridgeland. The procession to Forest Home Cemetery gathered sorrowing relatives and friends as mourners reflected on a bright, short life and a community’s sorrow.
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