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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1901
Page
5
J A Fillmore, who has resigned as Pacific system manager of the Southern Pacific railway after a lifetime of meritorious service, will receive 1000 dollars a month from the company until year end and a 500 dollars a month pension thereafter for life.
On his sixty first birthday, Thomas Hardy recalls starting to scribble at sixteen. In his youth he gained local notice as a writer and amanuensis, composing love letters for village girls sent to soldiers in India.
The piece notes Sir Walter Besant’s autobiography in the hands of A. P. Watt, Paul Bourget’s The Disciple in revival form, and portrait of Henry G. Weston at Crozer Theological Seminary. It highlights Julia Magruder’s A Sunny Sotherner and Ida M. Tarbell’s Life of Napoleon with a new Josephine appendix, praising dramatic style over standard biography.
This excerpt presents Whately advising that real improvement starts with the teachable. It warns against overreaching reform and emphasizes caring for digestion and circulation as a basis for health. It also uses the metaphor of lighting dry sticks to show how early successes aid broader change.
A Norwegian cave at Jorend Fjord reportedly flashes with lightning at every weather shift. A timber-dealing rule bans deck loads into British ports from late October to April 16. Palms live up to 260 years while ivy chestnut oak and yew reach ages of 450 860 1600 and 2880 years respectively. The Arabic vernacular shows extensive war vocabulary with over fifty names for the sword.
Dr Glenn takes vacation in Koohknong Wisconsin about 300 attend trolley party on Saturday. Elizabeth Bippus visits grandmother on Grand avenue. Mrs Yates paralyzed at 2473 Kinzie avenue and sent to county hospital. Calender of local notices includes library cards drive, local church sermons, and real estate and rental ads. A seven month old son ill at 305 8S 52d avenue. Union church defeats Sleepy Stockings 15 to 9 in a picnic baseball game. Laborer on C N W Ry injured by stone from fast train. several ribs broken. Bush Geita piano firm to open at 49th and Lake and plan mammoth building next door. Forties tenancy ads offer steam heated cottages with prices 18 to 25 dollars. The note ends with a science trivia: if globe surface were level water would cover to two miles.
A Philadelphia Times reprint outlines Prof Haeckel’s view that artificial life may be possible by creating protoplasm from basic elements. It explains protoplasm, cellular life, and differences between living and nonliving matter, noting plants convert elements to protoplasm while animals cannot.
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The Kansas City Journal recounts Frank Anderson a Galena traveler who joked about honey at a hotel supper as a waiter revealed the honey was tied to a missing person. It notes movable corrugated iron churches proposed by Pennsylvania’s Reformed church to replace permanent buildings, scalable to 300 seats at about 15000.
The Naval Museum in Paris receives the Dowager Empress of China’s yellow silk tent with gold and silver embroidery and dragon motifs. It was given to Colonel Laurent Cherlonchen by Ki-Chau’s Mandarin last November during eastern imperial tombs operations near Tong-Ling.
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