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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1894
Page
6
The piece reviews designers presenting fall innovations in fabrics and silhouettes. It highlights 1830s inspired gowns with varied sleeves and belts, new wedding gifts, evolving bonnets, draped overskirts, and the shift toward bold color palettes and refined accessories, noting practical concerns about costly, ornamental tableware and gifts.
A fragmented, archaic sounding piece discusses rabies symptoms and bite danger. It mentions Pasteur, Glasgow, and a method of tracing bites with an eight day observation period. The text also alludes to colonial era topics and a Boston water supply note.
Henry C. Work of Hartford famed for Marching Through Georgia was memorialized in New York and Hartford circles. A granite pedestal with bronze bas reliefs would honor his memory, recognizing his wartime songs and popular ballads, with Work’s life tracing from Middletown to Hartford and beyond.
Miss Helen Gladstone daughter of former premier Rogeland now serves as vice principal at Newnham College. The piece notes her executive role, democratic student interactions, and ties to Mrs Henry Sidewick, sister of Arthur Balfour, plus the college’s founding by Miss Anne Jemima Clough and its American connections.
The article notes Vice President Adlai Stevenson and Chief Justice Melville Fuller vacationing at Sorrento Maine cottages. Secretary of War Daniel S. Lantont has stayed there for years, with Stevensons and their family renting seasonally. The cottage features a three story building with a broad piazza overlooking Bar Harbor and the bay.
The article describes a resort area in Naples, America, once part of Sullivan harbor, with a peninsular location and six miles of carriage drives. It highlights distant views of Dar Harbor and the Atlantic coast, the golf scene, and fashionable households, noting yachts and other seaside entertainments.
A forthcoming New York Clearing House structure at 77 13 Cedar Street will be a three story white marble building in Italian renaissance style. It features a corinthian order, a 20 foot attic, rusticated arches, and space for a bank on the ground floor with administration offices on the second floor and clearing rooms on the third.
The article surveys Korea as a target of China and Japan, noting its small size yet large population and the shift from vassal status to an independent state. It outlines royal corruption, the Min family influence, insurrections, and Japanese and Chinese interference, with Russia and the United States as external players. It describes Korea’s geography, economy, and society, including Seoul’s walled capital and widespread poverty, superstition, and limited natural resources.
The piece mocks earlier death rumors of Upham amid political intrigue in Wisconsin. It recounts a Confederate battlefield scene and a later claim of Upham’s survival, tying in Republican moves and public notices about appointments and investigations in New York and Illinois.
Children recount a curious apple-cutting prank using a thread loop to split the fruit without breaking the skin. The narrative shifts to tales of Gypsy the pony, schooldays, and a playful lesson from a teacher.
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