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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1900
Page
8
Poem recalls Boer War stalwarts with a mother, daughter, father, and son dying together. It honors enduring heroes, praising their steadfast sacrifice and lineage, as old and new champions are linked by fame. An editorial voice from the New York Independent frames the timeless martial virtue.
Myra Kent longs for a family heirloom bracelet believed lost on a road near a Kent estate. Tom Bowen jokes about worthlessness while Rowen, a “sec ond Adonia,” vows to recover it to win her favor. He searches roadside ditches at dusk for days, chasing a legend of luck tied to the relic.
Rowen searches for a lost bauble, finds Myra Kent injured in a remote area, and confesses love. Myra awakens, forgives him, and their feelings flood back as she reveals she too loves him. He vows to never let her go and they share a tender kiss.
A priest recounts baptizing a baby named Hubert Gee Gee after parents and a relative gave both Christian and surname names. The incident arose when the baby’s family last name Gee was repeated as a middle name, creating a doubled surname in the baptismal record.
The infant baby pulled the Duke of Wellington's nose as he lay in his nurse's arms at Apsley House. The duke, amused, told Lord Derby he liked the novelty, recalling how rare such a moment is for a royal figure.
Cheap round trips offer depart August 7 and 21 from Chicago and St. Louis with connections from Omaha St. Joseph and Kansas City. Highlights include Salt Lake City temples canyons and Baltair Beach atop Great Salt Lake. Travel via Denver Rio Grande routes promises scenic scenery. Send two cents for a copy of Salt Lake City the City of the Saints.
Persuasive notice extols a Yellowstone trip via Northern Pacific to Clonabar and the Yellowstone National Park Transportation Co. It highlights Concord coaches for 5 to 7 passengers, four horses, 75 drivers, 700 horses, seating for 1100, and a $200000 investment. Emphasizes reliability and disciplined operations.
An advisory text extols the world wide reputation of Cascarets Candy Cathartic as meritorious and universal. It warns readers against substitutes sold by unscrupulous retailers seeking extra profit and urges buyers to beware of cascaret substitutes and counterfeit boxes marked C C C.
Nebraska farmers show broad optimism due to heavy rains that improve oats and wheat and signal a bumper corn yield. Despite northwest drought harming wheat, overall conditions are favorable with record prospects and many renters eye western lands for cheaper, productive farms.
The Fine Arts Journal highlights St. Mary's Academy in Notre Dame Indiana noting the 46th year opens September 4 1900. It praises the curriculum equaling Vassar and Bryn Mawr and lauds devoted teachers shaping students into virtuous intelligent women amidst superior classrooms labs and climate.
The article explains that "Graft" became the nickname for all senate pages starting with Grafton D. Henson. Early on he was the sole page in the chamber and called "Graft" so often that the name stuck. As more pages arrived, the label persisted for successors.
The article explains sunlight fails to reach beyond about 200 feet, leaving divers descending deeper in total darkness as if submerged in an endless night beneath the sea.
The Chicago & Western Illinois Railroad offers Home seekers excursion tickets on the first and third Tuesdays of July and August to multiple Southern states. One fare plus two dollars for round trip. Tickets limit fifteen days outbound with overnights in Home seeker territory and twenty one days return. A new wide vestibuled train runs daily from Chicago to Fort Worth Texas at 1 PM with Pullman sleeping cars and free reclining chairs. For details contact a railroad agent or Co L Stone G P and T A Chicago.
The painter M. Trouillebert, longtime supplier of Barbazon school works, has died. His canvases, including “Corots” and “Diazes,” were nearly indistinguishable from genuine pieces, making future availability scarce and valued in the market.
Patent medicine advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease as the sole cure for sweaty smarting burning and burning feet with bunions. Powder shaken into shoes marketed nationwide through druggists and shoe stores for 26 cents. Sample address provided in LeRoy New York.
The article notes that Europe and Asia connecting routes extend from Britain and Russia toward He rat and Kandahar with only 585 miles left to complete the rail bridge uniting Europe and India.
Visitors to the Farmers' National Congress in Colorado Springs can ride the Denver & Rio Grande Scenic Line at half fare for round trips to Colorado destinations. Tickets go on sale August 28 with some return options up to ten days or 380 days. Special excursions include Royal Gorge trips from August 26 and numerous circle tours across mountains and canyons.
Marquette Michigan is lauded as a charming summer resort reachable from Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway. The region offers healthful location scenery fine hotels and immunity from hay fever, promoting a healthy restful outing.
Stanford graduate Mr Searle reports a new petrel on Kauai and a new sea gull species. He plans to visit Guam to collect birds and fishes for the Bishop Museum in Honolulu.
An advertisement claims CASCARETS candy cathartic cures a wide range of ailments by regulating the bowels. It emphasizes natural, painless relief and easy movements, priced at 10 cents to start. The genuine product is in metal boxes stamped C. C. C. and warns against imitations.
Education in Mexico remains almost entirely under government control with very few private institutions of minor significance.
A speaker encourages starting with a modest performance to build toward owning a large, three-ring circus, suggesting ambition through gradual growth and perseverance.
Captain Brinkley, renowned authority on Japanese culture, suffered a heavy loss as his entire library, art works, and manuscripts from more than twenty years of collecting were destroyed by fire.
The census enumeration proved a windfall for fountain pen manufacturers as enumerators needed pens during the count. With the tally completed nine-tenths of the pens remain unused, leaving surplus stock.
About 6,500 people from Germany Poland and Switzerland left their native countries last month and settled in England, signaling a notable migration movement amid postwar shifts.
An advertisement claims Maple City Soap can restore discolored clothes and is sold by all grocers. It contrasts this with advice on consideration for others to avoid hurting feelings.
The J. & C. Maguire Medicine Company of St. Louis announces its continued success in supplying the Army and Navy. Established long ago, they boast fifty nine years with no failures and market Benne Plant products widely. They guarantee every item to perform as claimed and urge readers to seek their booklet and try their remedies for dysentery diarrhea or cholera morbus.
One line advertisement notes Allen’s Foot-Ease makes tight or new shoes fit better and relieves swollen, hot, sweating feet, ingrown nails, corns and bunions with trial package offered by mail. A second item states two automobile communication lines will open for traffic near Corunna Spain during the current year.
An advertisement extols Maple City Self Washing Soap as a top labor saver and urges buyers to try it. grocers carry it and substitutes are not needed. The copy notes a memorable slogan about noise and nose in a light homespun tone.
The Magna Mud and Lithia Water Cure at Indiana Mine ral Springs Indiana offers rest recreation and health for overworked professionals and rheumatism sufferers. It features picturesque drives graveled roads good access to outdoor activities and marvels at cures. Major H L Kramer oversees operations with postal inquiries yielding detailed information and a magazine on the resort.
Veteran artist Sir John Tenniel longtime Punch staffer and grand old man of Punch marks fifty years with over 2000 cartoons drawn. An exhibition of his original drawings is now held in London.
An old newspaper ad touts Hach package colors for Silk Wool and Cotton with price 75a. It promotes Pangsr s Harm Balsam and Hinps.Conn s corn cure at 15cts. It also features remarks on courtship and players using White s Yucatan during games and a note about flies staying out when the mouth is closed.
Testimonies from fifty thousand women praise Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for easing painful menstruation. The letters to Mrs Pinkham describe how severe period pain strains a woman’s vitality and claim relief through the remedy.
Evidence abounds that Mrs. Pinkham's advice and medicine have for many years helped women to be strong. No other advice is so consistently accurate, and no other medicine has such a record of cure.
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