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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1900
Page
2
The Vindicator notes buckwheat yields lag behind population growth, while a record balloon capable of lifting six tons will ascend from Berlin for extended meteorological observations. It will carry provisions for weeks and two beds.
In a single week six arrests were made in Toledo for docking horses tails. Hearings revealed the cruelty of the practice and that owners are barred from watching. Advocates urge compulsory attendance at such scenes to hasten the end of the barbarous custom.
In Biddeford Maine a church collection for foreign missions included a pair of Chinese coins and two brass beer checks as offerings. The scene showed thoughtful Christians noticing the difficulty of exchanging American money for local currency.
A Lubec Maine fante citizen fell into shoal water while retrieving a hammer from a schooner ladder. He wedged between ladder rungs as the tide rose and was rescued three hours later just inches from drowning.
Excavations at Mantoche reveal a Gallo Roman town villa with a mosaic hall eight by fifteen meters and frescoed walls. Passages lead to small sleeping cubicles. two more villa sections await uncovering, with evidence of occupation before the Gallo-Roman era.
Isaac Martin of Knox County Indiana uncovered two silver bricks buried three feet deep near a large sycamore while hunting on his farm. A Vincennes jeweler confirmed the metal as silver with a lead alloy, weighing 13 pounds and 18 pounds 9 ounces. The smaller brick bears the initials J B. The find sparks excitement and speculation of more buried treasure nearby.
The article notes American shoes achive global renown for beauty comfort and low cost with over three million dollars in exports last year. It mentions German French Austrian and English makers imitating the American style and selling under that name. A Paris and Berlin pair cite Marie Antoinette cues about French footwear to question royal pretensions.
The article discusses the Chinese superstition of fangshui favoring burial sites and how engineers ignoring these beliefs are cited as a cause of China’s turmoil, though atrocities remain unexcused. It also mentions a Dean of Ely remark misattributed to American women and a defense that courage is a trait of American girls.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat story recalls a predatory laundryman who stole a lodger's shirts in a Bohemian boarding house. The rogue, described as a mission Sunday school Chinaman, coerces quick laundry by singing and claims he will fetch clothes for every resident, prompting the lodger to install a Yale lock.
The article reports Germans hunted pygmies in the Central African forest to exhibit them at the Paris Exposition. Ugandan authorities arrested the Germans and freed seventeen pygmies. It notes no anthropological exhibit will proceed and condemns the trade in pygmies for show.
A Philadelphia Record report explains that banks regularly wash paper currency. Clerks scrub, rinse, and wring money before drying it, claiming washed notes look nearly new after about a hundred notes monthly.
A critic urges balanced verisimilitude for drama noting artful surprises can backfire The author defends his craft and departs with a sharp quip about people with small souls and trivial natures restraining genius to common sense.
Esquiman children in Alaska find food in the Arctic summer as ground covers with a sour pungent berry called porwong ripens soon after snow melts. Indians cease work to hunt the berries and eat large quantities, while the fruit resembles a small huckleberry.
Two English soldiers carry a pale wounded girl found in a kopje shelter after a tense night. As they hurry toward camp, Adair Rothes recognizes her and asks to take charge, claiming she is alive and must be cared for.
In a wartime tale Bluebell survives a veldt crisis and a Boer attack. Dr. Adair Rothes reveals she stands to inherit Tinlaverstock through a long-lost cousin. They marry despite danger and the need to flee to safety, trusting in God and each other.
Adair Rothes carries Bluebell to a farmhouse near Newcastle where farmer Dalziel sends his spider for Miss Elizabeth. Bluebell lies failing in a white bed as delirious fever rises, she cries for water and endures burning thirst while Rothes watches helplessly.
A monthly issue argues that women bear responsibility for men’s faults by not demanding higher standards. It contends societal faults grow from women’s conduct and calls out unequal treatment of working women versus those with wealth. It asserts men rarely show active cruelty, but lack of kindness is worse.
A young lawyer recalling youth writes about a classmate who forged a note to excuse Sam from hockey. The teacher, trusting the seal, administers a whipping to Sam, who learns not to play hockey, while the mother is unknowingly asked to oblige.
A visitor remarks on a boy named Bobby who earns ten cents weekly for coming to the table with clean hands and face. Bobby explains he does a large amount of work to deserve the small wage.
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