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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1899
Page
4
A corrected compilation of Chicago telephone entries for Austin, listing numerous names and numbers across businesses and residents. The long roster includes firms such as Austin State Bank, Austin Fire Department, Cicero Railway connections, and many individuals alphabetically organized with their extension codes.
An advertisement proclaims Dr Kings New Life Pills boost health and vigor by improving stomach liver kidneys and bowels. It claims success stems from vigor and health and cites availability for 26 cents at Traill Cooling and Chas P Millers drug stores.
The article notes that crocodiles swallow pebbles to grind food and that natives claim age can be guessed by stones in the stomach. It cites a twelve foot crocodile with fifteen stones and states younger specimens typically carry four to eight stones.
Warm whalebone to cut it easily by softening it over a lamp or near a fire before attempting the cut.
The estimate projects corn at 2,121,600,000 bushels, oats at 775,680,009 bushels, and wheat at 560,140,000 bushels, reflecting production expectations for the year.
A marine Tupuseiel in New Guinea sits on piles above the sea to deter headhunters. A nameless Lake Huron town hosts 500 huts that move onto the ice in winter to fish, then vanish. Athos in Macedonia, called The Mountain of the Monks, bans women and domestic animals, save for male monks and birds, amid monasteries and bustling trade.
A list of maxims on self reliance thrift and temper. It urges doing tasks today avoiding delays and not incurring debt. It cautions against unnecessary expenses and emphasizes self control and measured responses to anger.
A London doctor explains red headed individuals resist baldness because each red hair is thicker than five fair or three brown hairs. He notes 30,000 red hairs yield a well thatched scalp, while the same number of fair hairs leave balding. It allegedly takes 160,000 fair and 105,000 brown hairs to cover an ordinary head.
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