16 Aug 1901
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1901
Page
1
Austin residents join extended lists of travelers heading to Michigan locations including Berrien Springs Paw Paw Lake and Lake View. Among those cited are Mrs Parsons Miss McDowell and Mr Holt with others visiting relatives and pursuing leisure travel during August.
Local residents plan trips to New York state Colorado Lake Channel Lake and the Great Lakes region. Local burglaries and a street accident are reported along with parade band concerts upcoming led by Weldon and American bands.
A quotation from a Scottish Reformer notes that true nobility lies in pardoning enemies rather than exacting revenge. It argues that focusing on what is past is futile since the present and future require wiser handling.
The German minister of war orders armored cars to carry two Maxim guns with nickel-steel armor. A series of automobile brakes with tables will enable officers to spread maps en route. Light vehicles or voiturettes will test cannon shot effects on firming grounds.
Mr and Mrs J B Pyott entertain theater goers at the Kenton while their son Horace returns from Wisconsin camp and unknowingly hides outside Mrs Ralston s room. A perplexed crowd lockers valuables and phones police as the tramp like visitor is questioned before quietly drifting away.
Rev William Rainey Bennett will occupy the pulpit at First Congregational Church in Austin on Sunday morning August 18 at 10 30. A Chicago Seminary and University of Chicago graduate he has worked with Graham Taylor at Chicago Commons and is known as a powerful lecturer and preacher with strong Christian energy.
A meeting at Avenue Hall Monday night urged delaying the division vote until the next town election in April since no fall general election will occur. About sixty attended, with a strong Berwyn, Clyde, and Morton Park presence. Southsiders favored separation from Oak Park, resolutions urged against a special election, and an organizing body formed with J. D. Andrews president and other officers named.
The Sec ond Congregational Church of Oak Park hosts a Sunday school picnic on Tuesday August 20 in a grove near Riverside on the Desplaines River. Trains depart from Oak Park Avenue East Avenue and Lombard Avenue stations at 8 30 am on the Randolph street line of the Lake Street Elevated. Children fare ten cents. A trolley party games and other features will be offered. All friends of the Sunday school and church are invited.
The Q B Class baseball squad travels to Merrick Park in Austin to face the Central YMCA team on Saturday August 17. QB Class has played five games without a loss while the YMCA has twelve games with only one defeat, promising a tight contest.
An American army officer famed for a years long routine survived on canned goods alone at a Western post. He opened a random can for each meal, ate only its contents, and remained active and alert while outdoors full time.
A partial index lists various local businesses and professionals with contact numbers. Entries include druggists, dyers, hardware, real estate, laundries, steamboat lines, and undertakers with names such as Austin Crystal Laundry Co and Graham & Morton, plus individual trades like jeweler and harness maker.
This passage notes that even elite Japanese women perform household duties. It describes how market visits are replaced by doorstep calls, how most women sew their own clothes, and how even the wealthy embroider garments. It highlights thrift and domestic skill in the upbringing of girls.
An anxious woman expresses uncertainty while a decisively magnanimous suitor proposes to proceed without references. The conversation reaches a pivot as she hints at consulting her father before a final reply in Indianapolis.
The Woman's Club of Austin prepared seven hundred buttons bearing Clean City League and W C initials to be given to children with pledge cards. Letters from across the country asked for pledge samples and delegates to the Clean City convention in Buffalo. Children are urged to write letters about their work and specimen letters will be read. this initiative begins the club's fall program.
Fox Lake Illinois August 9 1901 a hotel reception honored Mr and Mrs F W Schulz on their tenth anniversary tin wedding about seventy five friends attended. Several close friends spoke and Mr Schulz thanked guests for the surprise. The evening included singing dancing and a piano solo lasting until about 2 am.
J D Ambrose of Oak Park has purchased a thrifty Cissna Park paper. He states independent politics, maintaining the paper’s policy, and aims to deliver reliable news while elevating community morals for readers of all ages.
Mr. H J Hankermeyer of 430 North Park Avenue II was kicked by a horse while adjusting the reins from a wagon Tuesday, Aug 13. His right leg was broken in two places and badly cut. Dr Maxson stopped the bleeding and he was brought home by ambulance. He had both legs broken fifteen years ago. Hankermeyer was Cicero's first policeman and later a Cook County constable.
The Hugh Gair hardware store in Oak Park was burglarized Sunday night. About $75 worth of revolvers, shears, knives, forks, and small hardware items were stolen after intruders pried up the west window and carried away goods.
Eighteen year old Cora Bates, colored, has disappeared from Mrs. Bell's home at 153 Madison Street Harlem since Tuesday night. She was last seen in Oak Park and police are seeking her whereabouts.
The Atchison Globe laments the common abuse of mules and notes the contrast with families facing dangerous buggy escapes. It argues mules work hard on light feed yet receive only mistreatment, a standing joke in contemporary culture.
The world’s tiniest foal, weighing 24 pounds and standing 22 inches, is owned by blacksmith G. H. Hackstead near Ludlow Kentucky. Foaled near Fountain Ferry Park, the colt grew slowly, with no height gain in two months, and its dam was a mustang pony while the sire was a large horse. It is healthy, friendly, well behaved, and shown to attract attention during exhibitions.
A warned tale of a Carlisle educated Indian girl who loves a missionary, a forbidden union, a later suicide, and the minister killed by lightning at the girl's grave. The report also recalls a ball of fire rolling into a pig shed, collapsing the shed and killing the pigs.
The Ghent court of appeals sanctioned hypnotism to elucidate deafness claimed by M. Borreman in the Borreman trial. Four defendants were fined and one jailed in earlier proceedings after a June 1899 Alost celebration attack. Three experts including a Ghent University professor endorsed hypnosis for the case.
Phoenix Arizona once sage brush desert has grown into a thriving Salt River valley city with 25 000 residents and an assessed property value of 10 000 000 Seed from Arizona reserves spurred development turning the desert into a fertile valley with ranches and towns.
A French subaltern reports annual living costs in Hagland France and Germany. He lists expenses to live in the army as ice 400 dollars in Germany 100 dollars in England 1200 dollars.
Miss M Murray recovers from typhoid fever. A daughter born to Mr and Mrs Daniel Clark. Mr Charles Martin of Keystone Ave seeks health in Phoenix. Mrs Charles Porter returns from Paw Paw Lake. Austins vs River Forests baseball slated for Oak and Monroe. Wisconsin Central main line to resume Sept 1. Depot robbed of coins and tickets. No Sunday church service due to repairs. Presbyterian Ladies plan lawn fete at Townsends and Sackleys on Lathrop Ave. Mrs Ed Scharenberg and Mrs Magnus Flaws visiting near Marquette Mich for four weeks.
Capt William Miller was poisoned by ivy. Water works system damaged this week. About 500 attended the Maenerchoir picnic last week. Philip Roth fined ten dollars and costs for assault with a pick ax handle. Albert Roos and wife plan an outing to Fond du Lac Wisconsin next week. H A Cottons horse Bonesetter broke a leg and was shot. Stolte and Judge Myrat control slot machines in this territory. Stolte secretary of the K P and faced a $10,000 bond. President Klimmer resigned his chair to Trustee Gold and a treasurer was appointed Fred Lang. Bond $75,000 signed by Oak Park State Bank and Ferdinand Haas.
The National Bureau of Standards offered two laboratory assistant positions paying 1200 and 1400 dollars. An examination scheduled for a recent day had no applicants. The civil service commission cannot explain the total lack of interest from young scientists.
Mrs D S Brown of near Woodside Rowan county awoke to find a king snake had slithered into a dough pan left by the fire overnight. She screamed in fright as the intruder revealed itself and Mr Brown killed the snake on hearing her cries.
The article notes the world reached 998,040,000 minutes since year 1 AD as the century began and states the one billionth minute will occur at 10 40 am on April 30 1902 or at end of April 1903 if counted differently.
A seven story building in Chicago was raised with jacks. The operation involved lifting the structure by over twenty one and a half feet, causing a pane of glass to crack and potential wall damage. No injuries reported.
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