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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1901
Page
3
The Sewing Girls Union in Chicago issues a wage scale and rules for domestics. Rules cover work start times, daily routines, two hours daily rest, weekly evenings off, limits on host family opposition to club life, and allowances for visits with own refreshments.
Historian Maclay angrily rejects charges of plagiarism from the Edinburgh Review. A critical comparison of passages shows numerous textual differences, including treatment of names, abbreviations, and numbering, suggesting original construction of his history per New York Journal.
Ex congressman John Roy Lynch has been appointed by President McKinley as captain and assistant paymaster in the regular army, making him the first colored man commissioned for staff duty. Lynch previously served in high public offices and as a major and paymaster in the Spanish-American War volunteering in Santiago.
Mrs. Dollie Romans Bradley of Denison is hailed as the handsomest woman and a leading worker for woman suffrage. Her tireless efforts stem from a deathbed vow to complete her mother’s plan for securing the ballot. Bradley, also a gifted vocalist, has labored indefatigably in the cause.
The New York Sun reports a grave downturn in Anglican livings with over 7000 benefices paying less than 750 a year and many far lower. Wives face drudgery, meals shrink to alternate days, and children receive minimal schooling as clergy incomes fail. Declining corn prices and costly rectories worsen misery while church representation limits reform.
Col John S Mosby, famed Confederate guerrilla leader, is appointed special agent of the General Land Office with western headquarters. A Virginian by birth, he studied law during a Virginia College fight and later organized irregular cavalry. He harassed Union forces, reported to Gen Stuart and then Gen Lee, and after the war resumed law practice before serving as consul to Hong Kong.
The article recounts Philipps or “Corn King” Phillips admitting his commission house grew faster than its capacity. He describes it as a cage of too much business and reflects on a Minneapolis speech proposing a vast, sustained corn market with a 50 cents per bushel floor. He questions whether his idea of a bank and giant elevators could be managed and warns that easy money may not endure.
Florence Morse Kingsley recounts a canary family in Ladies' Home Journal. The oldest baby learns to flutter and crack seeds, then is tutored by Wee Willie Winkle the singing father. The nestling trains through wetting, perching, and rich trills, blending new gurgles into a longer song.
Nat Sausexes reports vegetarians at the Federal Union annual congress in Memorial Hall London display肉less fare at stalls including meatlike cutlets and rissoles. Exquisitely named Nut foods and desiccated preparations promise bone brain and muscle without meat, aiming to convert unbelievers at the hall.
The Vendome column in Paris has a long history from Napoleon 1806 construction to later destructions and restorations. The top statue of Napoleon symbolized shifting regimes from 1814 royalist actions to plans for Henry IV replacement, with material salvaged from battles and transformations across upheaval.
The article recalls the Vendome Column’s destruction and partial restoration, noting the Little Corporal statue is a substitute, and that the relic will be cared for by the Commission for the Preservation of Historic Relics. It reflects on Napoleon’s legacy and republican honor for his impact on European history. The Pope’s stance on women’s clothing is also briefly mentioned.
A historical column tale recounts Napoleon I and III changes to the Vendome Column in Paris, its destruction during the Commune, and the crowd’s reaction. It notes a hotel proprietor’s bribe attempt to halt the demolition and details ropes and scaffolding used as the column toppled.
The article explains potash soaps versus soda soaps and how soft soaps contain high water. It describes saponification, salting out, curd soap with excess alkali, and the fitting process to remove impurities. It covers toilet soaps, stock soap slicing, and the use of alcohol glycerine for transparency. Cane sugar clarifies but harms the skin.
Thirty flower girls disrupted the Austrian Reichsrat to oppose measures targeting street flower hawking. They argue Vienna’s flower trade rivals Paris with roses sold on streets at one sixth shop prices.大量 flowers arrive from Nice to undercut florists and the delay to autumn postpones action, aiding longtime family sellers.
A collection of quotable lines on patience courage speech and reason from Moliere Sophocles Alger Emerson Penn Lavater Poor Richard Epictetus Tennyson Sydney Smith and Mrs Stowe. The notes reflect on bearing forbearing honesty courtesy and the value of timely truth.
Discussion contrasts Western waste disposal costs with English furnace burning that yields fuel and building materials. A Sultan of Morocco will receive a quarter plate camera entirely in eighteen karat gold with hallmarked screws. The device, in a white morocco case, may cost about 1500 dollars.
A London cabman jokes about underpayment as a lady attempts to top up a fare with a shilling. He pockets the coin and smiles, remarking there was the pleasure of driving her London Chronicle.
Simon B. Needham, claiming to be a Hebrew prophet and son of Judah, preaches on a Macon street corner attracting both black and white listeners. He cites a mixed lineage, speaks fluently with Bible verses, and says his mission is to establish universal brotherhood in his seventy fourth year of a second life, with ties to Kansas City and Windsor.
Chicago Tribune notes President Kruger warns Americans not to aid the British by sending mules and horses, while claiming sympathy should not halt relief for Boer women and children. It argues many livestock sellers sympathize with the Boers but still sold animals, and urges continued humanitarian giving despite his message.
Henryk Sienkiewicz, famed author of Qua Vadis, is preparing a new novel likely to rival his past works. The writer, born in 1848, spends time at Ragaty in Switzerland where translator Curtin notes the crowded hotel offers freedom and solitude ideal for writing.
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