Oak Park neighbors share news from Austin suburb
Long column of social notes from Oak Park and Austin recounts visits and returns of Belleau Gill Randall Riggs Clapp Griffiths Van Duzer McCord Haney Hathaway Beach Beach families, trips to Lake Geneva Paw Paw Lake South Haven Buffalo expo, and other local movements. McClurg obituary notes former Oak Park resident and cracker magnate.
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Belleau
Toronto
Canada
Gill
Erie Street
My. Ami
E. J. Randall
North Lake
Wis
Hattie Riggs
Watseka
Austin
Misa
Mabel Angela Clapp
Wisconsin
Charles Griffiths
Bass Lake
Mich
J. A. van Duzer
BE. F. Hoopes
North Ping Avenue
Olive McCord
M. E. Haney
Dr. Hathaway
Atlanta, Ga
G. A. Kreis
John Preston
Ontario Street
Europe
Wm. Stewart
Washington Boulevard
Brampton
Ralph
Julia Gill
Lake Geneva
A. T. Benson
Paw Paw Lake
Mr. Macartney
Mar
South Haver
Margaret Boothroyd
Michigan City
Ind
Winifred Braman
Central Avenue
Cloisonne Glass Promises Superior German Craft
German designers unveil cloisonne glass resembling stained glass but claimed superior. The technique uses double brass wires with colored glass fills, producing a smooth, non bending pane with a lighter frame.
Attempted Burglary in Austin Neighborhood
Burglars targeted multiple homes on Waller avenue between Madison and Adama streets last Wednesday night from midnight to 1 am. Mrs. Boland’s 683 Waller avenue home lost clothing and jewelry worth about 100 dollars. Mrs. Higgie’s 559 Waller street startled the intruders with a police whistle. neighbors later searched with dogs and guns but found no suspects. Police suspect three assailants, two inside houses and one patrolling, with several other homes broken into but valuables left untouched.
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Austin
Waller Avenue
Madison
Adama Streets
P. Boland
Capt. Higgie
Waller Street
Odd Oak Park thefts and a new-born found in city notes
Oak Park police report theft of steam fitters and carpenters tools valued at 125 dollars from a Elmwood Avenue and Pleasant Street building last Monday night. A newborn body was found at Humphrey Avenue and Washington Boulevard about 7 pm Tuesday. undertaker Wenter handled the body with no identifying cloth. George Taylor Tom Collins and Frank Marshall, known Oak Park residents, are being held by Maywood police for recent burglaries there.
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Elmwood Avenue
Pleasant Street
Humphrey Avenue
Washington Boulevard
Oak Park
Wenter
George Taylor
Tom Collins
Frank Marshall
Maywood
Wedded Life in Sumatra
Sumatra marriage customs show rigid duties and property rights for husbands. Husbands must fund the wife's marriage portion and may not touch her dowry even after separation. Wives live apart from husbands, with sons with mother until age four and girls marrying early to a nearby house. A widow raises a flag at her door. as long as the flag remains untorn she stays unmarried, and the first rent signals a suitor may come.
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Sumatra
Australian Wife Mistaken for Matron Meets Royal Figures
Sydney laughs at a London hospital visit story where a politician's wife is mistaken for the matron by a dignified lady. Believing she served the Princess Christian, the wife introduces her husband to a royal figure, prompting a wry remark from a shipping gentleman about their royal encounter.
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Sydney
London
Christian
Cash Blank
Remains of a Mammoth Found in Siberia
Report from Siberia details a recent mammoth discovery to be sent to St. Petersburg. The specimen is unique with preserved hair skin and desh. undigested food remains found in its stomach.
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Siberia
St. Petersburg
Early drama roots traced in England and Japan
A London based note cites Okuni the priestess performing in Kyoto around 1675 and 1576 sees the Earl of Leicester’s servants open Blackfriars theater, marking early public theater developments.
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Jape
England
Japan
Okuni
Onamupi
Kioto
Earl of Leicester
Blackfriars
London
Business Directory Ad Attorn And Local Firms Listing
An index of local professionals and merchants with occupations and telephone contacts including lawyers bakers jewelers plumbers real estate firms restaurants undertakers and other trades. The entry lists Geo B Martin display ads Burgess Albert and many others with Oak Park Austin West and Oak addresses and phone numbers.
Jules Levy Ends Season With Gala Concert at Scoville Grounds
Jules Levy greeted by a large crowd for the final concert of the season at Scoville Grounds. The famed cornetist and the American band delivered a fitting climax to a successful series. Levy later recovered two medals lost during the event, one from the late U S Grant and another from King Alfonso XII of Spain, found by John Moran and returned to Levy.
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Jules Levy
Scoville Grounds
Levy
U. S. Grant
Alfonso XII
Spain
Railways to unite the globe spurred by Providence
In a Providence Address K EH Hale argues for vast railway networks from Quebec to Patagonia and the Baltic to the Pacific. He says interior communication must improve to ease crowded cities like New York and reduce conflicts, envisioning homes for migrants under Old Glory.
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New York
Pampas
South America
Quebec
Patagonia
Baltic Sea
Pacific Ocean
Cairo
Cape
South Africa
Providence
Nakama Club Prepares September October 1901 Program
The Nakama Club has prepared its program for September and October 1901. The opening features a party on September 19 led by Mrs. W. C. Coleman as chair, with assistance from Mrs. John Coleman and Mrs. R. H. Pierce.
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Nakama Club
W. C. Coleman
John Coleman
R. H. Pierce
Caring for the Teeth in Early Childcare
A Victorian era guidance piece urges good dental hygiene for children to prevent decay and ensure digestion. It stresses daily cleaning with a small stiff brush after meals, simple tooth powders, mouth rinsing, and careful use of teeth, warning decay should be treated before pain arises.
Silk Exports From Georgia To England 1760 76
Between 1760 and 1776 Georgia exported about 100000 pounds of silk to England. The Boston Transcript notes the season when careful dieting reduces illness compared with indulgence. It also mentions De Quincey writing an essay weekly, never hurrying to avoid revision. Twenty percent of Chicago jail inmates suffer from morphine, cocaine or other drug habits.
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Georgia
England
Chicago
Boston Transcript
de Quincey
Heron Nesting Site Described on New England Plantation
Three beron colonies lie in New England with one on a north Sebec lake plantation. A point of land extends into the pond where tall silver birches host at least 100 nests high in the tree tops. Trees reach over forty feet without limbs, matching known heron nesting behavior. Nest spans at least two feet across and is built from small sticks.
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New England
Sebec Lake
The Mango of Bombay in Indian Mango Fame
India yields the mango a global reputation as a tropical treasure. The fruit grows wild in jungles and thrives in gardens and groves, with the Bombay variety regarded as especially prized among Indian mangos.
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Bombay
India
Long Lives of Men of Contemplation and Merit
An investigator examined the age at death of eminent men and found that moral philosophers astronomers statesmen clergymen philanthropists and independent literary figures often enjoyed the longest lives despite minimal muscular activity.
Noted Scholars and Officials in Brief Personal Items
Professors and judges are highlighted with recent milestones and roles. Knox College physicist C B Thwyng is named head of physics at Syracuse University. Judge John J Jackson of West Virginia, aging 77, marks forty years on the bench. Alfred De Rothschild ages into art legacy, with private collections and trustee roles noted. A H Adams bequest to Amherst and Johns Hopkins appears, alongside a communal gift for the American Historical Association. Virchow’s 80th birthday in Berlin is announced with guest addresses from multiple bodies. He quips that Koch is not a pope and cautions against overreliance on one authority.
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C. B. Thwyng
Knox College
Galesburg
Ill
Eugene Haanel
Syracuse University
John J. Jackson
West Virginia
United States District Court
Alfred de Rothschild
England
National Gallery
Wallace
H. B. Adams
Johns Hopkins University
Amherst College
Amherst
American Historical Association
Rudolph Virchow
Berlin
Virchow
Koch
Rome
Negro Superstitions From Local Folklore
A list of African American folk beliefs and customs on luck, health, farming, and protection. Items include birds bringing bad luck, rabbit feet warding off disease, peppers needing anger to grow, gunpowder for fierce dogs, sassafras soap, do not carry a hoe through a house, devil dreams vs preacher troubles, a rooster crowing at door brings visitors, groundhog shadow predicting late spring, table fork spawns company, crawfish or turtle clinging to toes, peppers planted by red headed or temperamental person, jaybird on Friday signaling Satan, and avoiding burning lightning struck wood to protect home.
River Forest Local Notes and Obituary
River Forest community news reports a return from Lake Minnetonka, a new residence on Ashland avenue, and Henry Waller's typhoid illness from Charlevoix. Two men were caught stealing wood from Mr. Steel's woods. Rev. Marvin G. Hodge aged 79, a prominent Wisconsin Baptist pastor, died at his daughter's River Forest home Sunday evening August 25. funeral held in Janesville on Tuesday.
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Marvin G. Hodge
D. D
E. F. Welch
Park Avenue
River Forest
Wisconsin
Janesville
Milwaukee
Miss Clara Troost Weds Walter Dorstewitz at Home
Miss Clara Troost, eldest daughter of Henry Troost, was married Monday evening August 26 to Walter Dorstewitz at the Troost residence. The couple will reside in La Grange while Grace Bailey of Stevens Point, visiting Mrs Huffmann at 87 North East Street, has returned home last Monday.
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W. Ketcham
Clinton
Belle Skillen
Libbie
Matthew T. Long
Devils Lake
Lillie Arntz
the Enterprise
South Haven
Merrit Singer
Oak Park
J. W. Conley
Camp Collie
Lake Geneva
Wis
Jessie Ketcham
Kankakee
Hemingway
Walloon Lake
W. F. Barnara
Wisconsin Avenue
Scales
Los Angeles
Cal
LeRoy M. Harvey
Madison
Ada Newberry
Peru
Ind
W. H. Herrick
O. D. Allen
Lane
Denver
Barclay
Louisville
Johonnet
Skillen
Maple Avenue
North Grove
Ottawa Beach
Oak Park Club
West Side
Grace Bailey
Stevens Point
Fred Huffmann
North East Street
Clara Troost
Henry Troost
Walter Dorstewitz
la Grange
Recent Legal Decisions Highlight Milk Adulteration and Crossing Rulings
Iowa holds that adding non injurious substances to milk for preservation remains a valid police power exercise. Georgia approves street railway cross without condemnation or damages, citing prevailing authorities. Connecticut rules a corporation taking partnership debts cannot be bound in a creditor suit if not party to the contract. Chicago News.
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Ve. Schlenker
Iowa
Southern Reailroad Company
Atlanta R. & P. R. Co
Morgan Vs. Randolph-Clowes Co
Chicago News
Comparative Weights and Patents in Historical Notes
The note states black walnut weighs less than half a similar amount of ebony. The first patent, issued to Samuel Hopkins in 1790, covered pat. not pearl ashes. It mentions Shah Ashref of Persia being left handed and having a saber made for that trait. It notes graphite reserves in Siberia as superb for pencils.
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Samuel Hopkins
Shah Ashref
Persia
Siberia
Trans-Siberian Railway marks nine years of progress
The Trans-Siberian Railway has completed nine years of construction with 8,240 miles of track laid at an average of 360 miles per year. A steamship service now connects Europe with Vladivostok, central Siberia enabling the Europe to Asia link.
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Europe
Vladivostock
Siberia
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Cross Creek Lehigh Co
Belore Giacint
Delos, Hull & Co
AK Park
Creago
S. Sealevard Austin
Suburban News
J. J. McCarthy
Lillian
Jessie
Teturmea
Mackinac Island
Migges Caroline
Elizabeth Figgan
Biard Avenue
Buffalo
Victor Simpson
Belvidere
G. W. Lamson
North Waller Avenue
Fred Wells
F. H. Wells
A. T. Barnes
Lawrence, Mich
A. D. Minard
South
Minard
Michigan
D. W. Hutchinson
Gertrude
Buffaloronto
Scranton
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington
Alfred de Vries
Alma Street
Chicago Avenue
County Hospital
Marius Wohlbuter
North Humphrey Avenue
West Side Hospital
Hamiston
F. W. Jackson
South Grove Avenue
Aaron H. McClurg
Mr. McClurg
Pittsburg
McClurg Cracker Company
National Biscuit Company
Mencken Club
Knernard Commandery
Knights Mplor
Geo. B
Bai Schmitz
F Burgess
Albert
Henwall, Jao
Boots Ans
Rolf Rasmussen
John Price, Brambgeh, D
A. L
Osgood
Edwin
Oak Coal
Carter
Jas. W
Cicero Gas Co
C. I. Rheberg & Tel
Gibbs’ Grocery
Austin. Hardware
Hugh Gair
E. B. Moore & Co
Central
J. Dunfee & Co
Main
I. Ward
Roath & Robison
Wm. Wilken
Arthur J. Kendall
Austin Crystal Laundry Co
Graham & Morton
W. E. Annewalt
C. A. Denham & Co
Brown
Harry F
Madigan
M. J
Goelitz
H. G
Telephone
Carmichael’s. Tel
Andersen's. Burcky & Milan
Walter W. Mayne
Beron
Edwin T. Farrar
W. Lake St
Mrs. Boyne
Lake Minnetonka
Davenport
Ashland Avenue
Henry Waller
Charlevoix
Mr. Steel
Harlem
D. Brambach
Marion Street
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