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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1897
Page
2
The notice outlines that advertisements in the Vin DICATOR command must be respectful and artistically placed, allowing readers to express wants for a small fee. It emphasizes proper placement and attention-grabbing display within the INDICATOR system.
The piece surveys legislative activity in Ontario and notes on a sensational murder case. It praises a strong newspaper as vital to community prosperity while commenting on Cuban policy, a New York marriage, and upcoming memorial services. It laments franchise transparency, questions Chicago trials length, and highlights rising women’s social work and church growth in Austin. It ends with a railway transit suggestion for Park Avenue.
Reports note Postmaster Gordon pressing mail facilities in Washington and Cicero debating city government. Oak Park pushes charity work. Cicero Power Co. hearing looms as streetcar tracks face paving scrutiny. Winter weather arrives with snow and ice. local crime trials extend lengthy jury selection.
A serialized meditation on juries and justice compares trial by ordeal to modern juries, laments Franklin’s grave neglect, notes postal advertising limits, and critiques urban consolidation. It discusses damages for injuries, rising city districts near Lake Street, business dependence on newspapers, and varied views of papal and sultan leadership.
The piece discusses Cicero town board battles with railroad firms led by Mr Yerkes over elevated transit and 5 cent fare. It notes legal suits by Henry M Weed and Bettie Weed for damages from a Proviso Railway car crash. It laments cow thefts, church bazaars, and suburban life amid civic politics and possible speed limits for trains.
Wisconsin Telephone Company offers free service at Centralia Wisconsin to about twenty five residents to compete with the home company. The Oak Park water works link to the Austin exchange. Master nurse Martha Biard reports many calls. The Chicago Cosmopolitan franchise was bought by the Pis trust and Cicero and Hyde Park may target suburban service.
An American Missionary piece recounts a Sunday grove talk by a Tennessee mountains preacher. A group of young men debate Sabbath shooting and fairness as the preacher uses a tale of seven horses to test their generosity and restraint. The tale ends with relief that no gun was used.
A new lighting method is being tried in the Jaon Library at Columbia University. A large hollow Rodhe seven feet in diameter hangs centered in the great hall, painted dull white. It is opaque and designed to diffuse light by reflection rather than transmission.
Town announces eight percent rebate on Special No. 241 Austin avenue improvement from Ogden street to Twenty second street. Property owners with tax receipts should present them to Town Clerk JL R Brent for rebate. Austin WL November 16 1897.
An advertisement touts a salve named Bucky Escanche LE claimed to cure bruises sores rheum fever sores chapped hands chilblains corns and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee. Sold at Lovell's drug store Oak Park and Traili's Drug Store Sustin prints.
Advertisement touts a tonic called Litters or related remedy as peculiarly adapted to female ailments. It claims to restore appetite and energy, relieve headaches, faintness, nervous sleeplessness, and melancholy, and to improve strength and tone of female organs. Sold at Oak Fork and Novell's Drug Store in Austin.
Honest applicants sought to travel for a responsible established house. Monthly sixty five dollars plus expenses. Steady position with reference. Return self addressed stamped envelope to The Dominion Company Chicago.
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