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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1901
Page
2
A lyrical Christmas scene depicts two white phantoms at the stair, angels or fairies bringing good will as children awaken to a sunlit home. The verse celebrates mistletoe holly and the first day of joy with a tender family greeting.
On Christmas Eve Alice accepts Dent Dexter’s old proposal but John Maxwell returns after two years of strife to claim her. A confrontation reveals Dent’s sacrifice proves nobler than revenge as Maxwell forgives and blesses their new family, naming their son after Dent.
The article notes Dickens's Christmas Carol ranks highly among his works. It credits a sudden idea during a Manchester visit in October 1843 and states the story was completed by late November. It describes Dickens's intense process writing between chapters of Martin Chuzzlewit and his emotional reactions to the finished volume.
Provident housewives prepare Christmas plum pudding with a long aging process. The recipe uses suet flour raisins currants sugar bread crumbs lemon zest candied orange peel and spices plus six eggs and brandy. Mix dry ingredients add eggs and brandy form in a cloth and boil five hours then rest and serve with optional brandy flame.
The piece notes that many travelers on Christmas day are away from home by necessity and long to join loved ones. It contrasts those with no home or relatives to those with options, concluding that such wanderers are comparatively few in number.
The excerpt speaks of turning a page in life’s Book of Time toward a new future. Past pages are sealed in eternity with no erasures possible while white leaves of Futurity lie ahead ready to be written.
Report describes experiments linking a Morse duplex system and Baudot apparatus to send twenty four simultaneous messages over one line. Demonstrations show first newspaper page transmission via tuned tuning forks and induction, plus notes on Japan’s modern state under Marquis Ito and imperial integrity in public service.
A new telegraph system by Prof Mercadier allows Paris to Bordeaux transmission in an hour on a single circuit, using twelve electrodiapasons and a Baudot four key board to send up to 1300 twenty word telegrams hourly, with calm Parisians noting its novelty.
British sanitary inspectors lag behind the United States in hygienic rules says a report on wallpaper layering. Old paste and smoke decay release a harmful gas, and hidden layers may shelter contagious diseases, explaining mysterious outbreaks and the need for disinfection.
The X I T in the Pan Handle is the largest ranch in Texas spanning nearly 3,000,000 acres across seven sections. More than 100,000 cattle graze the land while a 210 mile by 25 mile pasture fence forms a 6,000 square mile maze. Telephones link headquarters to foremen and the operation runs with industrial discipline. Land parcels have sold over time with values rising from 0.50 to four times that amount.
Chicago astronomer Miss Dorothea Klumpke, long assisting at the Paris observatory, prepares to return to the United States. She will take charge of astral photography at Stanford University, California, ending a fifteen year Paris tenure and leaving many friends.
Miss Mabel Northorp of Sterling Kansas wins popular vote as handsomest woman in the state and will represent Kansas in a beauty contest at the St. Louis World's Fair. Friends expect her to capture the honor as the most beautiful woman in the Louisiana Purchase area.
Experts say U S produced tea rivals imported varieties in flavor and aroma. Dr Charles A Shepard of Summerville D C led government tea work, cultivating about 4500 pounds of high grade tea. He developed a green tea machine and placed it for public use with no royalty due, aiding the agriculture department.
Ho ward Johnson of Ishpeming Michigan recovered the largest nugget in Alaska while working on Discovery Anvil creek four miles from Nome on Pioneer Mining Company claim. The 97 ounce lump valued at 1552 dollars was found early Sept 14 on the night shift while Johnson, alone, was placing a post under a sluice box.
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