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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1895
Page
8
Clara weighs her sister Ida and Harold Denver as he probes for Ida’s hand. Harold reveals his love and vows a pure home life away from city temptations. Clara senses the engagement forming and shares in the joyous plan as Ida watches, delighted and surprised.
Miss Ida Walker receives a curious note from next door inviting a tandem ride with Charles Westmacott. They tour suburban roads toward Forest Hill, sharing playful banter and hints of future ranching in Texas as he asks if she would join him there if it suits her.
Ida and Charles Westmacott drift from awkward plans to a quiet, hopeful pledge as he asks for a life together. He urges a Texas move with promises of family warmth, piano, Browning, and visits from Denver and his wife, while Ida hesitates yet keeps his hand.
A Dublin Land League emissary travels to a district to arrange a meeting but, after meeting a friend in a pub, fabricates a speech and has it published as if delivered. He is arrested and sentenced to four months in jail for a speech that was never delivered and a meeting never held.
An unfeeling man in Newark carried a large paper balloon with a kitten attached by a pendant bar. He lit a gasoline lamp to lift the balloon as a crowd looked on. The kitten clung to the bar while the balloon rose and drifted away before the crowd mobbed the aggressor.
Elias Totman of Phippsburg hauled up a 35 pound lobster off Bald Head Small Point more than four decades ago Its 13 inch long claws and 9 inch breadth stunned him The lobster was boiled in a wash boiler as the family kettle was too small Six years ago A Y Johnson of Portland acquired one claw from the Tor man family and recently passed it to Henry Sargent of this city The Portland Press notes the tale
Three enormous volumes bound in black and red seals were fitted with cuttings from the entire American press about the illness and death of the White Ezra.
Henry Maier of 271 Orange Street Newark recounts his recovery using Dr. Williams Pink Pills after years of headaches and nervousness. He credits the medicine with restoring health and steady hands, urging readers to obtain the pills from local druggists or by mail from Schenectady.
Tilenri Rochefort opens his memoirs with vivid memories of grandparents. Grandmother witnessed Marie Antoinette at the Place de la Concorde and described the queen as stunned and limp needing help to the scaffold. Father saw Napoleon’s troops swear to the Acte Additionel on June 1 1815. The emperor wore a white satin troubador costume with a crimson mantle, appearing ridiculous with a fat body perched on thin legs and a greenish face.
Burlington Route offers personally conducted trips to California departing Chicago every Wednesday. Through cars to California with carpets upholstered seating bedding toilet rooms and full amenities. Route passes Denver and Salt Lake. For pamphet write to T A Grady Excursion Manager 211 Clark St Chicago.
The Northwestern line now offers a Chicago to California journey of three days with through palace drawing room sleeping cars to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Dining cars provide all meals en route and tourist sleeper berths cost $6 from Chicago to the Pacific coast. Through trains depart Chicago at 6:00 pm and 10:30 pm daily after East and South connections. For details contact ticket agents or W. B. Kniskern in Chicago.
The Big Four route with Chesapeake & Ohio offers round trip tickets from the northwest to Virginia and North and South Carolina for one fare plus two dollars. Jan 14 and 28. Details and free pamphlet available from U L Truitt N W P A 234 Clark St Chicago.
A decorative centerpiece is described using a hollowed ice bowl filled with loosely piled cracked ice. Smilax pieces are fastened in the interstices to trail over and cover the ice square, creating glittering ice with delicate green tracery.
On January 7 1896 the Big Four railway will sell first class limited tickets from Chicago to points in North and South Carolina at very low rates. For details contact U S.
On January 14th and 28th round trip tickets will be sold to points in Arkansas and Texas at half rate. Good to return until February 18th. Stop overs allowed. For information address Bissel Wilson, Dist Pass Agt, 113 Adams St., Chicago.
The Nile stands out among poetic rivers for its distance toward the source. This arises from its desert traversal under a semitropical sun and because about one third of its volume below the first cataract is diverted for irrigation and domestic use.
A promotional note for The Pilgrim offering original sketches prose poetry and illustrations by diverse writers. Mailed free to purchasers upon receipt of six cents postage stamps. Correspondence addressed to Geo H Heafford publisher at 415 Old Colony Building Chicago.
A Boston society uproar centers on Mrs. Higginson and student Smith fleeing together. Higginson, a prominent banker and philanthropist, sends a $166000 money order to Genoa, displaying magnanimity while the couple seeks new fortunes after their separation.
An ancient oak plank vessel four feet underground was found on the Mississippi shore near Wisconsin? Wi chona Minn. The craft is linked to N. Perrot, a French explorer who built a 17th century fort trading post whose ruins lie nearby.
Wee Will Gardner of Leeds village is jailed after a quarrel with his brother in law Charles Fuller last week. Gardner stabbed Fuller twice in the breast, injuries likely fatal.
The Monon Route showcases a new fast train from Chicago to Jacksonville running about 35 hours with Pullman all sleeping cars and day coaches. Depart Chicago 8 32 p m daily, arrive Jacksonville 8 20 am on the second day, offering connections across Central and Southern Florida. Frank J Reed, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, and H Simsions, Northwest Passenger Agent, Minneapolis, provide time tables and pamphlets.
The Girls' School of Agriculture trains students in plowing harrowing cooking canning smoking pickling and dairying along with flower and fruit gardening poultry raising stock breeding sewing darning leather repair entomology household economics and domestic and agricultural chemistry.
One hundred dollar reward offered for an incurable catarrh case by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Endorsements from Walding Kinnan & Marvin, druggists of Toledo, claiming F. J. Cheney honorable and able to meet obligations. Claims internal medicine acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials free. Price ten? dollars per bottle. Hall's Family Pills advertised.
A Sunday school procession with over 60 000 children, all children of Hindoo or Moslem parents, marched in Lucknow. India runs eight Christian colleges 26 000 schools and 3 000 000 pupils.
A North Turon family and relatives nearly wrecked by tobacco use report rapid improvement after starting No-To-Bac. Four men of different ages claim not only cessation but renewed health, with hundreds of users inspired to try the remedy.
The rich Russian nobleman Prince Whisker reputedly divides his immense estate among tenants, granting each a little farm while reserving one for himself. He cultivates it personally and spends all leisure time teaching the peasants.
An advertisement touts the Gale Cure as an absolute cure for opium morphine and cigarette habits. It urges readers to consider the treatment for addicted friends or relatives and claims it does not function as a remedy but as a cure.
Theodore Roosevelt recalls starting his temperance drive in New York City with initial encouragement from a group of Methodist ministers and a Catholic temperance society.
A brief prosperity pitch cites 15 years farming and hustling with a cousin earning 8300 last year plating tableware and jewelry. Gray Co plating works dept offers complete materials formulas and instructions for agents with free training and a ten year guarantee.
English statesmen push a bicycle tax modeled on French and Belgian practices. They claim a levy of 2 per year would raise about 2,500,000 dollars annually for the English treasury.
A Modern Mother notes Syrup of Figs provides gentle laxative relief for children with better acceptance and effects than other remedies. She cites the California Liquid Syrup Company as the maker. The piece adds a note that Paris hosts over seventy fencing halls each led by a well known fencing master.
The text compiles a string of 19th century ads and notices. It mentions fruit trees sales, home remedies, teasers for pain relief and tonics, dental plasters, corns cures, and saline quack cures. It also notes a romance-like divorce claim and a tale of a supposed embezzling official in Germany and Tunisia.
The text urges stopping whip use on an exhausted horse and feeding it instead. It argues food restores force, improves tissues, and supports muscular, digestive, and nervous systems, cautioning against weakening the body further through whipping.
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