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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1899
Page
2
A 1899 Chicago Vindicator item lists addresses for circulation and a call to report missed deliveries. It notes a New Year greeting, town board and school openings in Austin and Oak Park, Cicero tax assessment, and local transport improvements. It includes remarks on the Goss Printing Co. war impact, Cook county finances, and etiquette guidance for American girls in Paris.
In India two sportsmen chasing a wounded tiger became separated. The beast charged. a rifle fired twice, injuring the tiger as it closed in. One hunter braced the gun sideways and held the tiger by the barrel until his companion arrived to finish the beast.
The passage argues that southern lands foster distinct traits in people through climate and youth energy. It notes evolving speech and thought patterns diverging from old world norms while sometimes aligning with British standards in certain respects.
For years scientists have sought to measure stellar heat. Prof. Nichols at Yerkes used a Crookes radiometer like apparatus to show Vega emits heat comparable to a candle six miles away, while Arcturus emits about twice that amount.
In southern Spanish cities knife duels are common among the lower classes. Fighters attract spectators with whistles, tie their left legs together, and then attack with long knives. A recent Alicante duel left one fighter with fourteen wounds and the other with seventeen.
An old newspaper hand recalls a Nebraska photograph showing a cigar shaped machine perched in an oak tree, a trick later revealed by a pasted model. The incident showed how photography could mislead readers, even when experts vouched for authenticity.
A pamphlet from Jamaica's colonial botanical service hid a live scorpion that crawled into a mail sack in Kingston. It was flattened under a pile of mail, prompting an inquest led by C. G. Lloyd who warns of insect transmission via mail matter and the danger to handlers.
A Manila correspondent reports Filipinos bury their dead in masonry vaults rather than underground. In Paco cemetery, circular layered vaults are rented by the church. when rents lapse, corpses are exhumed and bones thrown into a gruesome heap.
The article reports ten days of wireless telegraphy experiments between Chamonix and the Vallot Observatory on Mont Blanc. The straight distance was 7.51 miles with a two mile height difference. Communication worked only within 0.08 inches of oscillator sphere separation, and clouds or liquid water did not stop signals while atmospheric electricity sometimes affected the apparatus.
A judge’s exchange reveals questions about whether Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Brown’s son graduated as an allopath or a homeopath. The dialogue shows family members debating his medical direction and current living situation.
A string of moral quips on fortune, hospitality, class, courtship, duty, and virtue. It contrasts rich success with wretched beggary, condemns fortune hunting, praises proper conduct, and notes how flattery, finery, and laughter shape character in social life.
A collection of practical tips and curiosities covers food handling, child feeding laws, plumbing, fakir goods, imperial expenditures, fruit processing, flour measures, table decor, lamp maintenance, newspaper use, meal frequency, flour milling scale, glass cleaning, and soap saving with pipe clay. Includes advice on taste, cleanliness, and efficiency.
Adolph L. Millett of Manchester N H reports his wife used Chamberlain Pain Balm for a long standing shoulder pain. After one bottle her shoulder improved markedly despite prior failed medicines and doctors. For sale by Traill Cooling Druggists.
A miscellany notes Delaware punishing men but not women since 1855, reindeer farming in Norway feeding southern markets, lamp manufacture and chimney science, West Point stats on graduates and alive living, casual quotes from Maude and Edith, nettle pain causes, soap bubbles, mud in the house, and a brisk jab at a wife’s bonnet routine and a mustard platter claim.
H. F. Meyers will teach mandolin guitar and banjo at the Oaks Club House every Monday from 2 to 8 o'clock. He invites those seeking instruction on any instrument to call on members or send a postal card with preferred time and place. Location is Athenaeum Building 26 East Van Buren street room 418.
An old advertisement touts Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as a cure for eruptions sores boils felons corns warts cuts burns and more. It claims relief from pains and aches and price is 25 cents per box with a guaranteed cure available at Trail & Cooling and Chas P Miller druggists.
A notice advertises free scholarship opportunities at Draughon’s Practical Business Colleges in Nashville St Louis Little Rock Fort Worth Galveston Shreveport or Savannah with details via Illustrated Youth and Age Nashville Tenn. It also notes pearls as a fashionable accessory.
A medical note touts Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as preventing croup when given at first hoarseness or after the cough begins. Claiming widespread use and twenty five years of flawless results, the advertisement cites Tralll & Cooling as local druggists distributing the remedy.
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