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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1901
Page
4
Finland harvests about 40 million bushels of cereals yearly and exports oats. The last census lists 300,650 horses, 2,398,183 cattle, 1,067,384 sheep, and 197,356 hogs. Milk and dairy surpluses reach 22.75 million pounds of butter and 400,000 pounds of cheese annually, with dairy exports near $7 million.
A Mexican doctor in Sierra Mojada discovered a process to extract rubber from the hule plant about a year ago. The plant contains around 40 percent rubber and grows in Mexico’s mountains as well as in parts of Texas Wyoming and Nebraska. It is a sage brush species with small leaves, reaching about three feet in height.
The Chicago Record notes Princess Louise Augusta of Schleswig Holstein and Prince Artibert of Anhalt were divorced by house law, illustrating a private royal prerogative. It contrasts this with commoners who must use ordinary divorce courts.
A 93 year old New York City resident reflecting on life says there may be more of the world now, recalling old Brooklyn customs when crossing the river. She recalls shouting for a boat on a certain street to reach Brooklyn in earlier days.
Chicago footpads snatch a woman's purse and flee. A pursuing mob of about twelve is drawn into a deserted street where the robbers turn and rob the entire group, leaving no money in any pockets.
The London Chronicle notes high Indian judge salaries while recounting an assault case framed as guerrilla warfare. A defense attorney mocks the plaintiff widow with a tale of nose leather and a jurist’s gaze, while a defendant who took the widow’s nose leather is bound over to keep the peace.
The Prince of Wales receives 200000 a year with 50000 for the Princess of Wales and 180000 for children. The Princess Royal earns 40000 and the late Duke of Edinburgh 126000. The Duke of Connaught 125000 and the Duke of Cambridge 60000. Daughters and Albany widow get 30000 each. Total payouts about 840000 yearly, plus civilists 1925000, over 2.5 million a year through the queen’s treasury.
Pension bureau notes a regiment in the Civil War with twenty eight men named George Washington on the rolls. A single company shows thirteen men named George Washington according to the applications.
Local notes report Frank Clemencon leaving for Aurora for new work on January 30. Jan 28 party events, a surprise for Miss Ruby Shook, and a masquerade at Rehberg's hall are recorded, along with Rebecca Sore’s recovery from a factory fall and a birthday party for Mrs Luce. A blaze at Bocada’s confectionery and a second fire at the adjacent White City Tea and Coffee store caused damage and injuries to a fireman.
The piece notes that rats are strong swimmers and can adapt to water in both flooded streams and cellar basements. It extends the point to include mice and squirrels as fellow rodents that also learn to swim when needed.
Ansonia Connecticut company receives the largest coproper trolley wire order in the United States weighing over 1,000,000 pounds. The wire is destined for British India to equip an early trolley line in the colony.
Dr. John P. Wood of Coffeyville Kansas has just turned ninety nine and closed a contract to give a series of lectures on Longevity. He remains active in medical practice.
The 112 cotton mills in Mexico consumed 57 million pounds of cotton last year and produced about 10 million woven and printed goods. They employed 22 thousand operatives and had sales exceeding 28 million dollars.
Professor Charles Villiers Stanford, a Dublin native, succeeds the late Sir Arthur Sullivan as conductor of the Leeds musical festival. Since 1887 he has held the chair of music at the University of Cambridge.
The Philadelphia board of health at its last meeting discussed compulsory registration of all consumption cases and the society believes this step will act as a check for the disease.
The city of Honolulu is set for a temperance crusade backed by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Ministers' Union. The advance guard of crusaders has just arrived to mobilize supporters and organize meetings.
Guaranteed first mortgages offered in amounts from 500 to 2600 dollars at 6 percent interest. Principal and interest guaranteed and payable in gold coin. Bank: Harlem Savings Bank, 105 Madison St, Harlem, IL.
The lamp chimney trade supports about 12 000 workers in the United States with millions produced annually. Most glass works shift west of the Alleghenies to Pennsylvania Ohio and Indiana. American makers offer 600 chimney varieties with wide regional differences and ongoing improvements outpacing population growth.
The article notes widespread lamp chimney use in New York and nationwide, with millions consumed annually. It describes imports from Germany and France, local production for domestic and export markets, and growing exports beyond Europe to Mexico, the West Indies, South Africa, China, and other lampusing regions.
A lawyer's wife recounts a tale of meeting a famed author in town. She praises his latest book, invites him to call, and later discovers his card tucked inside the worn copy, leaving her unable to explain the missing leaf.
A renowned professor warns the reporter to avoid disturbance as he claims to nearly prove that male wasps suffer less than females. He seeks funding to extend research, promising a potential human debt for confirming his theory. The scene ends with the reporter rushing to publish the anticipated breakthrough.
Nine year old Ida Duffy daughter of Thomas J Duffy of the Palatine Insurance San Francisco fought a wounded chicken hawk in San Rafael after it was kept prisoner in a yard. The hawk escaped and snagged in a tree the girl climbed and grabbed the bird to subdue it. The hawk clawed her face and hands but she held on and brought the bird to the ground to captivity. She escaped with cuts and facial scratches but no eye loss or serious injury.
Traveler Julian Ralph witnessed a grand canal procession where thousands of ducks swim in formation driven by farmers in boats. The mass spanned acres and moved fast, kept in line by bamboo poles, until a chopboat surged forward and split the flock without harming a bird.
The phrase reflects a spiritual maxim urging humility and surrender as prerequisites for divine blessing. It emphasizes personal limitation as a pathway to grace, implying that recognition of self-reliance ends prior to spiritual renewal.
A collection of maxims on patience, self control, duty, and character by Rousseau Hare Moody Goethe Sterling Rochefoucauld Franklin Thoreau Scott Lewes Drew Holland and others. The sayings urge restraint, perseverance, and integrity as foundations of true achievement and reputation.
The passage presents Josh Billings aifing aphorisms on eukonomy money and honesty. It argues that curiosity is essential to humanity and warns that greed and idleness corrode the soul.
Abram Rothmyer of Sharon Pennsylvania feared grave robbers would steal his body after death. He had a heavy metal casket built and stored at home. While moving the casket one evening it toppled and crushed him, causing fatal injuries.
The sponge’s surface shows larger holes at the top than the bottom and a network of channels inside. Water flows through the channels by hairlike appendages that agitate the Dolyps, bringing in food to sustain the sponge.
The December population estimate for the colony, as reported by Registrar General Sir D P Rees, stands at 287,288. The figure results from adding net immigration 1,143 and subtracting net deaths 77 from the 1898 year end population.
About fifty principal observatories worldwide are cooperating in a major program to improve measurements of the Earth Sun distance. The Lick Observatory has devoted roughly half its resources to this effort for two months and will extend observations for one or two more months.
The Siberian railway will cross a total of thirty miles of bridges. The line to Irkutsk requires many large spans including rivers Ob and Yenisei with lengths 840 and 930 yards respectively and other major crossings such as Irtysh at Omsk and Uda at Nijni Udinsk.
Organ grinders clash with a gang in Boston over a city ordinance allowing any resident within 300 feet to object to an organ grinder's performance. If the musician refuses to move, police must enforce the provision.
Though storm and flood its terrible work in Galveston Texas only a little while ago, the undaunted citizens of the stricken town have done much toward restoring it to its former good condition. Especially for a southern town it is a rehabilitation already somewhat marvelous.
Paris lowers the wine duty to ease costs for working families, yielding about 28 dollars per family yearly though city revenue would fall by nearly 9 million. the shortfall will be offset by other taxes.
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