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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1901
Page
7
Local notices update on social events and community news. Ed Waldvogle is ill with la grippe in Joliet. Several meetings include the Woman's club, W F M S, U P S C E, Austin Art League, Thirty club, and G A R Circle. Page reports cover talks by candidates John Collins and alderman Frank Race plus recitals, minstrel event, and donations.
Fragmentary timetable notes mention arrivals and departures between west and east routes with inconsistent times and codes. The legible items show scattered times such as 10 45 am and 1 00 pm, but the overall meaning remains ambiguous.
Business personals note A A Thayer has purchased the Braman Dilliard hall on North Park avenue. Vindicator home for 52d street and vicinity left at Justice Price's office will receive attention. W Percy Crenshaw, manager of Metropolitan Life Insurance, moves to room 1207 Merchants Loan Trust building Adams and Clark streets. M W Pierce also employed there.
Mil ler's offers photo supplies with personal supervision of prescriptions and a wide selection of Lazell's perfumes and monogram stationeries. Chas P Miller promotes fresh Miller's candies and the hay press led to higher sales for Roath and Robison. Tel 135.
Testimonies from multiple residents commend Chas Post for careful eye testing and satisfactory glasses fitting at his home address 532 North Pine Avenue. Customers include Thiele Pillinger Tevnen Hiller Biggs and others. orders left at Baker Lee's Jewelry 135 North Park Avenue will be promptly attended.
F I Newell offers instruction in guitar mandolin and banjo at 724 Pine Arts Building in Austin. Sessions are held Tuesdays Wednesdays and Fridays in Room 1 Cody Block.
A tip for curing the grip advises staying home and using Chamberlains Cough Remedy as directed. It claims the remedy prevents pneumonia, the serious danger, and notes tens of thousands have used it with all recovering. Sold by J P Garner Co in Austin and George Koch Co in Moreland.
A compact collage of maxims from Bacon Carlyle Emerson Horace La Rochefoucauld on wisdom, nature, timing, and private motives. The lines explore how questioning, nonpredictable methods, and restraint shape understanding and conduct.
Beston Boston newspapers hail local traffic line conductors as cultured ticket collectors. They claim many are multilingual and carry college diplomas in their inside pockets.
Peter Meltzler of Lotkhaven Pa. plans to be remembered after death by a cemetery monument a marble shaft costing four thousand dollars surmounted by a statue of himself erected in the local cemetery.
Lumber from old green houses offered at low price by S. C. Higginson. Sale includes delivery or ready on the ground at corner Walnut and Lake locations.
Lot 4 in Block 5 of West Chicago Land Co Subdivision clear of incumbrance offered for cash or trade for merchandise. Valued at $600 with highest offer taking it. Address near Erie Street by C N W Ry and Belt Line. contact W P Fanning Lock Box 51 Oakland Illinois.
For sale one brown Leghorn rooster Plymouth Rock cockerel three silver Laced Wyandotte cockerels from A C Vaughn's yards plus a folding bed with springs and mattress very cheap See at 5318 Ohio Street AUS
Mrs Cushman K Davis has returned to Washington and begins compiling her late husband Senator Davis's works on law politics diplomacy literature and wartime lectures. She will be assisted by Bishop Hurst a longtime Methodist church friend of the senator.
Reports say every ship loading at New Orleans with mules or horses under British contracts for South Africa is closely watched to prevent infernal machines from being placed aboard. Cautious scrutiny targets coal shipments as well to thwart sabotage.
Vermont cigar industry shows 33 factories in 1900 using 46,216 pounds of tobacco to produce 2,132,476 cigars with a weight of about three pounds per thousand.
Berlin hosts an Italian exposition at the zoological gardens featuring imitation streets from Naples Rome Florence Pompeii and Venice with canal scenes and related displays.
Dr. Barton will preach in the morning on The Healing Christ and in the evening on The Life and Times of David. The choir will render Marston s cantata David with the program highlighting the healing and biblical themes.
February notices from the Austin Methodist Church list preaching by the pastor on February 3 in the morning and evening with subjects Not Ashamed of the Gospel and The Town of Vanity Illustrated by paintings. A quarterly conference runs February 4 to 8 with various league and prayer services scheduled through February 8.
Cor Washington Boul J Clayton Yonker pastor leads a Sunday schedule with Sabbath School at 9 45 a m sermon at 11 am special music fellowship at noon Junior Epworth League at 2 30 p m vesper service at 5 p m and Senior Epworth League at 6 p m Prayer meeting Wednesday at 8 p m guidance of church activities and times given by Pastor Yonker.
Public notice states officials see no alarm from a supposed infectious condition at the church building. The building has been thoroughly fumigated and regular services will resume next Sunday with the offering for the American Baptist Home Mission Society.
Congregational services next Sunday feature a 10:30 morning sermon on the importance of commemorating the death of Christ followed by communion. At 7:30 the Christian Endeavor society marks its twentieth anniversary with talks on The CBE Movement Its Birth and Growth The Pledge Does it Require us to Promise too Much The CBE Idea and How to Make Our Society More Effective. Special music and general discussion invite all attendees.
Morning sermon at 10 o'clock titled The Atonement and an evening talk at 7 30 titled Lesson from the Life of Abraham. An electric arc light was placed at Fifty-second avenue and Fulton street for church safety. A concert by the C W Best Concert company is set for Thursday evening February 7 at 8 p m. Endeavor business meeting follows Monday at the home of Mr Charles Peterson 2529 Lake Street.
The Oak Park Second Congregational Church schedules 10 30 a m sermon Lifted Wheat The Salvation of Peter by Rev Syd ney Strong a 12 o clock Sunday school 4 p m Junior Endeavor 5 p m Vesper with communion reception of members 6 15 p m Senior and Intermediate Endeavor. Weekly topics run Feb to Apr include Rome Not Built in a Day Growth What Is It All For Character The Master Key Prayer Chart to the Ocean Bible A Mountain Mover Faith An Unused Cistern Giving An Unplanted Seed Service All in a Nut Shell Love From Chrysalis to Butterfly Annual meeting for church reports on Monday night Jan 16.
The Nickel Plate Road promotes summer travel to the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. The line touts its service and courteous train staff, urging travelers to book routes via Nickel Plate and contact general agent John Y. Calahan in Chicago for tickets.
The article discusses the earliest insects, noting that the oldest fossils show a polyp first, with insects appearing later. It mentions a cockroach as the first known insect and references a possibly older insect from lower Silurian rocks in Sweden named Protocimex Silurius.
An obscure Paris fruit dealer advertised five francs to the producer of the largest apple sent him. Farmers sent apples to his shop, many were kept for stock, and the dealer profited from increased sales while paying only for the winning fruit.
A Philadelphia charitable society active for eighty three years has given away daily for fourteen weeks each winter seventy five gallons of soup and 300 loaves of bread. The superintendent has served sixty four years in the effort.
On the Rosebud a Dakota Nation regrets permitting cattle to graze on their lands after pasture wore out. About 25,000 cattle began grazing the Indian lands following the initial grant of permission.
Stamp sales in Borneo and Labuan in 1899 totaled £20 000, with annual postage from letters from the two colonies limited to £800. The remaining £19 200 likely went into albums worldwide.
Nebraska Governor Dietrich, a widower, declines to live in the governor's mansion in Lincoln. He suggests selling the mansion or maintaining the building at state expense like other public property.
Reports indicate Japan is weighing a method that would place the condemned in a sealed chamber and evacuate air using a pump to induce death. This proposal follows debates on humane execution alternatives.
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