08 Feb 1901
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1901
Page
1
In a serialized tale, Gladys rebuilds her life with wealth and family after a troubled past with Harvey. Harvey’s later life remains loyal, while Helen bears the burden of past choices. White Feather, a timid recruit, overcomes fear amid the Boer War to rescue a wounded captain, earning a last, silent commendation from comrades as he charges into danger.
A linen draper’s assistant, smitten by a girl who loves soldiers, deserts his shop life for a cavalry regiment. He rises quickly in skills then faints on his first riding display, crying to dismount as comrades laugh and his former occupation falls away.
A Royal artillery skirmish scene shows White Feather carrying a wounded comrade to safety beneath fire. The British commander praises his fire discipline and considers a cross or commission, while White Feather dreams of recognition before dying moments later.
The article surveys women who turn surplus items into income by preserving produce, making stock and soups, offering home services to sick or busy families, and selling crafts. It highlights specialization from embroidery to cleaning to child entertainment, arguing practical planning and execution advance a woman’s place in society.
The clipper Luzon reported a strange near-miss with a partially dismasted ship seen in calm weather off Staten Island. Capt Park later linked the illusion to fata morgana mirages that reflected a vessel far away, later identifying the Komisaroff as the reflected vessel with a broken foremast.
For fourteen years Miss May Love works at a Bridgeport corset factory. She suddenly becomes heir to one fifth of a $20,000,000 fortune after receiving a letter from brother George in Montclair, N J. The news says Uncle Ashbel Clark died in Australia, leaving vast riches and kin as nearest relatives. The 30 year old woman faces a life altered from toil to wealth.
The plan serves about 31,000,000 by free city delivery and aims to reach an additional 21,000,000 in rural areas over 1,000,000 square miles. Estimated total cost is 20,555,000 with savings from closing offices and routes and higher receipts lowering net increment to 13,782,000. Current appropriation is 1,750,000 and a rise to 3,500,000 is recommended for next fiscal year.
Pope Leo sternly denounces socialism as a materialist system tied to communism and urges rejection of its goal of equal wealth. He differentiates it from Christian democracy, which aligns with divine law and promotes social improvement through individual effort. The encyclical clarifies Vatican stance on political economy.
Adelbert S. Hay, United States consul at Pretoria, is on his way home after nearly a year at the center of the South African conflict. He witnessed Boer capital withdrawal and British reverses, and now argues Boer independence and that the British will not prevail.
Dr Kann of Vienna, the youngest Arctic explorer at 25, earned degrees in philosophy physics and mathematics at the University of Vienna and won an imperial traveling scholarship. His first journey to America secured a Cornell tutorship he later left to join the Arctic expedition of Stein and Warmbath.
Woodstock Ont plans to transfer its electric light plant to city ownership after an earlier sale. Kingston Ont notifies its light company to arbitrate a transfer of the entire plant, valued at 800000 dollars, with contracts expiring in 1901. Winnipeg Manitoba reports successful municipal operation with cheaper, better service than private control.
Mrs. Mary E. Poole of Whiting Indiana has been elected as President of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic Presidents Association. She extols Dodd's Kidney Pills for Brights Disease and kidney disorders, noting personal use and recommending purchase from local druggists or Dodds Medicine Co Buffalo NY.
A Glasgow letter in M. A. P. recounts three yeomanry scouts captured near Lindley. De Wet reportedly offered to free them if they carried a dispatch to General Rundle, with the letter asking to strand the three devils and signed by De Wet.
Physicians warn deafness rooted in inflammation of the Eustachian tube cannot be cured by topical applications. They say nine of ten cases stem from catarrh and demand constitutional treatment, offering a cure for catarrh deafness with Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
The century old Adriatic marriage ceremony is set for revival in Venice next year. The ancient annual ritual, once discontinued, is expected to resume with full splendor and public celebration.
A collage of patent medicines and advertisements appears, touting Kemp’s Balsam to stop coughing and Garfield Tea for obstinate constipation. It notes sample bottles, 25 and 60 cent sizes, and urges quick action. An engraved proverb on a key-ring, linked to a drowning in the Lea, adds a somber aside.
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