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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1901
Page
7
The Vindicator reports Rev. A. M. White pastor of the M.B.K. Church organizes a European tour this coming summer. His experience and knowledge of places of interest will aid travelers. those planning to go should obtain full details from Mr. White before arranging travel.
Vindicator items for 52d street and vicinity at Justice Price's office will receive attention. Smith & Little buy S Clarke grocery store at Fifty-second avenue and Kinzie street. Cr B Patrick closes coal business in Austin and plans to move to Omaha to join his brother A L Patrick in lumber and coal. Ward offers curry combs brushes whips and blankets at harness shop. Miller's drugstore offers photo supplies and monogram stationery. Lazell's perfumes and candies. Guitar mandolin banjo instruction by F I Newell in Cody Block and Fine Arts Building on Tuesdays Wednesdays and Fridays.
A ruffled sofa pillow prize at Mrs. Phil Sheridan Tent No. 4 Daughters of Veterans went to No. 19 Mr. G W Waterman. Luncheon honored Miss Lilian E Phillips, national president. Pro gressive euchre at 213 N Park Ave Feb 13 ticket 15c. Nonpareil Euchre Club prizes awarded. Plans for a tree kindergarten at Iowa Street School advance with parent support. Thirty Club hosts Mr. and Mrs Gilbert from 92 N Fifty Third Ave Feb 16 studio Hoggins Cody block. St Catherine’s parish plans Feb 14 church social in basement with Mrs Geselbracht and Mrs Wallace in charge. Austin Art League hosted landscape talk at 5646 S Boulevard. Soul Culture Club to meet Feb 16 at Dr Lizzie W Charles home with Rev Campbell address on Does the New Theology Make Better Men. Ruth Austin injured after slip on Cedar Street near Abbott Block. she returned home with Dr Jones. Final Feb 5 afternoon funds support Trinity College scholarship for Chicago women. winner to be chosen by merit.
Advertisement from The A. T. Morris Wholesale House of Cincinnati Ohio seeks a reliable man to manage a new branch in the vicinity. If your record is clean provide references when writing. Mail includes illustrated catalogue and stamps price list.
Nickel Plate Road will operate as the short Chicago to Buffalo link for the Pan American Exposition this summer offering fast express trains. Dining cars feature American club meals priced from 35 cents to 1 dollar, with palatial sleeping cars and day coaches. Uniformed porters attend to passenger needs as the line touts comfort and modern equipment under General Agent John Y. Calahan in Chicago.
Remain at home and take Chamberlains Cough Remedy as directed to quick recovery. The remedy counteracts the grip’s tendency to pneumonia, the serious danger. It has reportedly helped tens of thousands with no reported nonrecoveries. Sold by J P Garner Co Austin and Geo Koch Co Moreland.
The Chicago city council orders removal of oversized advertising signs near parks boulevards and public buildings. The piece notes New York also faces similar issues and urges strict action to curb unsightly signs in Gotham.
Three congressmen now in Washington have set up a daily mail clearing house due to similar names. Robinson of Indiana Robertson of Louisiana and Robinson of Nevada read each other’s misdirected letters and have given up trying to keep family secrets.
An editor in Missouri asked farmers to send neighborhood news. One reply mentions two schoolmarms, hog cholera, about fifty bushels of potatoes, and a man who married a cross-eyed girl for her mule and forty acres of land, signed yours truly.
Thirty five notable American sculptors will contribute to the grounds and buildings of the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo. They are at work on 125 original groups of statuary for the event.
The new Kansas senator J. R. Barton resembles the late ex Senator Ingalls in stature and voice, with a long figure and similar mannerisms observed. The resemblance is noted in contemporary commentary.
Morning service features a sermon titled The Blessedness of Giving. Evening service presents Saloon Smashing or the New Temperance Crusade. Sunday school begins at noon and Young People's meeting at 6 30 p m. Services are at 10 30 a m and 7 30 p m.
Col. Washington Boul. J Clayton Yonker, pastor, presides over a Sunday program starting at 9 45 Sabbath School and 11 sermon. Special quartet music at noon followed by Fellowship, Junior Epworth League at 2 30 and Vesper service 5 with Senior Epworth League at 6. Wednesday prayer meeting at 8.
Rev W E Barton D D leads morning sermon on The Humanity of God and evening on The Life and Times of David The postponed program includes Marstons cantata David sung by the choir The Healing Christ sermon from Feb 3 has been published for distribution after morning services
The Christian Church at 207 North Park Avenue reports Pastor George A. Campbell will preach on The Kind of a Christian the Times Demand. The Boys' Club meets Friday at 7 p.m. A mission Sunday school opens at Forty-eighth Avenue and Kinzie Street with services at 3 p.m. A citywide church rally is set for next Sunday afternoon at Kimball Hall.
Feb 10 preaching schedule with morning and evening services. Morning sermon Working for God and evening The Town of Vanity illustrated by Long's pulpit paintings. Feb 11 Epworth League business session at 8 p m. Feb 12 social union at Oakland Church 6 p m. Feb 13 Bible reading and prayer at 7 45 p m. Feb 15 Bible reading 7 45 p m and Feb 16 choir rehearsal at 8 p m. Feb 22 Washington's Birthday banquet address and patriotic music. reserve the date.
Lot 4 Block 5 West Chicago Land Co subdivision applicable parcel in section 10 township 39 range 13 at Moreland near Erie Street close to Belt Line and Chicago and North Western Railway. Highest cash or trade offer takes it. worth $600 and clear of incumbrance. W P Fanning, Lock Box 51 Oakland Ill.
Fine Brown Leghorn rooster and Fine Plymouth Rock cockerel from A C Vaughn's yards. Three Silver Laced Wyandotte cockerels. One folding bed with springs and mattress very cheap. Call at 5318 Ohio Street, Austin.
Guaranteed first mortgages offered in amounts from $500 to $2,600 by Harlem Savings Bank. Interest and principal guaranteed and payable in gold coin. Address: 195 Madison St Harlem.
Gideon's Band, a traveling Christian group, will conduct Sunday evening services at 7 30 with an invitation to all traveling men. Morning sermon titled Regeneration is the second in a series on great Bible doctrines. A social for adults at Mr Peifer's home, 126 South Fifty third avenue, Thursday evening Feb 14, includes a 10 cent lunch. Eight join last Sabbath, nineteen additions in five weeks.
Mrs. Hanna O Carman born in New Jersey in 1810 died February 6 after paralysis. She lived in Illinois for 28 years and was mother of Sam 8 Carman. Funeral today at 423 S East avenue with Dr Strong officiating, interment Forest Home cemetery.
The text notes pennies include 2 percent tin and 3 percent zinc with 95 percent copper. They cost the government about 42 cents per pound excluding stamping, with 148 coins per pound. The government earns a profit on each pound minted as pennies are redeemable in gold but seldom redeemed.
The Chicago and Florida Limited debuts as a daily solid train from Chicago to Thom asville Jacksonville and St Augustine with dining car service. It departs Chicago at 11 05 a m via Evansville Nashville Birmingham and Montgomery Plant System to Jacksonville and Florida East Coast to St Augustine arriving 7 30 p m next day. Annex sleepers depart Cincinnati 11 15 a m and St Louis 2 15 p m and through service is provided.
The notice advertises lower prices as the wall paper trust dissolves and urges customers to act now for spring work. Turner offers estimates at 224 North Waller Avenue Austin and features new designs.
Prof. A. V. Williams of Columbia University goes to India to pursue work in Indo Iranian languages and literatures. He plans to enter Afghanistan via the Khyber Pass to study Parsees and Hindoos customs and religious ceremonies and expects to return in June.
Jewelry cleaning method suggests washing in hot soapsuds with a few drops of ammonia, then rinse in alcohol, dry, and store in jewelers' sawdust. This process leaves no marks or scratches and increases brilliance of jewels and precious metals.
An observation notes a litter jogging scene where a watch or clock is partly out of frame. The fragment hints at a poetic mood with the line about a little passion the heart attributed to Philip Henry.
Special services begin next Sunday at 5 pm at Oak Park Second Congregational Church. For five Sundays from Feb 10 to March 10 Pastor Sydney Strong will present Why Christians Join with themes including Membership, Things Allowed, Our Confession of Faith, and Our Common Purpose. Everyone invited.
The Nickel Plate Road promotes its service for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition. It urges travelers to route tickets via Nickel Plate and to contact John Y. Calahan, general agent, Chicago, for arrangements.
The wilt affecting cotton over the last seasons is caused by a soil fungus that attacks the plant at the roots and then the stem. This disrupts the plant's ability to transport food and moisture from the roots, reducing growth and vigor.
Experiments in Austria test a new portable oven for field and transport use. The current oven is heavy and must be moved in sections, while the new model can be carried on a cart and used for baking even on the march.
F L Hewett of Winfield Illinois recalls a winter 1898 1899 bout with La Grippe and credits two bottles of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with breaking up the cold and stopping coughing. He says the remedy wards off pneumonia and is pleasant to take. Sold by J P Garner Co Austin Geo Koch Co Moreland.
A Danville Kentucky house, notable as the site where Thomas Lincoln became engaged to Nancy Hanks, was destroyed by fire recently. It was Boyle County’s first two story dwelling.
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