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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1897
Page
5
The plant boasts duplicate boilers engines and dynamos with all night service. Wiring of houses is promptly done by an efficient corps of mechanics according to Underwriters Association Rules at very low figures.
A mix of curious tales including a Philadelphia grocer’s warning, a San Francisco beggar’s touring act, a Michigan envelope with $5, a milkman outbreak linked to tickets, a German mustard pot, and an heir in Maryland set to inherit $175000. Also notes on Voltaire predicting Bible decline, a London Bible print run, a clergyman’s serialized tale, a Voltaire note, a Westwood jaw dislocation, a Maine shoe scare, and a horse hole riddle in East Winthrop.
A newspaper notice touts Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a remedy for kidney and urinary issues. It claims urine clues diagnose kidney trouble and promises relief for back pain frequent urination and scalding. Samples and pamphlets are offered free by mail from Kilmer Co. Binghamton NY.
A snapshot of dated items: Maine's first piano factory, opened sixty years ago, remains in Lincoln. Other notes include a Los Angeles jury delaying verdict until fees paid, New York library funding up to 9 000 dollars, Scotland peppermints replaced by whisky filled drops, Cronstadt as Russian Baltic fleet fortress, Maryland penitentiary population rise, Mongolian geese and turkeys shipped to Liverpool, Japan making bicycles called jiu ten sha, a Borneo king buying a fourteen inch searchlight, Queen Victoria reign commemoration plan, a cartoon gag from Puck about coronets, British author ad campaigns selling books, and Michigan white cedar shingles lasting seventy five years.
A fragment notes two English engineering houses, the Armstrongs and the Whitworths, nearing an amalgamation. Maude-Miriamo pursues secrecy about an engagement. A dialogue hints at the details with a brief rural reference to a ten mile distance near Topeka Kansas and a bizarre house built of baled hay with a canvas root.
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