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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1901
Page
4
The passage praises the nineteenth century as the age of scientific spirit led by Darwin. It highlights investigation, verification, evidence, and unwavering veracity as core traits shaping modern science and its influence on thought and society.
A reflection on how kindness remains valued over cleverness in judging people. The piece contrasts Walter Scott and Dickens’s enduring appeal with harsher modern precocity, praising honest, loving characters. It argues warmth toward others wins respect and affection, especially from the young and the elderly.
A cook at the Banner sawmill near Closan Range heard a racket and found a big black bear grabbing a meat side hanging outside. He was severely gashed and lacerated after the bear seized his arm through a window.
Swan ing farmer Hiram Buxton met three confidence men near the station in St. Louis. Posing as relatives he joined a dice game and won steadily. Buxton pocketed $37 before noting train time and leaving. The incident ended with the men losing $30 to Buxton.
Professor Koch announces findings from Java and New Guinea suggesting gnat bites introduce parasites into humans. He claims the germs develop within the gnat rather than spreading directly between people.
Bequests in the United States totaled 62,461,644 for the year just ended, down from 79,749,965 in 1899. Educational institutions received 34,932,644. charities 18,621,732. churches 8,800,605. museums and art galleries 2,146,333. libraries 2,961,000.
Senator Platt of New York shows strong aversion to tobacco enforcing a smoke free committee room and has ejected visitors for smoking with one cigar confiscated and tossed out a window.
Cornelius L. Alvord, the New York embezzler just starting a thirteen year Sing Sing sentence, was drawn as a juror in Mount Vernon city court. The presiding judge gravely said he would excuse Mr. Alvord for the present.
Miss Ella Waske recovers from inflammatory rheumatism. Miss Emma Henning hosts birthday party. Rev. George A Campbell to discuss temperance. Lot misprint corrected in class ads. Mrs Hendrickson injured at church recovering. Mr A A Woodruff attends funeral in Iowa. Edward Bugg saloon closed and sold by mortgage firm. New Sunday school meets with large turnout. Wm Kinkead superintendent. Kronan society to hold masquerade ball Feb 16. Births: Ogden and McNickel families announce sons. Republican meeting endorses Chase Gaye for alderman. Local ads note fresh confectionery bakers and periodicals.
A Indiana legislator introduces a bill to deny policemen the privilege of practicing law in state courts. Current law allows anyone of good moral character who has knowledge to practice, but the legislator argues the line should be drawn at policemen.
Stockmen in the Bad River region have raised a handsome sum to continue wolf warfare as the state plans to repeal the wolf bounty law. The state has spent $30,000 on wolf scalps and the present legislature is not expected to maintain the appropriation.
Doctors Landon and Low return to England in excellent health after a summer in a mosquito-proof hut near Ostia. The season was said to be exceptionally marred by malarial conditions in the Roman Campagna.
Thomas Carlyle and Hugh Miller were masons. Jeremy Taylor was a barber. Andrew Johnson was a tailor. Cardinal Wolsey Defoe and Henry Mirke White were butchers. Faraday was the son of a blacksmith and his teacher Humphrey Davy was an apothecary apprentice.
A group of Massachusetts citizens forms a committee to solicit subscriptions for a public memorial to the late Governor Roger Wolcott. The plan envisions erecting the monument in Boston, likely on the state house grounds.
The world population is about 1.6 billion. Great Britain and colonies hold 25.9 percent, Russia 8.09 percent, France 6.3 percent, United States 6.7 percent, Germany 4.6 percent, Austro-Hungary 3.1 percent, and Italy 2.2 percent.
Ohio congressman Phattuc favors bright colored waistcoats to catch the speaker's eye while serving in the front row on the Republican side. The lighthearted note appears in a column about fashion choices among lawmakers.
United States authorities clash with southwest salt operators over unallotted mineral lands in the Colorado desert near the Mexico border. A Pasadena reporter notes the vast crystallized salt area, its unique geology, and past Salton Sea flooding origins. The industry ships about 2000 tons of salt yearly, valued 6 to 34 dollars per ton, until a December land-office injunction halted operations pending inquiry.
A traveling reader defends country papers while sharing clippings from the Unionville Banner. The Local News recalls Miss Ella Stuart's music pupils and Pattonsburg classes, mentions Walter Thomas renewing stock, and notes Walter's grandfather Pap Thomas near the old railroad hut amid fond, if flawed, recollections.
An old Unionville reader reflects on memories sparked by local notices in the town paper. He contrasts homegrown success with city headlines, noting familiar faces, civic roots, and the worth of rural news over sensational city stories.
The British Navy prepares the new 9.2 inch gun for armored cruisers with hydraulic mounting. The six inch thick front hood and four inch rear hood enclose the crew in armor. The system, weighing around fifty tons for the hood and about one hundred tons for the gun and mount, is designed for a range of fifteen miles and coast defense use.
At a small Namur village a cache of 960 Roman coins has been unearthed in perfect preservation. The coins bear effigies of at least 15 different emperors and empresses, dating to the third and fourth centuries.
A Petermann's Mittheilungen notice claims a large Chinese influx is driving the Manchus from Manchuria and that their language may vanish if children are educated in Chinese.
Artemisia wife of Mausolus funded a tomb so splendid it named sepulchral structures. The brunette Greek beauty’s eyes were black and her features regular as described in the fragment.
Financial reports show that 18,261,283 shares of Sugar common stock were bought and sold on the New York Stock Exchange during 1900. The entire common stock changed hands forty times over.
The foundation for several new Wall Street skyscrapers is carried by shafts to a depth of 130 feet using compressed air. Workers endure the strenuous digging and receive a full day’s pay for ninety minutes of actual work.
Dr Samuel Dixon of the Academy of Natural Sciences kept goldfish in an office aquarium. One fish suffered a fungus growth on its tail, grew thin and declined. Dixon performed the first underwater tail amputation, removing the diseased tail with careful technique.
Report describes strangest case where a new tail has grown from the stump of a diseased tail. Medical observers note rapid regeneration and peculiar development as the patient improves in health.
In a London charity portrait exhibition guarded by detectives a detective asks a committee member who the woman in a picture is. He replies that in Scotland Yard terms she is “a high class criminal.” The portrait is Mary Queen of Scots.
Gerald N Carey, heir to the Calf of Man, visiting New Markham hotel via Roasland BC, plans to return to England and Manxland. He is uncle W L Drinkwater Carey’s heir, with ownership claims dating to a royal grant. the island, home to a single inhabited house, sits among 120 cultivated acres and is viewed as a kingdom by the Carey family.
Richard Yates inaugurated as Illinois governor becoming the first native of the state to hold the office. The ceremony took place on January 14, the same date his father Richard Yates was inaugurated forty years earlier.
A New York sporting club has purchased 1700 acres in western Massachusetts to be kept under fence as a game preserve. The plan includes a 100 acre lake stocked with fish and the construction of private stables and cottages.
Mr and Mrs Henry Hemmingway divorced in Marinette Wisconsin after a brief stormy marriage. The court ordered the husband to pay six dollars monthly alimony. The couple eloped when both were over sixty years old.
Health authorities report deaths from consumption in Philadelphia are estimated to be one third lower than fifteen years ago. They credit ongoing efforts and aggressive disease control measures for the improvement.
The article notes a strong likeness between J. R. Burton and ex Senator Ingalls in appearance and speech patterns. It suggests Burton, touted as the new senator from Kansas, bears notable resemblance to the former lawmaker.
A medical report describes a 16 year old girl with 94 warts on her hands. After revaccination on June 1 as advised by a medical journal, the warts began to fade seven weeks later and disappeared entirely by August 30, leaving only temporary white spots. The case is discussed as evidence for suggestion effects in disease.
The Maine population includes many centenarians such as Eben Lancaster at Bowdoinham who voted for McKinley, Patricken of Portland near 104, Mrs Dorothy Ferbin er of Scribner’s Mills age 100, and several others like Mrs Eirza Pinkham 105 and Mrs Caroline Hight 101. Details note long-lived residents with varied histories.
The Medical Press and Circular of London asserts obesity stems largely from racial and individual predisposition with occupation and personal habits as strong factors. It notes cheaper transport and rapid urban transit may boost obesity, predicting the next generation could evolve accordingly.
The British Museum, among the most conservative institutions, still supplies quills in its reading rooms though steel pens have prevailed for seventy years. Quills are described as invariably breaking when used, yet authorities continue to provide them.
The Queen of Siam owns a remarkable gold thimble shaped like a lotus bud studded with diamonds. It was given by her husband and soon will bear her name and the date of their marriage.
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