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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1900
Page
4
A reflective piece on happiness lying in possession rather than wealth and the folly of vanity. It warns against overconfidence in propriety and shows how clever talk masks need. It also critiques pretentious weather guesses and the ease of disguising simple thoughts as complex.
Local updates show Manning T. Hackley as Republican candidate for alderman in the Twenty-eighth ward. Various residents reported illnesses, windfalls, and social events including Mr and Mrs James McGuire mourning their 3-year-old son Charles. A church plans a new brick edifice at Forty-ninth avenue and Indiana street. A February 27 masquerade at Rehberg Hall funds dancing classes for children and features multiple prize categories and attire rules.
The Cicero town board votes to rescind the track elevation ordinance. Trustees Frink Mac Donald and Traill vote yes with Attridge Hafner opposing. Linn excused and Utley absent. The board also rescinds a July 31 resolution on house numbering north of the C&NW railway and adopts a new plat plan starting at Chicago avenue.
The Saturday Review notes Russian students’ passive mendacity and says the university offers a golden opportunity for the poor, accessible regardless of means. It observes Moscow during term time shows many plan to attend, with uniforms marking students and foot travel common for the many, carriages for the few.
New York correspondence reports a Brooklyn cat climbing a tree to escape a dog. It reached a small branch sixty feet above ground, the branch broke, and the cat fell but landed on its feet. It bounded away unharmed, suggesting the fall did not injure a Brooklyn cat.
Reported solidified alcohol sent in a tin vessel intended as a pocket lamp and stove contains about 62 percent alcohol, 20 percent soap, and 18 percent water. A similar product is described as made by dissolving a gum like accapeuim in warm alcohol.
In October 1896 the publisher B S Edwards of The Review Wyant Illinois says a bad cold settled on his lungs and nearly looked like consumption. After trying a local doctor he used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and three bottles restored his lungs to health. For sale by Traill Cooling Austin and C P Miller Oak Park.
A peerless trio of express trains run daily via the Nickel Plate road linking Chicago Fort Wayne Cleveland Erie Buffalo New York City and Boston with intermediate stops. Service and equipment are among the best and rates are lower than other lines. The route is the shortest between Chicago and Buffalo. Uniformed colored porters attend to passengers in day coaches.
Coen UC rates as one of the few who speak Pilipino and Yentite. New York banker Leary Clews enjoys solving difficult problems. Lord Kitchener buys land on the Nile for a project with stock and plants. An Austrian emperor’s crown, valued at over 1000000, is noted as a European treasure. Rev Cox, English clergyman, supports Boer relief and British soldiers fund, and writes a hymn for churches.
The May 2 1890 World Herald editorial notes The Chicago Tribune stands out among leading American newspapers for multiple strengths. It praises news quality typographic appearance and comprehensive classification while highlighting the Tribune as the premier paper read by Chicago’s educated public and leading to high advertising output in the West.
Philosophical convictions are easy to gain yet hard to keep and cannot be taught in full. Liberty for man does not guarantee universal happiness, and science serves humanity with disinterested research. Imagination is stirred by accidents, reason by their number. superstition fades as new ideas appear. Our tool is intelligence, yet basic handwork remains vital. civilization sits atop native savagery. From Gustave VaVey Gant.
A year into a Donegal venture, Irish workers craft hand-tufted Turkish Persian carpets without steam power. Girls tie knots by hand, select colors, and finish with woolen weft shots. The project aims to broaden across the west of Ireland, offering broad rural employment and skilled, cheerful labor as stated by the London Furniture Record.
A compact set of aphorisms equating bravery with manly rights, millennium with selfishness ending, and friendship with motive-free generosity. Life is a graveyard for bright blossoms, beauty unseen often holds the greatest value, and world reflects selfless meaning. Press is free by constitution and some women. Smoke the Twentieth Century hand made 6 cent cigar.
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