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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1901
Page
4
The Chicago Tribune touts itself as bright and independent, balancing strong opinions with fairness. It emphasizes comprehensive local and foreign news, superior reporting facilities, and a daily concise summary, plus a popular Sunday sporting section.
A column-like reflection from Pennsylvania Grit with dialect and moral musings on fate pride fear and faith. It muses on the unjust and the just, the passage of time, mortality, devotion to God, and the stubbornness of human pursuit.
An astronomer notes his business is looking up while a watch stays on guard. A crook winds up to run, but a business winds up to stop. Banter about Miss Goldie and a reserved courtship turns into a playful exchange. A humorist laments long sitting in cold weather after hours.
A Panama Colombia anchored naval officer writes of fierce humidity at about 90 degrees, damp heat making shoes bloom with mushrooms, and wearing dreachclouts. He dismisses insurrection rumors as fake while noting busy market conditions from ships buying coal and beef and recalling a 1885 war with glimpses of a Spanish priest in a well.
Thackeray failed to entertain Charlotte Bronte at a dinner in her honor and left in despair. George Smith recalls Bronte visiting publishers and parties, finding her a quiet, observant guest who unsettled some hosts and readers.
The prickly pear is a major obstacle to land settlement in parts of Australia. It spreads rapidly, with a single fruit producing many seeds. It endures drought while other vegetation dies, and its control has become a national issue in Queensland.
The fish commission notes improved sport in western streams. Mr. F. J. Cannon of Idaho says several streams stocked with trout now thrive and are protected by law, with their rapidly multiplying numbers.
Richard Schneider welcomed a boy at 237 Erle Street while Henry Nash School teachers enjoyed a sleigh ride. Rev. Campbell speaks on The Greatest Sin of Moreland at Sayles Hall. An Odd Fellows anniversary and supper dance drew about 150. A George Washington entertainment is planned at 2398 Austin Avenue hosted by MBE church ladies. U S Express driver Harry Ogden was badly bruised when his wagon collided with a streetcar near Center Avenue. James McHale, recently injured at Bel Line railway, now crutches with back in plaster. A petition seeks a branch public library at C. W. Smith 2611 West Lake Street. Confectionery and bakery goods offered by CG W Smith at 2511 Lake Street. Miss Anna Helm, 22, dies of consumption, funeral at Swedish MKE church with Orion Quartet, interment Forest Home.
A children's Masquerade and Snow Ball Party hosted by Rehberg and Catlin's Academy for Dancing on Saturday February 23, 1901 from 2 to 6 30 p m Tickets are 10 cents no free admissions The Snow Ball Battle is set for 4 30 p m A cake walk and a waltz complete the evening Promoters promise a magnificent sight in a ball room.
F L Hewett of Winfield Indiana credits Chamberlains Cough Remedy with curing a severe La Grippe in 1898 99 and stopping coughing. He claims the medicine breaks up the cold wards off pneumonia and is pleasant to take. Sold by J P Garner Co Austin Geo Koch Co
Young girls in London wear strings of pearls woven into loose hair coils with coral and turquoise beads. Satin or velvet bows sit in front of the knot, topped by a spray of flowers or holly. Older women favor jeweled combs and pins in hats, adding rich color.
Favored Calve, the prima donna, was robbed on tour when two Spaniards stole her pocketbook containing luck pieces and talismans. Newspapers reported the theft, and the courteous thieves returned the relics in a bag with a note asking to keep the money as a souvenir of the great singer.
F. C. Burnand calls for Money as a priority for the era. Clement Shorter urges practical solutions to poverty with more thought and less talk. Rev H. R. Haweis favors fact over fancy and faith over form. Dean Farrar presses for strenuousness self denial and a firm belief in righteousness for empire permanence.
The article notes St Bartholomew's Episcopal Church New York led U.S. in income and expenditures at about 208 000 dollars last year with 60 000 from pew rentals and a 200 000 gift for a clinic building. It compares incomes across denominations highlighting Brick Church and Fifth Avenue Church as other large donors. Methodists hold vast property value and large counts with Madison Avenue church leading incomes among Methodists.
Miss Maud Lancaster, an English telepathic professional, offers private demonstrations to scientists and officials in London and eastern cities. She claims brain activity is as transparent as glass and says she has aided Scotland Yard detectives in tracking felons.
In New York state a stock farm raises many Shetland ponies kept outdoors year round. Sixty to seventy ponies graze and romp, newborns weigh 20 to 35 pounds and are handled like dogs. Children ride and drive ponies, a terrier booster acts playful, and ponies endure storms outside with a warm barn and straw stack nearby.
The report notes that British correspondence with the United States reached 41 million letters, compared with 65 million letters exchanged with Europe, highlighting a shift in cross Atlantic and continental mail volume.
An English magazine piece surveys famed courtships of women such as Gladstone and Glynne at Rome and Sarah Siddons, Charlotte Bronte, and Isabel Arundel with Sir Richard Burton, noting bold romantic turns and the entwined fates of lovers across era and society. A second item describes a telegraphic clock network linking clocks from Boston to New Orleans to Washington, synchronized to begin a new day simultaneously.
The text outlines how artillery transformed from a non soldierly corps under Charles XII to a commanded unit with ranks and companies. It notes historical weapons like the musket and armor, and details ancient formations from Alexander the Great to Greek phalanxes and cavalry tactics, including unit scales from sixteen to large phalangarchies and the role of cavalry in flanking pursuit.
The Naval Observatory in Washington houses the national transmitting clock that announces noon to cities from the Rockies to Maine. With a Pacific duplicate, this master timepiece sets nearly every timepiece across the United States and Cuba each day except Sunday.
A collection of disparate data points lists prices, distances, and statistics. It mentions Canada’s road network, the Hudson River length, ancient Mexican timekeeping, Tacoma debt, Greek instruments, the London Times printing in 1814, French coal use, New York City growth, Welsh regiments, a record cold, cotton values, cotton seed value, and Russian labor rates.
The German emperor wears a tiny bracelet hidden by his cuff. The czar of Russia keeps a gold watch valued at 4000 roubles and misfortune follows if it is neglected. Marie Christine of Spain changes rings five or six times daily for luck. The sultan of Turkey dons a chain shirt of gold and silver with many rings, believed to bring fortune.
A household remedy suggests bathing the head and neck with a hot towel after a tiring day to soothe the nerves and rest the body. The same method is claimed to relieve nervous headaches and overheating with a rush of blood to the head.
In Sweden a special class of farm laborers receive land for their own use in exchange for a set number of workdays each year to the farm owner. They are described as fixtures on an estate, a feature not found in other countries.
A traveler recovering from a long ocean crossing described extreme illness during the voyage. He recalled that the sole thing that could stay on his stomach was a small mustard plaster, highlighting his suffering.
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