28 Feb 1896
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1896
Page
1
A jumble of observations spans topics from orange juice and fame to protests in Germany and Boston, noting gas versus steam, prize fights, and the Armenian question. It covers politics, marriage trends, women’s movements, and public notices, ending with reflections on Cuba and persistence of enemies.
A Chicago Chronicle observer notes women in fencing classes as ideal for fitness and grace. The piece describes the setting high above the city, leather belts, plastrons, wire masks, and the careful steps of stance guard advance retreat and lunge, highlighting fencing as a work out for health and carriage.
Fred Connors of Oi City Pa surpasses all prior marks by 10 114 skips in 80 minutes. The record exceeds Billy Plimmer and McMullen figures with 10 111 skips noted as fair and witnessed. Connors also holds speed marks with a thousand in five minutes forty six seconds and two thousand in twelve minutes sixteen seconds.
Col Lewis M Clark, a renowned turf official, travels to South Africa to visit relatives. Summerfield and Miner, once an $80 000 winning Chicago bookmaking firm, has fallen from grace after losses in San Francisco. Hawthorne recalls their fall, while Little Rock faces a slim entry list for the upcoming racing meet though twenty seven entries appear for the Derby, including Captive, Lady Inez, Ben Eder, Forget, Kasmin, Beau Ideal and Utopia.
In Lenkenbad a famed Southern Swiss bath resort, visitors frequent society rooms for hours daily. Doctors prescribe short baths to suit ailments while men and women share common, modestly heated spaces. Conversations flow in French or the local tongue as attendants ensure comfort and amusement.
A ten year old Dampierre dog named Ripgolet, active against foxes, enters a fox burrow to chase a fox. The fight ends with the burrow caved in, leaving the dog buried. After twenty one days a miller hears a whine and helps rescuers dig out the dog alive.
The piece describes Lenkenbach a mountain hot spring resort with visitors from France Switzerland and Tyrol. It notes social scenes including matrons knitting couples chatting and games while men smoke and women host coffee gossip. Lenkenbach offers about twenty hot springs aiding rheumatism and liver trouble and dates back to the tenth century with a steady patient influx.
Five years of decline halve rents and population in Chinatown. From 25,000 residents to 15,000, with real estate unsalable and trade fading. Last China steamer sent 700 Chinamen home. most will not return. At current pace, Chinatown may drop below 10,000 in six months.
A Kansas paper notes Ada Batts has been granted a teaching certificate in Butler County. The item hints at a lively reaction if her name is announced in a girls' high school, predicting students may jump up on seats and create a moment of panic.
After five hours of active digging the dog Rigolet was unearthed from a deep burrow and appeared dead. His owner revived him with beef tea and milk, and the aged hound seemed fine again. There was debate if he had fasted twenty two days or eaten a fox though observers found no signs of recent prey.
A traveler recalls visiting Lewen valley villages in Alsace and Kirchberg where clocks are absent. Residents follow chimney smoke, train whistles at 4 p.m., dinner time, and church bells, with the parson allowing flexible hours and no fixed timetable.
In England and Wales the average yield of potatoes per acre is estimated at about six and one-fourth tons, the average yield in Scotland is rather less than six tons per acre, but in Theland the estimate shows an average yield per acre of less than four tons, against more than six tons in Great Britain.
An old man in London is accused of making burglars' implements known to police, yet he is not arrestable as his work supposedly complies with the law. He is said to have easy access to tracing his customers.
Melrose Connecticut claims to host one of the nation’s largest cider mills having used 35 000 barrels of apples last season. The mill has shipped its cider and vinegar to nearly every state in the union.
A Washington Post vignette blends verse and prose in a tale where a cross eyed man coaches a card game, the partner’s innocent question about which eye unsettles him, and the scene breaks up as a light moment turns awkward.
A historic survey catalogs odd fatal incidents from trivial causes such as a collar button abrasion, a hairpin puncture, cork swallowed, a fly bite, and pyrotechnic fright. It also cites physicians fame and famous deaths including Dr Beard and Abbe St Simon, plus cases from antiquity and a Welsh plot using postage stamps.
A two year old Virginia law criminalizing flirting near female schools failed to produce convictions. A Richmond college president pursued a case, and a border city attempted an ogling charge but withdrew to avoid exposing teachers and students.Law likely to be repealed.
A cross-eyed man at a northwest card party loudly claimed to know it all, annoying guests including a Boston girl. She resolved to “bowl him over” if a chance arose.
The farmer’s wife near Sergeant Bluff Iowa wandered onto a steel wolf trap on his prairie. She gripped one hand in the jaws and, unable to free herself, remained trapped for about thirty hours until a search party found her near death from pain and exposure.
A cattle herder near the Carson River Nevada killed four mountain lions that attacked his horse and doggedly pursued the beast when two other men rode up. He fired with a shotgun and the lions were chased and all four were shot. The horse was badly torn and had to be shot.
The article notes a paradox in eye motion when viewing a reflection in a mirror. It also describes Dr. Welwitsch’s travels near Cape Negro where a spider tree grows. Its four foot diameter trunk rises one foot high and bears two long leaves split into wind driven ribbons resembling spider legs.
A Brown county election winner Mrs D P Leslie vows to appoint only des serving persons. She makes her daughter chief deputy to test her faith in family integrity. Workers wonder how far her faith extends.
Two ninth or tenth century illuminated Hebrew Bible manuscripts were shown by Dr. Gaster to the Society of Biblical Archaeology in London. They originate from central Asia and are likely the oldest Hebrew Bible texts known. The margins feature gold rosettes and ornate borders of five colored lines surrounding the writing.
Miss Susan B. Anthony, a deft logician, answers congressmen who cited many women opposing suffrage. She quips that like political children objecting to school, the protesting women are merely political children, a pointed repartee that lands with effect.
The Marlborough title has four living duchesses: Consuelo the reigning duchess. Lillian Beresford, wife of Sir William Beresford. Fanny, grandmother of the present duke and mother of the late Randolph Churchill. and Jane, widow of the sixth duke. Lady Blandford is not included due to divorce before the late duke’s title.
Boston Transcript notes that Mississippi gambling operators are now subject to a five year penitentiary term, reflecting unusually drastic state treatment.
George Bretherton, a wealthy rancher, fell dead inside a Butte Montana church, and the body was removed as the sermon continued. Also noted is a 37 year old Brookville Maine lamp gift kept intact and in use.
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