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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1900
Page
2
Content highlights community notices about newspaper deliveries and subscriptions, local governance, finances, and civic figures. Mentions The Vindicator address in Austin, Berwyn Current anniversary, Cicero appropriations, fire house mortgage, and political notes on Oak Park and Proviso elections. Also references Austin Blind Pig figure John Twohey and pension certificate forgeries.
Cicero faces a 50 000 shortfall after a 2 percent tax levy would yield about 86 000. Town officials say even full collections won’t cover fixed town expenses, prompting consideration of annexation to Chicago if feasible.
Last week a brick from a Norton rolling mill demolition struck Frank Milbern, a wrecking company employee, from a height of sixty five feet. He was taken to Passavanant Memorial Hospital where Dr Livingstone removed a three by three inch skull fragment and he is now recovering.
Ruth Pierce gave a well attended reading last Friday evening praised for artistry. She was helped by May F. Carpenter of Oak Park now studying at Butler College who performed a piano piece. Carpenter is a graduate of W. CG. E Looboeck, Jesse L. Gaynor and William Nelson Burnett. Also Geo. Bass, a violinist who has won several distinctions including the Chicago Conservatory diamond medal.
The 1900 election on Tuesday November 6th will choose twenty four presidential electors governor lieutenant governor secretary of state state treasurer attorney general and three state university trustees. Each of the twenty two congressional districts elects a congressman and a state board of equalization member. Senate districts twenty five even numbered elect a state senator. Fifty one senate districts supply three house members. One hundred two counties elect a circuit clerk state’s attorney coroner and a surveyor.
A concise report notes Kroger broke a record while a correspondent points out an existing gap. It mentions a prior ultimatum received by Great Britain as a notable first in this context.
On December 29 1899 Prof Newell J Gilbert and wife were surprised at the church parlors by friends including their pastor. Deacon E S Osgood presented a china dinner set of over 100 pieces. Gilbert spoke for the couple as L P De Sale sang a solo. Refreshments followed.
The Austin chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star held a Thursday evening installation at Masonic Hall. Officers installed included Worthy Matron Dr Fanny M Rowley and Worthy Patron James Gardiner, with a banquet served by past matrons and patrons afterward.
Theodore Thompson aged 18 died January 3 at his father 5814 Iowa Street from septic crebritis. He worked for Mandel Bros on delivery wagon and funeral was at home with Forest Home interment. Caroline Kenegy aged 73 died January 3 at her daughter Mrs C C Carr’s home 227 North Harvey. Born in Pennsylvania she lived in Illinois over forty years. funeral Saturday at 2 p.m. with Forest Home burial.
Officers were elected Thursday afternoon December 28 at the Sherman House meeting of the Western Michigan Summer Resort Association. The group aims to secure better transportation accommodations for resort feeders. Membership is limited to resorts between Manistee and Bass Lake, with an executive committee from each resort. Elected officers include President BE. KE. Roberts, Vice-President George Birkhoff Jr, and Secretary-Treasurer Ir. L. Race.
Charitably disposed readers in Austin are urged to aid a young man at the Park Hotel who is without income, ill, and harmed by circumstances that jeopardize his care if sent to the County Hospital. Ames Pierce notes the harsh politics and graft surrounding public care.
The Austin Chess Club met December 28 with a full house. Mr. Hichorn of Chicago attended. The next meeting is planned for Thursday January 11 at 7 30 p m at 417 North Fifty Third Avenue, the residence of Mr N Gallup. Visitors welcome. N Nelson secretary.
The Austin Business Men's Association will hold its regular meeting next Wednesday night January 10 in the Masonic building. The program includes installation of officers for the ensuing year lunch stereopticon views and speech making. Many business men not yet identified with the association will attend and a good time is expected.
The Northwestern University Male Quartet will present an evening of entertainment at Library Hall in Austin for the new Methodist Church benefit under the Ep worth League. Tickets cost 25 cents and admission promises a high grade program.
A fragment listing the Austin Office of the Vindicator located at 5602 South Boulevard. No additional context or events are readable.
The Cicero town board passes sidewalk ordinances on Garfield avenue Harrison street Twelfth street and Harvard street in the Town of Cicero and authorizes vacating John Carne's subdivision property upon cost payment. It rescinds a warrant for the Austin State Bank and schedules the next meeting for January 6 at 4 PM.
Oak Park notes report a Third Congregational Church meeting on Jan 8 to discuss organized labor relations and a Sesame Circle lecture on Leonardo da Vinci on Jan 9. The list of unclaimed letters includes many names and local businesses, followed by news of a New Year dinner by the Ladies Aid Society of the Austin Methodist Church, which netted over one hundred dollars.
Pierson drug store reports strong sales of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy under Manager Martin. The product is praised for quick relief from coughing sore throat and lung soreness during grip season and is carried by Traill & Cooling.
Notice to the Oaks members advertising mandolin guitar and banjo lessons by H F Meyers every Monday from 2 to 8 at the Oaks Club House The notice invites interested members to call on instructors and mentions Atheneum Building room 418 at 26 East Van Buren Street for group lessons or time and place details.
An offer promotes free scholarships via light home writing for Draughon's Practical Business Colleges in Nashville St Louis Little Rock Fort Worth Galveston Shreveport or Savannah with details from Illustrated Youth and Age Nashville Tenn. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is praised as a preventive and cure for croup with endorsements from M W Fisher Liberty W Va and sold by Traill & Cooling druggists.
F. M. Ross of Winfield Tennessee credits his wife with saving his life through Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption after a severe cough worsened under medical care The medicine claims cures for coughs colds bronchitis la grippe pneumonia asthma hay fever and chest throat lung ailments with trials offered at local drug stores Traill Cooling Chas P Miller.
WANTED SEVERAL BRIGHT and honest persons to represent us as managers in this and close-by counties. Salary $900 a year and expenses. Straight bona fide no more no less salary. It is mainly office work conducted at home. Reference enclose self addressed stamped envelope. The Dominion Company Dept. 3 Chicago.
A local shopper column extols Your Home Merchants as dependable and deserving support from the community. It praises consistent service, fair prices, and trusted staff, encouraging continued patronage.
Women of cleanly habits wash their corsets every few weeks without spoiling their shape. Use warm suds with ammonia, scrub on a flat table, rinse in warm water, then dry on a board in the sun. Do not iron or remove the stays unless removing laces aids cleanliness.
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