Local Notes and Reflections From Oak Park Cicero Area
Editor William Halley notes Oak Park Cicero facts including population 13000 and proximity to Chicago. Mentions oyster dealer Shellem and agricultural data. Reports on Chicago school enrollments and teachers, Australia wheat imports, Union Indiana contract enforcing shaving for Bryan, and American railroad influence in China.
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William Halley
Oak Park
Cicero
China
Flowery Kingdom
Cat Rivalry Ends in Fatal Vow of Love
A Missouri affair ends when George Fleischmann kills a cat over Stella Davis who prefers the cat to him. The Boston Transcript laments Maine game shooting, noting tabulated moose and caribou slaughter and rising cash from shipments.
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George Fleischmann
Stella Davis
Missouri
Boston Transcript
Maine
The
Transcript
Bishop Potter Clears Labor in Strikes Arbitration
Bishop Potter of New York, acting as arbiter in four major strikes over eighteen months, credits laboring men with better manners and dignity in listening to opponents. He says his impartial view favors workers and urges good manners and fairness to reconcile labor and capital.
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Bishop Potter
New York
Bribery Ruse Highlighted by Statesman Election Fallout
A prominent statesman condemns a roundabout bribery method exposed in a recent national election. The piece recalls Pepys who described a risky half truth in a diary entry about receiving money, noting he kept the money hidden until at home, then confronted the evidence.
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Pepy
Captain Grove
Omission in Legal Steps For President Elect Notified
The article notes a gap in federal law failing to notify a president elect officially. Electoral votes are counted and recorded in Congress journals, but the president elect learns the result through newspapers, a situation seen as inadequate for proper transition.
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Congress
Republic
Fishermen’s Genealogies and a Boat Builder Named Wright
In rural England long ago families kept no surname knowledge. Mr. Thomas Rigby seeks Richard Wright boat builder in Little Haws Lancashire coast. A grey old man reveals the name Aud Vessie and Wright’s three brothers Kessie Bessie Bummie Buss.
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Kendall Perry
England
St. George’s Channel
Lancashire
Thomas Rigby
Richard Wright
Kersey
Linsey
Mr. Wright
Kessie
Bessie
Bummie
Buss
Curiously worded London ads raise a smile in prize list
The London periodical published a selection of humorous notices. Among the lines are a frontier of oddities such as a piano advertised as the property of a musician with carved legs and a widow seeking to marry two sons, reflecting playful wordplay and quirky social ads.
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London
Iere
Jim
New York
Brown
Highgate Archway
Fad of silhouettes grows with living portraits
A writer notes a fashionable pastime of creating silhouettes from guests. Hosts use black paper, white cardboard, and candlelight to cast profiles for tracing. Traced shadows are cut out and pasted on cardboard, producing larger lifelike profiles.
Tailor Questions Dumiley Change After Incident
A tall man asks if there is any change in Dumiley while the tailor, who is unnamed, replies tersely that he notices none. The dialogue snippet appears in the Rockland Tribune.
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Dumley
Dumiley
Rockland Tribune
Woolen Garments Warmth and Fit Warned by Parent Advice
A mother counsels that shrunken woolen clothes offer poor protection for children. She notes loosely woven garments are warmer than tight weaves and loose fits retain more warmth than closely woven ones.
Red Dominates Winter Dress Across Hats and Gowns
Red becomes the defining shade for the season with crimson accents in hats, dress linings, wraps, and gowns, signaling a bold style trend for winter attire.
The Indian Famine and Its Grim Transport Barriers
A historical overview notes recurring famines in northern India, detailing crop failures, mass starvation, and cruel punishment for debt. It traces relief efforts from British rule, highlighting limited pre-railway aid, later expansion of rail lines, and the role of monsoons in farming viability.
A Rock-Boring Shellfish Pholas Bores Limestone Holes
A St Louis Republic summary notes the terazor shell Pholas, a mollusk that drills holes in solid rock. Found in Mediterranean shores and Italy, its boring method is debated with grinding favored by most naturalists while no observer has captured it at work.
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Mediterranean
Italy
St. Louis Republic
Kipling Chooses Devonshire for New Home
Rudyard Kipling has reportedly left Vermont and may settle in Devonshire England. He arrived in Torquay two months ago and, after a favorable stay in St Marychurch, shows a likelihood of remaining in Devonshire despite hilly poor roads.
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Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Vermont
Devonshire
Surrey
Sussex
Mr. Kipling
Phonograph translated into electric sensations for the deaf
Prof Mc Kendrick in England has devised a device that converts phonograph variations into changes in a weak electric current. When the current is felt through moistened hands, the rhythm and character of sounds can be perceived by someone who is totally deaf, enabling understanding without hearing.
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Desf
McKendrick
England
Strange Happenings In Old Copper Mine Cave
An Indiana man reportedly haunted North Arlington New Jersey by living in an unused shaft of an old copper mine. Mayor George Baylis found a stove and breakfast remnants in a cave used as a den and suspects the resident, described as a wild man about 40 with a full beard, is a thief who evades capture.
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Heden
North Arlington
N. J
George Baylis
James Sickles
Arlington Cemetery
Baylis
Sickles
Bayls
Unfilled Grave Mystery at Kokomo
In Kokomo Indiana William Phillips a former local resident and Kokomo Tribune proprietor was missing. A man died in Huntington and was misidentified as Phillips leading to a prepared funeral that was halted when the error was found. The buried grave was filled and the true Phillips remains unidentified while the missing man's whereabouts remain unknown.
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Kokomo
William Phillips
Ind
Huntington
A. F. Phillips
Telegraph
The
Kansas City World
Sexton
Mark McTigue
Phillips
Disgraceful death of distillery horse triggers odd tale
A valuable distillery saddle horse named Old Dick at Rodenberg Distilling in Lawrenceburg Indiana refused retirement and leaped from a cart into the Big Four track, breaking its neck. The incident follows a pattern of ill will and misfortune after a new horse replaced him.
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Rodenberg Distilling Company
Lawrenceburg
Ind
Fourth Street
Forgotten Prisoner Found in Madison County Jail
The Madison County board of charities uncovered George Stinnett, a man without friends or relatives, living almost three years in jail without a formal charge. Placed during an epileptic fit for safe keeping two and a half years ago, he was barred from the state asylum for the insane and has since withered in a cell among criminals.
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Eagle Lake
Knox
Ind
Election Schoolhouse
Washington Township
Board of Charities
Anderson
Madison County
George Stinnett
Queer Result of Injury in Eckerly Case
Powell Witherspoon of Eckerly Indiana fractured skull in October during a melee. Though death was foreseen he recovered enough to function but forgets nearly all past knowledge except reading and writing. He failed to recognize his wife and family for a time and only recalls acquaintances after days. He now enjoys reading children's school books and literature for young readers.
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India
America
Hindoostan
Paris
Persia
Powell Witherspoon
Eckerly
Ind
Lizzie Borden Ready to Wed Gardiner of Swansea
Friends of Lizzie A Borden of Fall River Mass congratule her on an approaching marriage to Gardiner a Swansea school teacher longtime friend. She has ordered a costly trousseau and Gardiner built a fine new house in South Somerset. The wedding is expected about Christmas.
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Lizzie Borden
Lizzie A. Borden
Fall River
Mass
Mr. Gardiner
Swansea
Miss Borden
Gardiner
South
Somerset
Weather Quip Delights London Tid Bits Readers
In a witty exchange from London Tid Bits a professor is asked for the most reliable weather reason and replies with a single word thunder. The quip reflects lighthearted newsroom humor about meteorology and daily forecasts.
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London
Signs of the Planets Horoscopes Readings for Betsey
Prof Cunningham, offering free astrological readings, says readers must provide full birth details including date, hour, place, sex, color, and sender name. This week Betsey of Monroe, Mich is described as Taurus Gemini mix with Venus Mercury ruling, tallish with dark features, energetic and ambitious, facing obstacles but likely to rise and become wealthy if money is managed well.
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G. W. Cunningham
Clinton Street
Chicago
Betsey
Monroe
Mich
Venus
Mercury
Astrological profile for a Webster City man
Data suggest Leo rising with Sun Mercury and Venus on the ascendant. The subject is medium height with light complexion and hair, likely early baldness, ambitious and energetic, in a leading position, gifted in language, a capable orator, and popular with women.
Virgo rising traits and future wealth warning
The text describes a Virgo rising individual from Dubuque Iowa with a medium build and dark features. It highlights a reserved nature, early bashfulness, sociability with many friends, talent in the arts, fluent language, and popular standing with women. It cautions against hazardous speculation and notes difficulty in retaining wealth after earning it.
Zodiac portrait for Gertrude of St Joseph Missouri
A zodiac based profile for Gertrude of St Joseph Missouri notes Cancer rising, a medium height and well proportioned build, fair complexion and light eyes. It describes emotional nature, quick mood changes, nonrobust constitution, tendency to feverish illness and headaches, strong will, and potential mediumistic abilities if pursued.
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Moon
Echophone offers talking machine with Leslie's Weekly deal
Advert shows Echophone phonograph driven by clockwork priced at seven dollars plus subscription of Leslie's Weekly for a year. One record included with each unit and extra records 50 cents. If unsatisfied, money refunded. Leslie's Weekly at 100 dollars yearly, Echophone 19 dollars. Targeted to gain 250,009 subscribers via bundled sale from LESLIE'S WEEKLY in New York City.
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Edison
Leslie
Weekly
America
Echophone
Leslie’s Weekly
Fifth Avenue
New York City
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Boston
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Atchison
Rolla
Australia
Canada
A. L. Doris
Union
Bryan
Indus
Ganges
Bengal
Texas
Indian Ocean
Great Britain
Delhi
Indiana
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Wind- Bar
Ont
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Her Majesty’s Customs House
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Dubuque
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