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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1900
Page
8
An advertising notice proclaims a hair prep said to stop hair loss restore color cure dandruff and keep hair soft and glossy. The product Ayers Hate Vigor is described as economical with lasting use and priced at $1.00 per bottle with availability at all druggists.
The Imperial train from St. Petersburg is a luxury Russian built twenty carriage sedan for the Czars, featuring blue and gold carriages. It includes a kitchen, pantry, dining room, reception room, Czarina’s carriage with nursery, and separate apartments for the Czar, suite, and railway official. All carriages have telephone links and 3000 electric lamps.
The youngest sister of the Duke of Norfolk, Lady Margaret Howard, dies at 39 after a life of devoted service in east London. She and other ladies worked among poor girls in Whitechapel, living among the afflicted to aid them beyond mere charitable giving. Her loyalty to crown and country led her to back the Primrose League and the British constitution, serving on the Ladies' Grand Council alongside Lady Gwendoline Cecil in organizing and canvassing efforts.
Lord Ashbourne removed two Irish magistrates from office for anti British Boer war sentiment. One is Lord Emly a prominent nobleman who hinted Britain could face another Ladysmith in Ireland. The action follows a historic precedent involving Mr Gladstone and Lord Ross who lost a magistracy for similar utterances.
The advertisement promotes a free trial package of Zaegel's Swedish Essence of Life, claiming cures for rheumatism stomach liver and bowel complaints and other ailments. Readers are urged to write to M. R. Zaegel & Co. in Sheboygan Wisconsin with a 2 cent stamp for postage. The notice emphasizes global endorsements and immediate action.
A southern visitor recalls an old colored man who asks a watchmaker to fix the clock by changing only the clock hands. The man reveals the clock is at his house and insists the hands are the flaw. He distrusts the repair and asks for the hands back, seeking an honest tradesman.
Harper's Magazine opens a storied year with Mrs. Humphrey Ward's Eleanor and plans a celebration of its upcoming fifty year milestone. The issue promises serials by Israel Zangwill and Frank R Stockton plus contributions from Rudyard Kipling Mark Twain Gilbert Parker and other leading writers of the era.
The railroad showcases its facilities for tourists and travelers to Florida Cuba Porto Rico Central America and Nassau with double daily sleeping car services from Cincinnati Louisville Chicago and St Louis through Jacksonville to Florida points and to Miami Tampa and New Orleans with contact at J. K. Ridgely N. W. P. A. Chicago.
The volume and extent of savings banks are remarkable. At the start of the year deposits across the world approached 7,000,000,000 dollars, with about 4,600,000 individual depositors accounted for.
A Victorian advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for constitutional catarrh. It asserts internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, promises strength, and offers $100 to any case it fails to cure, with testimonials available and a note on Hall's Family Pills.
A Baltimore News quip captures a flirtatious exchange where a man pleads love and asks to be called by a nickname, while the woman replies the best she can do is call him down.
An advertisement touts SLOCUMS ANTI-DYSPEPTIC WORM CAKES with a positive guarantee and 25 cent price. It also promotes The January Century New Year's number with Will Bradley cover, featuring Kipling poem and new stories, a new novelette start, and illustrated articles on Antarctic discoveries.
Harper's Weekly offers the best illustrated record of all valued subjects. The 1900 volume maintains its long standing position after more than four decades of publication. Ten cents per copy and four dollars for a yearly subscription.
An opinion piece contrasts a charming woman Nan with her failed studies and a quest to rise socially. The verse lampoons intellect versus charm, ending with a quip about a candidate being seen as logical or merely argumentative.
A fragment from the Indianapolis Journal portrays a concerned child warning that Bobby is staging a circus and intends to make the baby dive off the mantel, capturing a domestic moment with tense humor.
A collage of light verse and cartoon captions from early 20th century papers. Fragments include exchanges on education and destiny, jokes about manners, and satirical exchanges reflecting social themes of the era.
An assortment of travel offers, solicitations, and general ads appears. It lists Western rail contacts, job notices, and health remedies, including patent medicines and infant care products, with scattered personal testimonials and marketing lines.
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