17 Jan 1896
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1896
Page
1
A collage of opinions and aphorisms touching war readiness in Canada, jailer critiques in New York and Louisville, St Louis climate, aging figures like Gladstone, and admonitions on character. The piece interleaves reflections on empires, trade, arbitration, and moral maxims with fables about bees, worms, and parental guidance.
In Philadelphia shipping circles it is stated operators of the Siberian railroad now under construction from the Black Sea to Vladivostok placed a large order for locomotives in Philadelphia. The Turret Bell was chartered to land the first cargo in February. When finished the line will span 7,500 miles and open the region, enabling cheaper shipment of Pacific goods to the Black Sea districts.
Report from Kentucky notes a global tobacco trade shift and a collapse of the world’s largest tobacco planter. The piece argues only Russia can salvage Christian provinces under Turkish misrule, as England declines and other powers fail. Rumors suggest Russia will soon be allowed to act.
A Brooklyn New York physician Dr William DeKraft is imprisoned in Bellevue amid a web of civil and criminal actions accusing him of defrauding victims of nearly $100,000. He ran an Electropathic Institute at 30 West Thirtieth Street, faces perjury charges from bankruptcy proceedings, and has aroused multiple lawsuits. creditors listed in a discharge petition deny any loans.
In New Haven Connecticut eight year old Helen Walsh was seized from a street, but her sister pursued in a buggy and with police help the kidnapper James Flannagan, an 18 year old wagon boy, was captured after a chase. Helen was recovered unharmed and returned home.
A wealthy Boston architect’s widow hosted a summer dinner in Hamburg that cost $60 for five guests. She, tall and handsome, has drawn the prince’s friendship since meeting him at an English country house years ago. Her late husband left her nearly a million dollars and she and her mother are known in New York and Boston society.
A woman recalls a prompt personal reply from the Prince and notes that her daughter’s dinner with him cost only sixty dollars. The account mentions the mother’s wide circle of friends and how the acquaintance was revealed.
A biographical sketch recounts James A. Garfield nearly drowning when he fell from a canal boat and clung to a rope, a moment said to have influenced his rise to become the twentieth U S president. It details his poverty born, early labor, and initial naval ambitions met with family opposition. Garfield’s canal boat period included a short stint as a mule driver on the Evening Star under Capt. Amos Letcher.
Lieutenants Davis and Potter of the United States Army, with guides Barney Weaver and John Goldy, endured a perilous river trip from Black Canyon to Yuma. Their keel boat capsized after seventeen miles, yet all four men escaped unharmed and found safety despite rocks, wreckage, and raging rapids.
Capt. Berkeley Macauley U S A post surgeon at Fort Apache Arizona has sent to the University of Pennsylvania Museum notable White Mountain Apache objects. Included are a hollowed stone grinding cobble a fine braided grass carrying basket buckskin fringe and photographs showing an Apache woman at work and girls with baskets. The New York World printed a group of these pictures earlier.
The article notes Tokyo hosts fifty daily journals, a quarter century after Japan's first newspaper. It explains typographic challenge with about 4,000 type varieties per printer. Compositors are aided by boys who call out required types. Each compositor sets lines vertically in columns rather than across the page.
A Massachusetts manufacturing firm paid workers 700 ten dollar notes marked for identification on a Saturday night. By Tuesday, 410 notes were banked by town saloon keepers, while over four thousand dollars passed from workers to passers by, leaving the workers with headaches and poverty at home.
Four ragged men, deprived of provisions, were forced to descend a canyon, travel along narrow sheep trails, and brave a cliffside chasm. After days of peril they reached Hackberry station to rest before resuming toward Needles and a voyage to Yuma.
The Grafton Record editor Pierce attempted to carry two stovepipe joints home on a bicycle, prompting his wife to ribbon him with court-plaster over his missing epidermis while praising his character yet noting he sometimes “fire” too high.
The late George Augustus Sala criticized American desserts, noting during his last visit that only the pie had deteriorated in the country. He condemned the state of pies and other desserts during his comments on American cuisine.
The column surveys trends from Marlborough including smaller sleeve silhouettes on swell gowns and re splendant opera costumes adorned with spangles. It mentions Dresden clock accents for ladies’ boudoirs and notes infant clothing trends with trimmed oaks and high bonnets as marks of status. The piece also comments on confectionery flavors, French varieties, and oversized French dolls affecting perceptions of live babies beside tall Bilt structures.
John V Crum rose from Bedford Iowa to national sprint prominence during the 1892 season and beyond. A five year Iowa State University athlete and later a lawyer, Crum trained under Edward W Moulton and earned multiple titles across state and varsity meets, including rapid improvements, field meet records, and international competition against London Athletes Club and New York Athletic Club.
A New York series of lectures by Miss Kathryn Staley on physical culture promotes home gym routines for women. The guidance covers posture, equilibrium, and safe practices, including leg circles and prone torso lifts, to strengthen hips abdomen and back. Exercises begin after removing the corset and are done in loose robes, fifteen minutes morning and night, with systematic practice.
Edward M. Roth of Chicago earns the gold medal this month. Roth, member of the Clarendon Wheelmen, has ridden more centuries than any other rider in the city, marking a record season of long-distance cycling.
Aaron Rhoades argues in Sporting Life for a unified minor leagues body independent of the National League to control players and combat a blacklist. Such a coalition would force the majors to negotiate on fair value, with Byrne Brush and Van der Ahe cited as key figures.
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