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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1901
Page
1
Marriages in Hindoostan are arranged by parents. The couple may meet briefly. the bride sits beside the groom as the priest ties a corner of the bride's rail to the groom's shawl, completing the union.
In Australia a new idea invites the man who does not dance to be barred from the supper room. Women carry perforated paper coupons, one per dance, and hand them to partners after each dance. Men unable to provide a fair share of coupons lose admission to the dining area.
A Salem store owner demanded eviction but was met by his tenant who flashed a constable badge and ordered the landlord to leave under threat of arrest for trespass. The startled landlord complied and departed.
Rabbi Jacob David Wilowski, renowned talmudist and head of a Sluzh congregation in Russia, lectures in New York and will later speak in Chicago. He has gained literary fame through eighteen volumes of commentaries on the Jewish version of the talmud.
Mexico buys more American books than France and nearly as many as Germany. The demand stems from a large resident American population in Mexican cities and mining camps, plus the spread of English among Mexicans.
A bust of Louisa M. Alcott, funded and sculpted by Frank Edwin Elwell, was unveiled at the University of Kansas. Alcott, noted for popular tales, also active against the Kansas Nebraska bill. Elwell studied art under Alcott’s sister in Concord, Massachusetts.
A Long Island mother has twice applied to a police court for papers to force her son to appear before a magistrate for alleged disorderly conduct. She claims he refuses to work and spends daytime hours playing golf.
Illinois, third in population, ranks as the greatest railroad state with nearly 11 000 miles of track. New York leads in population but sits seventh in railroad miles, while Pennsylvania is second in both population and tracks.
Statistical review shows only 271 divorces granted in Canada over 32 years. Parliament handles most divorce cases and petitioners avoid formal proceedings across the border.
A portrait of Mrs Lon V Stephens is hung in the Missouri executive mansion at Jefferson City. She becomes the first wife or female relative to be profiled among residents’ portraits, alongside former governors.
Master Eddie Rehberg, son of F. H. Rehberg, is very seriously ill with pneumonia. Visitors include Mr. M. H. Clark and wife of Covington Indiana and their daughter Mrs. Millspaugh. Henry Reichner hosted a reception and dance for friends from Moreland and Austin. Albert Nafziger purchased the Geo. Koch & Co. drug business. Local youths vandalized a porch on Austin Avenue last Monday. RHEBERG HALL announces a grand mask ball on Jan 26 with two gold medals for cake walk and waltzing. SalHe Catlin to sing Dear Midnight of Love. Medalists from Jan 5 class include Grace Rodgers Ellen Hjorth Irene Kennedy Mabel Littleward. The poem fragment closes with Theodosia Pickering Garrison.
Rt Rev Brooke Foss Westcott bishop of Durham earns 35000 dollars monthly? He donates more than two thirds to charity and remains a favorite of the Prince of Wales who quips that only three people may lecture him namely his mother his wife and the bishop of Durham.
In Waterford Ireland the constituency represented by John Redmond has 2500 electors disfranchised for nonpayment of rates from a total 3007 on the 1899 register. After accounting for deaths, fewer than 300 remain eligible to vote.
In Bensonhurst a luxury hideaway stirs controversy as Gus Ruhlin buys a Queen Anne cottage and plans to reside there. Fitzsimmons already lives nearby and Jim Corbett is expected to move in, unsettling the ultraexclusive community.
Col John C Eddy and his brother Maj William H Eddy have 25 years in the New York militia and may receive early retirement next year. Both officers belong to a Brooklyn manufacturing firm.
Recent Galveston real estate sales show current property values at about half the figures that prevailed before the storm.
Literary note highlights include Joseph Chamberlain on England's future and Admiral Dewey, General Miles on youth in the navy and army. W H Crane writes rural drama, Zelle de Tussan on music as education, and Edison, Marconi, Jordan, and others discuss America fifty years hence. Cover depicts James Gordon Bennett's start in a Wall Street cellar.
Albert Nafziger announces as successor to Geo Koch & Co at the corner of Indiana street and North Forty eighth avenue. New stock of fresh drugs and careful compounding with high quality drugs and chemicals. Night calls promptly answered. Soliciting patronage.
Guaranteed first mortgages offered from $500 to $2,500 at 6 percent interest. Principal and interest guaranteed and payable in gold coin by Harlem Savings Bank located at 105 Madison St Harlem Tl.
In NQBY Illinois on November 6 1900 a reader writes of ailing and run down condition and says a friend advised a Female Tonic. After one bottle the writer took five more and claims it did more than three years of doctoring. The note ends with sale by druggists.
John Carster confronts heartbreak over wealth and love with Helen. He argues that money would not win her, while she reveals she will not marry the wealthy suitor. He confesses his own poverty yet offers love and asks her to accept it, and she agrees at sunset.
A fragment cites a minister preaching against social extravagance and derision among women, noting mortified reactions. The item shows tension over propriety and public behavior in a church or press circle.
A New Jersey woman, described as the last of the chorus that sang and allowed flowers in the path of Lafayette, has died. The Baltimore American calls this a testament to the nation’s progress from a revolted colony to a leading global power.
William Court Gully has been chosen for a third term as speaker. The role carries a $25,000 salary and a $20,000 annual pension after retirement, with a peerage and a grand mansion provided for entertaining.
Mischief at John Anschutz dairy farm in Stowe Township Pennsylvania. A white bull named Dexter charged after pranksters placed red spectacles on it. The barn side was knocked in and a fence damaged. a milk maid narrowly escaped injury as the bull was put out of action for repairs.
The article notes Belgian law requiring every bovine animal older than three months to wear an ear ring with a metal tag bearing a number. The measure aims to maintain an exact annual count of cattle.
The Boston Herald notes the debut of three Cryder sisters at a New York society ball at the Waldorf Astoria. Triplets are rare and their trio offers a novel diversion in the debutante whirl among prominent social circles.
Lord Curzon thanks the Lord Provost of Glasgow for the £65,000 contributed by Glasgow citizens to the Indian Famine Fund. He notes this sum exceeds all other gifts except the Lord Mayor of London's Fund.
The ancient inks resembled black paint and used abundant gum, causing letters to stand up in relief on parchment as if embossed.
Identification by finger marks is introduced in the Johannesburg police department's system of identification to register every native person. The method aims to provide a reliable basis for individual identity records and improves registration practices across the force.
The president resists efforts by automobile makers to provide horseless carriages for his stable needs. Despite many Washington officials using automobiles, he remains loyal to horses and avoids motor vehicles and elaborate gifts.
Omaha financiers propose a tunnel 80 miles west of Denver and 123 miles south of Georgetown to run 7000 feet long and 1700 feet deep from a base near Grant to the Snake River headwaters. The scheme aims to aid mining by an electric road through the divide.
Prof. Giovanni Schiaparelli, director of Brera Observatory Milan, retires after forty two years of service. Celebrated for his discovery of Mars canals and noted for his studies of meteorites double stars and Mercury.
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