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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1901
Page
3
Gladys endures heartbreak as Harvey sides with Helen in a power struggle over the Atherton estate. Phebe rescues limits with a sharp rebuke, forcing a temporary truce. Gladys, isolated in her parlor, mourns lost affection and pines for the child she cannot hold.
Gladys reflects on a stern letter from Mrs Leonard and the strained bonds with Helen and Harvey. Harvey resists third party interference while Helen clings to control as Gladys plots solace from solitude before an autumn twilight ending in a quiet, unresolved moment.
Washington signs a Spanish American convention transferring Cagayen and Cibotu islands to the United States for 100 000 dollars. Located at the southern tip of the Sulu archipelago, they lie near the China, Sulu and Celebes sea routes and were treated as part of the Philippines under the Paris treaty. The extra payment reflects the misalignment of treaty boundaries and maps, bringing the archipelago’s total price to about 20 100 000 dollars.
An Austrian army officer invents small balloons to lift both men and horses across a river. Balloons will attach to belts for people and to horse harnesses for animal crossings.
Bellemead New Jersey hosts a model factory town under Dr. Josiah Strong and William H. Tolman of the League for Social Service. Land owned by William J. Robinson is laid out with factory sites, public buildings, homes, parks, and gardens for workers. Free factory sites are offered as social reforms are planned to be self supporting.
Miss Henrietta Crossman, recently starring in Neil Gwyn at the Savoy in New York, stepped before the curtain and announced the play would not go on. She blamed petty persecutions by the managers Klaw and Erlanger, who now control the Savoy.
The passage notes a declining trend 1895 to 1899 with a rise to 8 275 this year and predicts harsher times at century's start. It laments rising homicide and lynching, citing Rudyard Kipling on murder as the national crime.
The last annual interior report notes high death rates in Ponce and Adjuntas due to anaemia from poor nutrition and unsanitary conditions. Surgeon Williams under the military regime corroborates grim accounts of starving laborers, stating some households faced hunger despite relief efforts.
Providence reports missing Yale alumnus Robert Callender from the class of 1898, age 24, 6 feet 7 inches tall, 155 pounds, with brown curling hair and light brown eyes. His father, Walter Callender, offers a $500 reward for information on his whereabouts. last seen on New Year’s Eve in Providence wearing a black derby, dark sack suit, overcoat, and a gold seal ring on his little finger, carrying a gold hunting case watch.
The piece profiles Mrs. Reber daughter of Gen Miles known as Miss Miles for her work aiding sick soldiers in New York. It contrasts her reform zeal with a Wichita incident where a lone woman wrecked a hotel bar and was escorted to jail by police amid public sympathy from backers including governors.
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