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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1899
Page
8
J. Legge is named terminal agent of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Washington D C in charge of passenger and freight stations and will begin duties January 1. A veteran B and O official, he previously mentored the fourth and fifth divisions and oversaw the Washington terminals from 1884 to 18.
Art dealer Mr. Packingham boasts the $50 frame cost after compliment from a guest, highlighting the high price people pay for presentation. The exchange captures a moment of pride over framing as a measure of value in the gallery.
An old advertisement touts Lane's Family Medicine as essential for daily bowel movements to stay healthy. It claims gentle action on the liver and kidneys and a remedy for headaches, priced at 25 and 50.
Explorers discover a loaf of bread in Syria claimed to be baked around 600 years before Christ. The find is noted amid other historical curiosities and antiquities in the region.
Assistant Surgeon J A Guthrie of the U S Navy told the American Medical Association that silence on board ships reduces noise and improves accuracy. He cited landlocked harbors troubled by whistles and urged quiet signals in war and peace, noting silent command reduces confusion compared with shouted orders.
The German route between Elberfeld and Barmen plans an overhead electric system where cars hang from an elevated framework. Each car seats 50 to 60 passengers and runs on two rails with movable trunnions for speed and curves. The line aims for about 25 miles per hour, with automatic safety devices and double tracking, costing millions.
A fragmentary poem notes a couple slipping away in the dark to avoid pursuit and asserts their two hearts beat as one, presenting a romantic image of clandestine union.
A Transvaal arrest reveals Charles George Archibald Hamilton, once reported dead in a duel and buried under a false name, reemerging to claim the Hamilton dukedom. The Irish Times text traces a long line of aristocratic intrigue from the dukes of Hamilton, with the latest claimant detailing his self and past alias. The case links to a 19th century duel, a mysterious death rumor, and a fraud charge tying the claimant to the Transvaal incident.
A writer in the British Central Africa Gazette describes pushing his bicycle up a hill when a heavy animal forced through the bush. A full grown lion, broadside on, pursued him along a two mile road from the main line to his plantation after he barely escaped by riding through a culvert and continuing at high speed.
A witty exchange dismisses rumors about the Wigglehams. They deny any skeleton in their closet and mock the idea, insisting their flat lacks space or reason for such a claim.
A clever contrivance uses hairpins, small rods, and colored ribbon to curl straight hair without transforming appearance. Hair is wound on a pin with ribbon, ends tied in a bow, and the pin removed to leave hair styled on ribbon.
An advertisement touts Cascarets for natural bowel and kidney action, microbe destruction, headache relief, and relief from billiousness and constipation. It notes druggists carry the product and comments on Turkish burial customs with cemetery headstones.
A collage of medical ads and quips touts cold cures and tonics. Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets promise refunds if ineffective. Piso’s Cure and Doe’s Cough Balsam are praised. Quotes from individuals claim health and moral insights alongside miscellaneous proverbs and product pitches.
The item notes an odd disturbance at a lecture titled Grip a Malady of the Imagination by Prof Hardhead. Diddereau questions attendance while the audience murmurs Why not Down with the grip in a New York Weekly citation.
An old advertisement touts Kemp's Valsam as a quick cough cure with a free sample bottle offered by druggists. It mentions 20 and 60 cent bottle sizes and warns that delays are dangerous. A separate line claims Japanese people are the cleanest in the world.
Mrs Patrick Dangray of West Winsted Connecticut reports recovering from female weakness and womb displacement after using Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound. She describes relief from insomnia pain bloating and fainting and says she can sleep work without fatigue. She credits Pinkham and the medicine.
Miss Gertie Dunein of Franklin Nebraska reports long pain from irregular menstruation and womb descent. After trying physicians she used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and says it transformed her health and she would not part with the medicine.
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