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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1901
Page
4
Mrs Cushman Davis has returned to Washington to compile her late husband's works on law politics diplomacy literature and public lectures. She will be assisted by Bishop Hurst a longtime friend of the late Senator Davis from the Methodist church.
Abram Rothmyer, an aged eccentric of Sharon, Pennsylvania, feared grave robbers would steal his body after death. He had a heavy metal coffin made and stored at home. One evening while moving it the casket fell on him, fatally injuring him.
Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Fitzgerald of Danville Virginia deed their north Dan River property valued at $20,000 to the Danville Orphanage as a permanent gift for a home.
In thirteenth and fourteenth century France apprenticeship was carefully regulated. Masters were responsible for feeding clothing and sheltering their youths and even shaping morals. Though rules were strict and often enforced with severity, many apprentices found lifelong loyalty to their master and stayed on as paid helpers after gaining their freedom.
The sponge’s surface bears holes larger at the top than the bottom. A channel system runs through the mass and water flows continually via hairlike appendages. The incoming water brings food to sustain the sponge as the polyps agitate it.
Vermont had thirty three cigar factories in 1900 using 45 215 pounds of tobacco to produce 2 132 476 cigars. Each thousand cigars weighed about three pounds, reflecting the era's manufacturing scale and local industry reach.
King Oscar of Sweden and Norway donated 10,000 kroners to assist archaeologists Dr. J Kjellberg in Asia Minor and the Island of Lesbos, supporting ongoing research efforts and discoveries in these regions.
Vaccination drives, illnesses, births, and recoveries fill the Moreland notices. A new baby girl born Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. Gus Johnson. James Camp recovering from diphtheria. Lulu Norton with mumps. Mrs. Anderson recovering from la grippe. Local revival meetings start Jan 27 at M Church Sayles Hall. Protests rise over North Forty-eighth Avenue traffic. a dead dog sparks citizen discontent at Forty-eighth and Indiana. Zeller welcomes a daughter born Jan 15. Ella Sorg's fall causes a nervous shock but not serious injury at Lundin’s. A ball hosted by the American Fraternal League on Feb 9. Business moves include C W Smith purchasing Malkowsky’s confectionery. several new Fulton street developments and flats underway. Arc builds and investments expanding along Forty-eighth to Forty-ninth avenues.
A collection of aphorisms from the Chicago News notes the limits of wealth and time in daily life. It muses that men resemble clocks, spendthrifts move quickly, and marriage changes disputes to arguments while opportunistic hustlers seize chances.
W J Norris considers a U S tour giving public readings. Hall Caine winters in Rome and aims to finish The Eternal City soon. Rudyard Kipling has dramatized The Light That Failed and Hawtrey has acquired the play.
Guaranteed first mortgages offered in amounts from 500 to 2500 dollars at 6 percent interest. Principal and interest guaranteed and payable in gold coins. Issued by Harlem Savings Bank located at 105 Madison Street, Harlem, Illinois.
A lyrical defense of wind’s unseen power. The speaker notes wind’s playful actions with kites and birds and grass, while yearning to know its true nature. The verse questions whether wind is a force of nature or a sentient, growing entity.
In a seaside reverie two men discuss Lavalle who rose to wealth after a single 1000 franc investment. Pierre Lavalle, ruined yet hopeful, meets Jose Alvarado, a Chilean fortune in 1885. Alvarado shares 90 to 100 million francs, asks Lavalle to marry his niece Anita Peña, sealing Lavalle's salvation through a dramatic twist of fate.
Extract from The Progress of the World in American Monthly Review of Reviews notes a 10 year population gain of about 13.225 million with an annual rate near 2.1 percent, cites immigration slowdown, and compares U S growth to Britain and Ireland. It projects 90 million by 1910, Britain 44 million, and asserts U S lead in world progress.
The article recounts Hiero II of Syracuse building a colossal wooden ship with an iron rampart, eight towers, and war machines including a 200 pound stone thrower. It notes Ptolemy Philopater's Nile ship, Archimedean screw, and an epigram by an Athenian poet rewarded with corn, ending with Hiero gifting the vessel to Ptolemy in Alexandria.
Despite recent storm and flood damage in Galveston Texas the city’s resilient citizens have made remarkable progress in restoring the town to its former condition. The note highlights Southern towns achieving notable rehabilitation efforts amid disaster.
A report from swamp lands in North Carolina and California notes Venus fly traps among insect eating plants from India Australia and Madagascar. Leaves one to six inches long bear twin blades that snap shut on insects, while stones or wood are rejected and leaves reopen after a few minutes.
The nation holds 2 270 557 440 acres of land with 929 308 068 acres still non appropriated. Standout totals by state include Alaska 359 492 760 acres California 42 925 296 Montana 69 073 491 and Texas is not listed. This land may be bought outright or acquired under Homestead law.
Professor Drake estimates that within 150 square miles around Tse-chau lies about three thousand million metric tons of coal, part of Shan-si’s extensive coal beds. Richthofen notes Shan-si’s anthracite area at 630 million tons, suggesting coal regions larger than Pennsylvania.
An exploration of Lake Tanganyika and the land north of it shows that some sea molluscs occur in this lake, the only one among Africa’s great lakes with such a phenomenon. The lake lies about 80 miles from the Congo basin, much of which was likely once a sea.
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