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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1900
Page
6
A bronze statue of Flora MacDonald stands on a granite base on Inverness Castle hill, nine feet tall with a 25 foot monument. The carving shows her gazing west with a tartan plaid and a collie beside her, commemorating the romantic tale of saving Prince Charles.
The article notes many of England's elite youths, including Hon. F. Roberts son of Lord Roberts, volunteering for service in South Africa. Roberts, nicknamed Bobs, serves as a staff officer with Buller and is poised to pursue a military career akin to his father.
A veteran Milwaukee operator, blamed for a storm night switch error, caused a major blaze by dousing a live board with water. His colleagues lampooned him as a lineman quickly deactivated the circuit, preventing greater damage and sending taunting telegrams.
John Gilmer Speed notes in the January Woman's Home Companion that seven guests make a comfortable dinner, two servants suffice, and a monopolist talker can spoil the evening. He warns the host bears responsibility for such guests in small gatherings and suggests a large dinner to test two insistent talkers.
A correspondent reports on a Minnesota wolf farming venture where a man traps wolves for bounty and sells skins to an eastern fur firm. The county pays 2 to 8 dollars per scalp and ear, with wolves bred in ravines and protected by a high fence to lure them into a coral for slaughter and sale.
Cleaning lamp chimneys with alcohol proves superior to soap and water, offering effective stain and residue removal without leaving soap film. Alcohol reduces risk of soot buildup and helps maintain clear glass for brighter illumination.
The newly issued Cuba postage series features a 10 centavo stamp showing a Cuban native plowing a level field with oxen. The design reflects the country's reconstruction era and has become a favorite among philatelists, regarded as one of the handsomest recent issues.
A Washington Star excerpt notes a giant seaweed called nereocytis reaching over 300 feet, valued for rope by South Sea islanders. It then shifts to Piet Johannes Joubert, French descent Boer general and Transvaal commander, detailing his ancestry, exile, and rise to power after aiding Kruger in London.
Bliss Carman, a leading Canadian poet in American magazines, approaches his fortieth year. Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, he studied in Edinburgh and Harvard and has edited several periodicals. His first poetry volume appeared in 1893, followed by Songs from Vagabondia with Richard Hovey.
A mountain battery for campaign use in South Africa relies on mules or horses to carry dissectible field guns across rugged terrain. The piece notes a captured section due to mule stampede at Bilandslangte and mentions related ballooning weeds and rope from plant stems for building and vessel material.
A messenger boy injured in a trolley car crash last June at New York City’s Bellevue Hospital had his nose and right eye lost. Doctors shaped a gutta percha base, drew the skin over it with fine silk sutures, and allowed the wound to heal. The operation was an entire success.
Supervising Principal Parker at the GO. W. Schaeffer School in German town adopts a card catalogue to track each pupil from admission through progression. Cards record name parent details residence admission date and number with monthly removals for withdrawals. The system, plus an admission blank with remarks, follows the pupil grade by grade and aids record keeping, saving time overall.
London Telegraph Ladysmith correspondence notes soldiers at the garrison church in khaki and new gear, officers covering buttons with khaki, drum and sword fittings reworked, and a trooper dyeing a charger. Captain John B. Finley details a nerve paralysis illness spreading among officers and men in the Orient. He describes dysentery leading to chronic nerve damage, with some crippled for life and others partially improved after Manila.
Elmira hosts a county bar association banquet with newspaper men barred. Reporters retaliate by ignoring lawyers, who likely hoped for free publicity from the event.
Washington barrister Belva Lockwood praises Peruna in a letter to The Peruna Medicine Co. She notes using it for herself and her mother now 88 and calls it invaluable for cold catarrh hay fever and as a tonic for feeble or nervous individuals. The ad claims catarrh can affect any organ and targets women with pelvic catarrh as common.
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