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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1899
Page
3
The article notes Paris’s latest fancy dress fashions with tight bodices, low necklines, and net gowns. It highlights ballroom trends, young women leading cotillions, and outfits such as a cloud-green cashmere dress with green embroidery, plus the rise of long black suede gloves as a striking accessory.
Describes mink trimmed gowns and white chiffon ruchings on skirts, elaborate floral corsages, and satin bodices, with a few notes on fashion sensibilities. Includes a humorous anecdote about Lem Pickering, a Gilbert anecdote, a canoe cyclometer adaptation, and brief remarks on crop ripening in Chile, Argentina, and Peru.
Inventor Signor E Putalo develops an electrical regulator to prevent engine racing when the propeller rises from water. A mercury pair linked by a bottom tube, mounted fore and aft, uses magnets to short circuit resistance and control a throttle via a steam valve. The article notes U S toy spending at retail about 45 million dollars per year.
A Chicago News excerpt presents a courtroom scene with a prisoner pleading against an exemplary punishment. The judge contemplates punishment while the prisoner references drinking and social judgment. The piece contrasts historic views that dance once served as a medicine.
A skeptical essay derides Chinese beliefs about the afterlife, describing temple rites, paper offerings, and heavenly hells in Yan nan. It details bribes to judges of the underworld, lifelike depictions of punishment, and the idea that relatives may conjure comfort through sham offerings.
Simon Rucca a 60 year old Caibarien native with six fingers on each hand and six toes on his right foot has lived a humble life as a wrecker. A museum offer was declined after a ship captain spotted him while wreckage lay near Carbarien harbor. Rucca hails from Andros Island in the Bahamas and is noted as a fervent Cuba independence advocate and outspoken orator.
A early 20th century report describes a government court in Juneau prosecuting Yukon and southeastern Alaska Indians for witchcraft linked to brutal murders. It details torture methods including burning eyes with red hot iron and slow killings, with victims often chosen by medicine men amid a spike in consumption and tribal strife.
An account of a Tibetan decomposition ceremony in which the body is exposed on a hill top the Lamas chant then birds and dogs consume the flesh. After small circuits and prayers the Lamas and relatives dismantle the remains and eat the flesh as bones dry.
A curious Parisian figure walks the boulevards and wagers at cafes that he can answer any France history question. He gains crowds and prides himself on ancient schemes, gathering Victima as he wagers.
The Eskimo count with fingers for one to five and use the second hand for six to ten. Beyond ten they count toes, as in thirteen being three toes on the first foot, eighteen as three toes on the second foot, and twenty as a whole man. Twenty-two is two on the second man, thirty-seven two toes on the second man’s second foot, and forty the whole second man. Dr Nansen notes they do not count beyond one hundred, the whole of the fifth man.
A remedy for grippe recommends Kemp's Balsam for throat and lung diseases. Get a bottle now and keep it ready to prevent pneumonia by keeping the cough loose. Sold by all druggists.
Mrs Wallace muses on how the term passenger depot evolved into station while a Cincinnati Enquirer reader notes the change may stem from a past row between the deepo and depe po factions.
In Brooklyn O Lite a cartoon uses Miss Passe to explore a pleasant expression by prompting her to discuss potential future marriages. The exchange highlights social manners and vanity in a humorous tone.
An ad promotes a single dose of Five Drops as beneficial for la grippe with testimonials. The notice urges readers to view another column for full claims and testimonials supporting the product.
A collage of humorous lines and brief hints including a dropsy treatment ad from Dr. H. H. Green's Sons of Atlanta, stray street trivia about Chinese cities, a Miss Hope Ross remark, trial ponders free, odd marriage note, and a joke exchange about horse steak in Paris.
A terse item notes a trial discussing relief from pain involving a product name resembling Orange ine. It includes a Chicago address 15 Michigan av and hints at legal proceedings without detailing outcomes.
Invocation of a pest control claim and a medicine ad. The piece touts a bug exterminator joke and promotes Cent’s Headache Capsules for nervous headache with price details: 10 and 5 cents at all druggists. The tone mirrors a humorous, old time newspaper style.
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