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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1898
Page
8
Community items from Oak Park recount social events and church talks, a snow filled week, and changes in local business and officials. Residents attend socials at Maywood and First Baptist, while Postmaster Giles faces carrier layoff debates and Derby era rail news.
Berwyn residents report Frank Porter illness Melville Eames homecoming H M Rogers back from east Mrs Mary Hawkins improving W J Andrews family at Evanston Rev E A Schell back from St Paul and Minneapolis Frank Skinner visiting sister Laura Rudderham surprise snowstorm disrupts electric car service Presbyterian Church social Luncheon by men Funeral for Otis Piper father of C E Piper Otis Piper Jr Al Piper H W Piper held in Chicago with interment at Graceland Cemetery
Miss Mabel Charles visits cousin in Big Rock Illinois. St Catharine Academy students enjoy a graphophone entertainment arranged by Father Campbell. Local businesses offer loans and travel services while community events include art receptions and magazine club meetings. Santa Fe ink and shipping lines not shown.
Eddie Kalix is ill with grip. James McElroy and Harrison host a family reunion. A snow plow derailed in front of Breckenridge's shop at 2 pm. A hunter called Bus returned with 25 rabbits. Barney Fox leads Kenny's business and is well known. Justice Salisbury suffers lumbago but works. Henry Horne shows slight recovery after a close call on a tender. Mac McGilveray inherits $3000 from Canada. Mrs. Martha Foster remains gravely ill. Doctors Steman and Pope diagnose. Sunday school well attended. collection nearly full. Children sang with vim. all welcome to attend.
Sunday notices from The Vindicator list Presbyterian Men's Club programs with solos and a duet by Mesdames Thomas M. Hunter and Bernard Hartley and a Della Phillips violin solo. Lectures include Frak DeWitt Talmage’s Nuts to Crack and sermons at First Church of Christ and Oak Park churches with topics Jesus Teaching How to Pray and The History of One Conscience.
The Cicero Gas Company distributes a pamphlet titled Cheaper Gas for Cicero. It argues gas works benefit Cicero, claim liberal policy and low prices, and warns investors about the Hall Process based venture and local franchise actions affecting public interests.
Advertises Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets as a one day cold cure. Claims druggists refund money if it fails to cure. Includes pricing element and promotional language typical of mid-century patent medicines.
Leading druggists and merchants from Shreveport Louisiana to Safford Arizona endorse Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds. The remedy is touted as proven after a quarter century and offered with free trial battles at Lovell’s Drug Store Oak Park and Traill’s Drug Store.
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