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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1897
Page
5
The advertisement touts a highly equipped electrical plant with duplicate boilers engines and dynamos offering all night service. It promises cleanest safest and most convenient light at cost no higher than gas with prompt house wiring by mechanics following Underwriters Association Rules and low rates.
A railroad worker recollects a junction incident where a mother sat on the track delaying a train to secure her daughter's boarding. The conductor urged her off and threatened force, but she resisted asserting damages if harmed. The tale ends with no resolution.
A tense scene on a train track ends with an elderly woman’s defiant farewell to a parting daughter. The woman steps aside just as the writers consider removing her by force, then waves and wishes the men had learned some politeness as the train departs.
A range of short items notes a lantern with an electric flame, Philadelphia water complaints over coal content, a Missouri farmer flipping city lots for profit in Kansas City, Charles Farmer of Polk county with artificial legs, big life insurers mulling a sanitarium for consumptives, a large iron ship sold after running ashore near Yarmouth, a Chicago robbery of $25, and a Louisville man who stole a stomach pump during a doctor visit.
Nine free city libraries in New York contain a total 297400 volumes. The item notes other global facts on imports, Mexican plant life, British wheat yields, and rabbit overpopulation in Iowa.
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