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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1901
Page
4
Advice on building lasting marital happiness through unselfishness politeness and love. Emphasizes selecting a loving partner financial understanding and thrifty use of an allowance. Highlights three keys love sense and patience as the core elements for a successful married life.
English advocate John Cockburn argued in favor of admitting women to the legal profession at Gray's Inn. He cited female qualities such as instruction, persuasion, and eloquence as fitting them for the age.
Moreland records a hot but safe Fourth of July with a long trades procession led by JOHN HEINWALL and a series of celebrated wagons from THOS SAYLE BECKER BROS JULLIANSON BROS and Mrs C J Wilson. A safe burglary at F J Bippus is noted. A free library opens at C W Smith News Depot offering books in many languages and seeking 600 card holders.
Rev C M Sheldon tests his Christian theater concept with a dramatic Edward Blake. Philip James Bailey issues a new edition of Festus at Nottingham in his 85th year. A London manager plans Ben Hur at Drury Lane with an all English company next Easter. Dion Boucicault, dating Irene Vanbrugh, nearly joined the army. Pinero is his close friend. Pelleas and Melisande matinees draw crowds, Patrick Campbell and Martin Harvey praised. Faure’s music favored over translation. Ibsen, ill, spends days at the hotel in Christiania, seen as shy yet egotistic and engaging.
A collection of brief inspirational quotes from Father F B Meyer Oliver Wendell Holmes John Ruskin and F Quarles. The page also notes Ontario produced 30,186,000 bushels of wheat that year.
Accounts from Peking describe the empress dowager as regent while reform efforts sought to modernize China mirroring Japan. The 28 year old emperor Kuang Hsu, slight and gentle, is said to have lost political power after appearing in European dress. Baltimore Sun notes his deposition and naming of a successor.
John Morley critiques the 1645 execution of Archbishop Laud as an unjust act amid Civil War passions. He contrasts Laud’s age and confinement with other executions like Strafford and Charles, arguing Laud deserved clemency and warning against romanticizing the Roundhead narrative.
The Degollada theater, a landmark in Guadalajara, is described as the continent's largest exclusively theatrical structure and among the most costly and modern. Corner stone laid in 1856, about $3,000,000 spent, four stories high, 11,127 square feet, interior modeled on a Parisian playhouse with tiered boxes around three sides and a 155 by 65 foot stage.
The excerpt surveys various Parisian and Algerian murderers and criminals from Irving’s Studies of French Criminals. It catalogs names such as Pranzini Campi Lebier and Frado, noting their education, talents, and traits. It juxtaposes intellect with crime and highlights the complex biographical sketches used to illustrate criminal psychology.
Victor Smith, writing for the New York Press, argues English railways underestimate American methods. He cites American engines consuming more coal and oil and needing repairs, contrasting Midland Railway claims of careful maintenance with a U S preference to never rest or cool engines. The piece uses social notes on rest habits and aging equipment.
A physical culturist promotes sleeping on the back to reverse facial droop and reduce wrinkles. She argues keeping the head level or below the body during sleep counters daily muscle sag and combats aging signs for women.
The piece recalls Lord Charles Beresford’s early parliamentary exploits as he hid a boots booting slip during a division. It also tells of Harry Iles a Reading mason who returned a purse containing 320 in notes and gold and received a penny reward from the grateful owner a London commercial traveler.
The Marconi wireless telegraph system proved non interfering with message transmission during battles in South Africa. The apparatus operated successfully and messages were sent while ships fired their largest guns.
Barney Morris, famed laborer at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, turned 109. Born in County Cavan Ireland on June 10 1798 he has worked six days a week for many years and arrived in the United States seventy three years ago.
A London newspaper reports the steamer Croft sailing from Leith to New York in October 1898 and vanishing. A Granton bottle later carried a message claiming the ship and all 30 crew members, from Newcastle and Leith, were going down in mid Atlantic.
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