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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1898
Page
4
A reflective essay discusses the spread of curfew bells across about 300 towns. Proponents cite reduced crime and fewer arrests while critics recall carefree youth and laments the loss of nightly freedoms. It questions whether tighter discipline truly cures poverty and crowded living conditions.
Compilation of doctrinal notes from various cases including Gelsthorpe v Furnell on succession tax limits, Rasmussen v Baker on English literacy for voters, and Dixon v People on expert witness fees. Also covers insurance exclusions for natural-loss events, vaccination authority, rent-note distress, partnership share rules, oil lease transfers, utility testing duties, and fictitious-name conveyance validity.
A dog’s warning and a quick brake stop a passenger train near Edwardsport just as a two year old in a red frock vanishes into the woods. Engineer Dorsey spots the danger, stops the train 10 feet from the child, and the baby is quickly recovered by Baggageman Franklin. The father, frantic, races toward the scene as passengers praise the engineer’s caution.
A humorous glossary offers playful definitions such as Kiss as a wireless message to the heart and Divorce as the difference between Matrimony and alimony. Other items mock social idols, moneylenders, and chivalry with clever quips about memory, blunders, debt, and romance.
A collection of curious statistics ranges from bog land in Ireland and pigmy mice to literacy in India and Russia’s crisis reports. It notes world sheep numbers, merino yields, giraffe speech limits, Costa Rica climate variety, and British glass acreage for tomatoes.
James Jones of Jones & Son in Cowden Indiana relays a dramatic recovery tale. His wife battled la grippe that stalled at Hasty Consumption until a bottle of Dr King’s New Discovery was used. The medicine, sold locally, allegedly cured her from the first bottle, with free trials offered at Levell's and Teojll's drug stores.
The piece notes repeating clocks by Barlow around 1676 and a Westminster Abbey striking clock in 1638. It credits Gerbert with the escapement about 1000 A D and Ctesibius with toothed wheels about 140 B C. It mentions Locke's magnetic clock of 1847 48 and claims Richard Harris and Galileo built the first pendulum. Pendulums vary with air density and temperature. Westminster Abbey houses the largest clock, set up May 30 1859.
A foreign gentleman notes the lack of picturesque ruins in this country provoking local pride. The exchange shifts to grand western boasts of 16 to 1 castles and a humorous dig at missionary eating.
In a light exchange Mr. Murray Hill notes the happy look on Mr. Shadyside as his wife finishes her spring house cleaning. Mr. Beech Wood.
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve advertised as the best salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions. It guarantees perfect satisfaction or money refunded and is priced at 25 cents per box, sold by Lovett & Traill in Austin.
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