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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1900
Page
3
A rustic biographical poem in archaic, decorative voice celebrates a venerable old oak. The speaker boasts long years of strength and presence while foreseeing its fate as a sapling replaces it. The piece dwells on nature, mood, and the oak’s final decline and legacy.
In a seaside parsonage scene, Bessie impulsively seeks to fix the minister Mr. Leroy with Minerva as his wife. The minister reveals he loves Bessie, not Minerva, and proposes marriage, leading to a playful household reveal and a twist of fate as Bessie declares love and a September wedding.
A Home Magazine feature recounts tales from Tibet and India of fakirs and lamas with occult powers. A Be nar es episode shows a Bokt exhuming and rejoining his entrails as spectators chant and incense fills the air while the lama remains seemingly alive guiding the Atma.
In the Shines Jewell House annex to Westminster Abbey an upper chamber holds a small historical museum. Queen Elizabeth's standard, the exchequer records of Henry VII, six horse shoes, and sixty‑one nails are displayed. The sheriffs of London are sworn to count the nails and cut a bundle of sticks, a custom revived by a bundle of matches replacing the sticks.
A tiny Java state is run entirely by women except for the male sovereign who relies on three women forming his State Council for governance. The arrangement centers on female authority and male dependence within this unique political setup.
A Maryland man has agreed to supply 10 000 rabbits to a Pennsylvania firm within a year to be used for canning purposes.
Levi Bresson a 72 year old farmer in North Foster Rhode Island is father to 41 children from three marriages. His brood includes 32 living offspring with no apparent health issues and his wives produced numerous multiple births including triplets and twins. He moved to North Foster twelve years ago after a life that began in France and Canada.
The passage depicts distant harps in a European setting and a chaotic soundscape. An ecstatic figure performs a ritual cleansing gesture with a scarf before standing and revealing a body without marks.
The Bordentown area near Trenton served as a home for a banished king after Waterloo. Joseph Bonaparte, ex king of Naples and Spain, settled there under the name Count De Servilliers, building a grand estate and a lakeside villa for his nephew Charles Lucien Bonaparte. Village chatter linked the Count to the Napoleonic exile, drawing attention as he transformed the landscape with bridges, arbors, and a park-like setting.
The shade of Napoleon visits Cronje on an island, probing his actions on an English ship. Cronje confirms standing near the rail and turning his back to officers. The exchange suggests future magazine material. Chicago News.
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