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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1898
Page
7
Rain praised as community scenes include sermons at the Methodist and Episcopal churches while pastors plan trips and conventions. Local families travel to Ludington and Paw Paw Lake. merchants Carlson and Olson and Berwyn’s leading grocers promote fresh groceries and delicacies at low prices.
Miss Bemis returned from Wisconsin and Miss Eva Park visits Clyde from Dowagiac Michigan. A youth was fined for riding a bicycle without a lamp. Edith and Gertrude Roome return from Washington DC for the Teachers' Convention. Mr and Mrs McManis move to Talmage Nebraska. A lawn social at Mr McDonald's on Clyde Avenue ends pleasantly. The Christian Endeavor Society indoors a rain affected lawn fete with Anna C Beach of Riverside delivering a missionary talk.
A children's basket party was held at Throop's Grove last Sunday with good fun. A grand picnic is planned at Altenheim Grove on August 7 under Star of the West and Germania Legions. A brush fire near town was extinguished before it could spread. Roos and Schrade advertise mortgages and fire insurance. Harlem Maennercher sent 21 men to Davenport Iowa for a large band event with about 2000 male chorus voices. The grand jury issued ten indictments against ten alleged bookmakers at the Harlem track. evidence will be heard against Harlem Jockey Club officials. True bills include William Riley Jerry Driscoll Daniel O'Leary James O'Leary James Murphy Charles Smith Charles Miers Kid Walter Slocum Flannigan for keeping a common gambling house.
A reflective prose piece ponders why paregoric soothes infants and why millers endure repetitive toil. It questions reformers at home, bore-like small calibers, erratic wheels, and arbitration proving双方 wrong. It notes the Cheops pyramid’s vast base of 704 feet and height of 448 feet with an estimated cost of £35,000,000.
Free Pills offer invites readers to mail their address to H. E. Bucklen & Co. Chicago for a trial box of Dr. King s New Life Pills. Claims include relief from constipation sick headache malaria and liver troubles with a safe vegetable formula.
Stephen Bonsal portrays Seville’s Holy Week Procession of Silence with a famished penitent bearing a heavy cross. A twentieth generation descendant vows perpetual vicarious penance under threat of his estate. A blindfolded girl in communion robes carries a golden chalice, symbolizing faith that is blind.
Prof George Davidson describes a Pacific platform ten miles wide sloping to 100 fathoms with 27 submerged valleys along its edge. Some valleys align with rivers and two have shoreward mountains. The King Peak Chasm near shore is linked to a wrecked ship that ran onto rocks in foul weather, misled by misleading soundings.
A collection of aphorisms and literary reflections urging active benevolence and resilience. Roger Ascham counsels learning as experience, Venaca notes the joy of doing good, and Oliver Wendell Holmes muses on nature and solitude. Practical tips for banishing melancholy appear in light anecdotes.
A notice for the First Congregational Church at the corner of Waller Avenue and Midway Park in Austin. Rev. W. L. Demorest is the pastor, residence 5801 Ontario Street. Sunday services at 10 30 a m and 7 30 p m.
The article profiles Rep William P Hepburn as Martin Lyon's great grandson and recounts Pundita Ramabis work for child widows in India. It notes Lieut Gen Bernardo Augustin as Philippines governor general and recalls Aaron Ben Khassofs wealth and influence in Bokhara. It also describes local Jewish prominence among Bokharan communities led by a figure called the Rothschild of Central Asia.
Pinero's The Magistrate failed in Paris and closed after brief Cluny runs. Ellen Terry's John Oliver Hobbes writes a short play for her, with a longer work for Sir Henry Irving still unfinished. Sig Novelli offers a four act bicycling farce to be written in thirty hours in Turin coverage. Barrie and Conan Doyle shift to theater with high fees and new Holmes material. A light joke ends with a quip about idealism and realism during an engagement.
An 19th century advertisement touts a salve claimed to cure cuts sores ulcers fevers and rashes and even piles with a money back guarantee. Sold for 25 cents a box by TLowett and Traill in Austin.
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