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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1899
Page
10
The Deering Ideal Mower made in Chicago showcases advanced engineering with Deering Roller and Ball Bearings. It has a wide truck, high wheels for stability and traction, light and reliable gears, and minimal lost motion enabling immediate start in heavy grass. The knife detachs in fifteen seconds by a latch and this model uniquely uses bicycle-pattern ball bearings.
Dally concludes a wager with Mr Nicefellow over a race at Brighton. He claims the club should win and lets the stake holder hold the money, sharing a playful exchange about the bet.
A collection of old testimonials and quips touts Fane’s Family St medicine for daily bowel movement ease and gentle liver and kidney action. It includes price hints, social commentary, and various person notes from 1890s records.
A vintage advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to relieve swelling burning and sweating feet corns and bunions. It urges purchase at druggists and shoe stores for 26 cents and offers a free sample by sending a request to Allen S. Olmsted in LeRoy New York.
A fragmentary Scots joke depicts a greedy grocer scolding a farmer's wife for butter supply. The wife retorts with blame and a sugar pun, ending with the ambiguous sign off Tit-Bita. The quaint exchange highlights rural commerce and wordplay in a dated newspaper sketch.
An 19th century style advert touts Kemp's Balsam claiming immediate cough relief. It urges readers to visit a druggist for a free sample bottle and notes bottles come in 25 and 50 cent sizes with a warning that delays are dangerous.
Like American Mine Workers every workman in Japan is ticketed with a badge on the cap showing his name business and employer. The Imbels attached to the cap and tack bear his nam and employer's name.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad plans to curb newspaper sellers on trains. Agents may call their goods only four times per hour in day coaches and not in sleeping parlor chair or dining cars. Passengers can still get papers by asking the porter.
A man discovers the true joys of home only after he sits at his own table and critiques his wife's cooking, a humorous reflection on domestic life.
Consumer urges beware of fraudulent Cascarets substitutes. The notice warns buyers to insist on genuine Cascarets Candy Cathartic and avoid imitation products that mimic the brand. It emphasizes the risk of counterfeit goods and the need for authenticity.
In a St. Louis Letter the piece notes Darwin on disuse and evolution of organs, then details wigmaking as fine art. It explains European hair sourcing, cleaning methods in Germany and France, and the flow from Brittany to Paris, Spain, Italy, and North Germany amid shrinking supply.
The article traces ancient hair growth, notes a trend toward baldness with hats and modern style, and explains how hair is collected by peddlers, shipped to Paris Leipsic and Budapest markets, processed into wigs and bangs, and sold to fashion-conscious buyers with concern for natural appearance.
A visitor details Pueblo dances in New Mexico with distinct tribal forms, from the social Stick dance to the Eagle dance, and explains why photographing them is fraught with risk. A biograph crew pays $10 to film a dance, but panics erupt as the noisy machine drives the dancers to safety, leaving without pictures or money.
Lord Spencer once inspected the Scots Greys in Phoenix Park Ireland and asked the tallest man his nationality. The rider replied Scotch yer banner, and when asked which part of Scotland he came from, he answered Tipperary.
A shopkeeper earned the nickname the little rascal for his virtues and was asked by a stranger why he bore it. He replied that he distinguishes himself from others by noting that all his rivals in trade are great rascals.
A clipped Philadelphia Record item notes a man named Shingle in distress, described as thin and unable to tell if his ailment is stomach trouble or backache, with terse dialogue about his condition.
Ad advertises Allen's Foot Ease powder to ease new shoes and cure corns bunions and sweaty feet. Sold at druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents with samples sent to LeRoy New York. Also reports wolves in Russia devouring about 800000 domestic animals valued at 1 200 000 pounds annually.
An OCR filled page lists remedies and advert phrases such as Halls O Catarrh Cure a constitutional cure and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething. It promotes numerous tonics and cough medicines with brief claims and price references while interspersing literary quotes and observations about doctors, vanity, and egotism.
A letter from Mrs Ep Ba Linger of Devine Texas thanks Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from nine years of illness after prolapsed womb and painful labor. She reports improved health, ability to work, and a healthy baby girl after using the product during pregnancy and labor.
Mrs. Emman Schneider of Detroit Michigan reports severe faintness before using Lydia BH Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound Blood Purifier and Liver Pills. She states she felt near death but now feels wonderfully strengthened and those faint feelings are gone.
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