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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1899
Page
5
The Deering Ideal Mower built in Chicago demonstrates advanced machine design with Deering roller and ball bearings. It features a wide frame, high wheels for stability, light and reliable gears, and minimal lost motion allowing instant drive to the crank and knife. The knife can be removed in fifteen seconds by a latch and it is the only mower on the market with bicycle pattern ball bearings.
Tit Bits recalls Dally betting Reggie twenty kisses on a club’s win at Brighton. The stakes were placed and later held by Mr Nicefellow as the wager remained unresolved.
A collection of ad blurbs notes Lane's Family Medicine claims daily bowel movement health and liver kidney benefits. Piso's Cure for Consumption is cited as a house cough remedy with a customer testimonial. Various dates and names appear in short consumer lines and a vague moral about knowing yourself.
An old advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Facet powder as the sole remedy for swollen smarting burning sweating feet corns and bunions. It promotes shaking the powder into shoes and directs readers to purchase at druggists and shoe stores for 26 cents with a sample offered by Allen’s address in LeRoy New York.
A humorous fragment from Tit-Bits depicts a grocer pressing a farmer's wife for butter, joking about measures and blame. The exchange uses playful dialect to critique thrift and market reliance through a light pun about sugar and butter.
An advert touts Kemp's Balsam as a remedy that stops coughing at once. It invites readers to visit a druggist for a free sample bottle and notes bottles are sold in 25 and 50 cent sizes. Delays are warned as dangerous.
Description notes a system where every laborer is issued a ticket worn on cap and back bearing the worker’s name business and employer in Japan. The passage highlights identification practices among mines and workplaces similar to those of American Mine Workers.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad bans sales pitches in day coaches to four calls per hour and prohibits calls in sleeping parlor chair or dining cars. Passengers may still request papers from the porter in these cars. The move aims to reduce passenger disturbance on trains.
A humorous reflection on how a man only appreciates home life after he sits at his own table and begins to critique his wife's meals. The quip implies domestic dynamics and the irony of domestic bliss.
An advertisement warns consumers to request Cascarets directly and avoid fraudulent substitutes or counterfeit Cascarets products. The notice emphasizes authentic Cascarets Candy Cathartic and cautions against mutations or fake versions.
A reflective piece noting the ease with which many aspire yet few attain true greatness. It highlights the disparity between ambition and achievement and calls for perseverance.
A St Louis letter riffs on Darwinian ideas of useless organs while describing the wig trade as a hidden art. It traces wig origins to Europe, outlining German and French cleansing methods, and notes France, Spain, Italy supply dark hair while northern Europe yields light hues. It cites supply declines and mentions Brittany and Aragon peasant women selling hair long ago.
The article explores early hair markets in Europe and the shift from natural hair to manufactured wigs. It notes baldness rising with modern hats and fashion, the spread of hair peddlers from Paris to Pesth, and the craft of preparing wigs to perfectly imitate real hair.
An account contrasts Pueblo social dances with martial rites in New Mexico and Colorado. It notes the Stick and Eagle dances differ by gender and style, and explains why photographers struggle to profit from native performances. A biograph crew tries and fails to film a Pueblo dance after paying $10, as dancers fear the noisy machine.
A tale from The Argonaut recounts Lord Spencer asking the tallest Scots Grey his nationality and origin. The man replies, “Scotch, yer banner,” and names “Tipperary” as his home, highlighting mismatches between regiment titles and composition.
A shopkeeper earned the nickname the little rascal for his virtues. When a stranger asked the reason he replied the label distinguishes him from other tradesmen who are all great rascals, a quip from Tit-Bits.
A Philadelphia Record snippet presents a quip about a man named Shingle who is so thin he cannot tell if his pain is stomach trouble or backache. The exchange highlights his frail condition with humor.
A letter from Mrs Ep En Linger of Devine Texas thanks Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief after nine years of womb prolepsus and leucorrhoea. She credits the remedy with a easier labor and recovery enabling her to work and care for a newborn girl, expressing deep gratitude.
Mrs Emman Schneider of 1244 Helen Ave Detroit Michigan reports dramatic relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Blood Purifier and Liver Pills. She says prior to use she felt fainting spells and feared death, now those feelings have disappeared.
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