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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1901
Page
4
Thirty eight inventors have taken out a hundred or more each of United States patents since the year 1872. Edison leads with 742 patents, Elihu Thomson has 444, while Westinghouse and Sir Hiram S. Maxim also rank prominently on the list.
Botanists in Lucerne County discover violets growing from a solid culm bank along the Susquehanna River roots embedded in coal. Origin traced to seeds of the coal age in memory of Eli Whitney. Georgia moves to honor Whitney by converting Augusta area into a country club. charter secured.
Missouri politician General Catchings, whose House term ended in March, says his service cut into his life. He plans to leave politics at 54 to resume law practice and earn money.
Fairfax Courthouse Virginia received portraits of notable early figures including George Washington and George Mason. The Washington portrait was donated by Prof. R F Andrews of the Corcoran Art Gallery and the George Mason portrait by Carl Guntheart of Washington.
James S. Barrell, one of Cambridge's oldest instructors, resigns as master of the Harvard grammar school after fifty consecutive years in teaching, more than half in Cambridge schools. He is nearly 75 years old.
Local notes report Clarence Bates breaking a leg and a new baby boy for the Stoddards. J O Harmon moves his real estate office to 12 North 48th avenue. Brown recovers from grip, a heat collapse felled a Lehm Express Co worker, and Gowdy neighbors are social. A fire scare at Dave Tong’s lunch room was stopped by quick action. Fourth of July plans stir merchants and a 75 member bicycle club forms. Lena Paul, killed by a train near Cragon, and her fiancé John Briscon’s suicide at Rose Hill are recalled.
The Moreland Male Chorus presents a literary and musical entertainment at Rehberg Hall on Tuesday evening June 18. Admission is 25 cents. Special artists will perform making it a great evening for music lovers.
Herbert Jenner Fust of Gloucester shire is sole survivor of the two teams in the first inter university match between Cambridge and Oxford in 1827. He captained the Cambridge eleven. Hoe is 95 years old.
The twelfth census enumeration for Pennsylvania includes Jersey Shore Loyal Lock Nippenose Picture Rocks Wolf Cherrytree Cornplanter Scrub Grass Victory Twilight Parnassus Freedom Paradise Red Lion Moon Slippery Rock Daisy Town Scalp Level Snow Shoe Popcopson Licking Paint Chest Fox Bald Eagle Oil Creek Woodcock Rush Andy Fair Chance Warrior's Mark Wampum Jeddo Shickshinny Warrior Run Eden Four Coons Lively Town Mushroom and Peach.
The passage describes a vast ancient funeral for Alexander the Great with a gold coffin, costly aromatics, and a diadem. A richly decorated funeral car weighed heavily enough to require eighty four mules and a year to transport it from Babylon to Syria, highlighting the immense expense involved.
Howard Gould aims to construct one of the nation’s largest country houses at Sands Point Long Island. The design imitates Kilkenny Castle’s exterior while interior features will embrace modern mansion luxury and conveniences.
A quotation from Sir J Herschel emphasizes that supplying a man with books and access to great literature connects him with the world’s best minds across eras. It frames reading as a gateway to wisdom, wit, tenderness, bravery, and humanity.
More than 1000 uncontested actions for absolute divorce separation and annulment are decided yearly by the New York County Supreme Court justices. Decrees are granted in about 75 percent of these cases. The straightforward procedure often results in immediate divorces after evidence is presented.
A New York Press item notes William Shakespeare Jr. of Kalamazoo Michigan manufactures fishing tackle. It highlights his trick hooks that require no worm, contrasting with the worm eating worm of a king.
A society woman bought a set of Dresden china coffee cups then returned them saying they were unsatisfactory. A clerk handling the cups found them sticky and used, with evidence of careless washing after possession.
A Washington Post report notes Osage Indians in Oklahoma control 600000 of 800000 acres of pasture land and hold $8 million in treasury funds from Kansas sales. Annual tribal income runs about $600000 with per capita $804.26, while education and modernization spread among families.
A Chicago Chronicle report describes Leo Kamm’s kammatograph using a circular glass plate instead of film. The plate rotates and moves laterally to create a spiral of 600 rapid pictures per plate, with development and projection methods similar to standard negatives. The compact camera aims at affordable access for capturing fast scenes, though picture size limits large-screen projection.
Utah moves to avert disaster in agriculture by supplying the Great Salt Lake basin with needed water. Irrigation cutoffs threaten the lake itself with rapid evaporation and falling levels. The lake, once higher on mountains, continues shrinking toward possible disappearance.
General Francis Vinton Greene, a wealthy traveler who always sails first cabin, and Mrs. Greene formerly Miss Chevalier, stayed ten days in Washington at Archibald Hopkins’s Dupont Circle home. They paid $700 in rent and drew social headlines as they toured the capital.
A column argues against giants of biblical lore noting 123 foot Adam and 950 year Noah, but uses a provocative theory of civilization shrinking human height and lifespan. The author warns against passive acceptance of theories and calls for independent evidence.
The article recalls Charlie Crocker of Central Pacific who crossed the plains in the 1840s and predicted a continental steam railroad. Once derided as Crazy Crocker, he helped build the first transcontinental line, and five more routes followed to the Pacific coast.
British agents are in the country seeking bids for 20 000 bags of feeding oats 20 000 bags of seed oats 20 000 bales of alfalfa hay and 20 000 bags of bran. Supplies are understood to be for troops in South Africa as English forces show no withdrawal appetite.
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