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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1901
Page
5
The notice promotes Ross Creek Lehigh as the best coal mined in America and argues early ordering in summer is profitable. It asserts no substitute exists and provides multiple business addresses in Austin Oak Park and Chicago for orders.
Local notices chronicle Mrs. M Lyon taking a Lake View cottage, Miss Ben-Oliel visiting Mrs. Osgood, and Mrs. Kretzinger returning from Washington. Vernon Biggs sustains injuries in a Saturday baseball game and is bedridden. The Austin Alumni Association meets Friday with Miss Patrick hosting. The Saint Catherine Academy commencement is set for next Wednesday led by Sister Joseph.
Oak Park residents report a busy period with travel plans and community events. Ex-president John S. Jones and son plan a two month visit to Europe. The Pan-American exhibition returns June 18. Local weddings, anniversaries, and fire company gratitude are noted along with church services and band concerts.
Mrs. Emily C Ball a Chicago dresser teams with Mrs C Ella Taylor at 121 North Park Ave to operate in Austin on Wednesdays and Saturdays. She serves Chicago Austin and Oak Park clients with hairdressing shampooing and manicuring offered at set prices and special summer rates for pupils.
Mizpah praises the Chicago Auditorium presentation of Uncle Tom's Cabin for its powerful moral message and the revival of beloved American tunes. He recalls songs like Way Down South in Dixie Yankee Doodle and My Old Kentucky Home, linking them to childhood memory and national spirit.
Rev. Dr. Fawcett, longtime Methodist minister born near Toronto, died Monday June 10 after illness in Albert Lea Minnesota while en route to Winnipeg for church dedication. He was 59 and believed to have died from ptomaine poisoning after eating canned salmon. He leaves a widow and son Rev M Edward Fawcett. Services were held in River Forest and Chicago with interment at Graceland.
The annual election of the officers of the Austin Mandolin Orchestra was held this week. Officers elected: President Lawrence Wilson. vice-president Miss Helen Rice. secretary-treasurer Mr G L Camp. librarian James Bassett. conductor Prof F I Newell. The members presented a baton to Mr Newell in appreciation of his labors.
The Beethovan Club held its annual meeting Monday night and elected officers for the coming year. President Prof. F. I. Newell, first vice president Prof. Frank Pierce, second vice president Miss Minnie Poat, third vice president Mrs. Lolo Gaily Chace, secretary Miss Edith Wallace, treasurer Mrs. Della S. Frazier, librarian Mrs. N. P. Kellogg.
Prich's Shoe Store at 121 North 520 Avenue offers big bargains as it clears its entire stock. The sale begins Monday June 17 and runs throughout the week.
The Rev Newell Dwight Hillis of Brooklyn denounces speculative trading on margins as gambling while noting legitimate investment exists. He cites stock and commodity markets in the East and South, warns against manipulation by corners, and discusses potential laws to curb futures trading.
A short advertisement extols economy as the path to wealth and promotes Lackawanna coal for reducing fuel costs. The copy invites investigation as an investment and lists Barr & Collins with Traill & Cooling as contacts, including the telephone number 1641.
Plans for the annual Business Men's Picnic at Mill Creek Park include committees for prizes music and floor, programs ticketing and printing. Oak Park and Austin associations appoint members and call on merchants to close stores for Picnic Day.
Rev J N Brandelle, formerly a bachelor, wed Anna Lundin in Arnot on May 15 in a Lutheran ceremony. A reception at the bride’s uncle Andrew Ericson home followed with 250 guests, gifts of 125 dollars and silver spoons, and further greetings at the Swedish Lutheran Church in a post ceremony reception at the church. The couple then toured Pennsylvania and Illinois before returning to Austin on June 7 to reside at 725 North Waller Avenue.
Mrs. G. W. Kretzinger hosted about fifty guests from the Woman's Club at 320 South Franklin avenue. Chicago Needlework Guild leader Mrs. Charles D. Hamill urged support. Two Austin sections of the guild organized 220 garments with officers named for Section I and II and to report at the November annual meeting.
Last Sunday afternoon burglars entered Henry Gearts home at 522 North Harlem Avenue and stole a savings bank containing 13 to 14 dollars. An overcoat and other items vanished but police later recovered all items except the cash.
A local notice invites readers to contact Star Lightning Rod Co at Box 166, Austin Ill, for an onsite assessment. The company promises a representative will visit to make an estimate.
Mrs Yalding plans to return from California this week. Rev Mr Tracy en route to India was a guest of Mr and Mrs Alford Parker. River Forest public school to entertain at Presbyterian Church Thursday June 20. Graduates Gardner Bostedo Annie Wherry and Queeny Baker of River Forest at Oak Park High. Rev Inglis former Pekin preacher spoke on the siege at the Presbyterian Church last Sunday. Fred Robinson Stock Yards Market driver injured when thrown from wagon on river bridge. both legs broken and hospitalized.
A movement seeks a golf ground at Garfield Park near Colorado avenue. Interested people should contact the park commissioners. A meeting will be held at the Oakdale hotel this Friday evening to discuss the plans.
Twelve birds owned by Bert Pillinger Ray Wintle and Ed Pillinger were released from Austin to Cedar Rapids Ja 212 miles away. Bert Pillinger secured victory by sending the first bird home at 330 pm three hours ahead of the field.
Sir William Brampton Gurdon, a bluff and genial Suffolk farmer and member of parliament, has championed the deceased wife's sister bill. He served as private secretary to Mr. Gladstone in the 1860s, attended the 1878 Paris monetary conference, and joined the 1881 Cape royal commission on the Transvaal question.
The author contrasts grief’s impulses, noting that small sorrows are loud and insistent while larger, older griefs tend to be calm or quiet. Minds resemble ill hung vehicles: light loads cause clatter, heavy burdens quiet motion and thought.
Henryk Silenkiewicz, 53, exemplifies the Polish gentleman, always faultlessly dressed and slow speaking. He shows little interest beyond literature and has pursued many worldly pleasures as a rich man. He is an inveterate smoker of strong cigars.
Emphasizes cost effectiveness of lightning rods to shield homes and families. Highlights safety as the primary benefit and positions installation as a prudent, affordable protection for property and loved ones.
The Harlem village plans a June 21 school picnic at Altenheim and closes its week with Harlem public schools’ exercises on June 20 in Gaden’s Hall. Chicago Telephone extends lines on 12th street to Lombard while the board requires rebuilding all wooden sidewalks. The Harlem race track secures a $2500 amusement license. Lathrop Athletic picnic at Gaden’s Grove raised $150. W D Dingmann joins as village waterworks engineer. Aurora and Wheaton Electric Railway seeks right of way near Great Western railway. Benjamin Collard of Waldheim Cemetery dies suddenly in the heat. epilepsy noted.
A bill for the incorporation of Ridley, Tennessee, cleared both houses of the state legislature. The text includes a descriptive paragraph locating the town with a north 35 degrees east line to a marked black gum and a bluebird on a limb near Ed Johnson’s horse lot, illustrating a historic survey style.
The cyanide process dissolves fine gold in crushed ore using a dilute potassium cyanide solution and then precipitates the gold from the solution with zinc shavings. The plant is inexpensive and simple to operate and the overall cost is small.
Glycerine when properly used is a valuable cosmetic that whitens and softens while dissolving coloring matter with agents like rose or orange water. In concentrated form it is very injurious, causing burning, scorching and yellowing of the skin.
The London Economist argues that stock inflation has lasted long and become indiscriminate. A collapse is inevitable, but timing remains uncertain as quotations reach ever higher levels.
Japan is smaller than California yet has 44 million people. The land’s cultivable area equals about one twelfth of California, highlighting sharp population density differences.
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