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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1901
Page
6
The Philadelphia Ledger prints Beatrice Clayton’s verse about awakening and renewed joy after a dark season. Poem compares love waking like lilies lifting chalices and voices breathing in a light wind.
The piece traces Jack Sinclair’s arc from a straitened clerkship to a hopeful singing career. Despite family misfortune and early hardship, his "good time coming" credo guides him as he supports friends, defers marriage plans, and pursues a possible engagement that could change his life.
In a crowded street fire erupts at a sailor’s house as Amy Robertson’s family hopes for money in a box. Jack Sinclair rescues a woman and children, but is fatally injured saving them, leaving a final blessing and memory for Amy as the crowd cheers.
A Walnut Street tailor notes no woman has a perfectly balanced figure claiming hips vary by at least one inch. He asserts one hip is usually larger, sometimes by two or three inches, and that perfect proportion is never found. The remark reflects a casual fashion-angle from the Philadelphia Record.
A witty Chicago Record Herald collection parades maxims about aging mood shifts and self possession. It notes a rolling stone and red hair’s omen while pairing contrasts of contentment and discontent through aphorisms and cheerful wisdom.
A large haul of bones and portions of wooden coffins with fragments of ancient deposits were unearthed at Hastings. Believed to belong to ancient Britons or prehistoric peoples, the bones are unusually large with thick skulls noted by observers.
A detailed portrait extols the Society Islands and Tahiti as a tropical paradise. It recounts Tahiti’s discovery in 1606, the Bounty mutiny and Pitcairn settlement, and the island’s serene climate, lush scenery, and devout society centered in Papeete.
Prof Pickering states that a telegram from Lowell Observatory in Arizona announced a shaft of light projecting from Mars lasting seventy minutes in early December. He wired the facts to Europe and distributed neostyle copies across the country.
Swedish explorer Dr. Sven Hedin continues his second expedition from Kashgar into central Asia. He aims to return to Europe after mapping Indus sources, collecting relics and legends, with Curzon visiting Bijapur to study historic Indian architecture now repurposed for government use.
The Barrymore family legacy blends humor and talent with tragedy. Maurice Barrymore once entertained at the Lambs club with quips about English superiority and spelling. Georgie Drew Barrymore, his mother, died in California after a charity bid and a terse manager's reply ending with a simple "Oh."
The article rebuts rumors that Charles M Schwab earns 800000 dollars annually as president of United States Steel. It explains the $800000 figure partly reflects contingent Carnegie Company interests from before the steel trust, notes Schwab’s Braddock PA roots, and states his steel trust stake is larger than the Carnegie stake.
The duke of Orleans, pretender to the French throne, has purchased the Paris newspaper Boleil to run it in support of the royalist cause. He will personally oversee the editorial department to advance the royalist interests.
Denver writer explains a red clay corner in Colorado used to color hair to a dark reddish gold. Francesa Sherman guards the secret and her method involves grinding, sieving, and brushing warm paste into hair, with two dye types, permanent results, minimal scalp effect, and 2 to 12 hours processing.
Johnstone, a magazine contributor, tells Park Row that after sending stories to Blank's Thanks Crank's and Tank's he waited to be paid. He woke to find all were accepted but unpaid and laments the lack of law or justice as he survives on sufferance.
Burlington physician Dr A P Grinnell reports that in Vermont narcotics are widely sold with 3,300,000 doses of opiane each month across 160 of 172 general stores and in patent medicines. He claims each adult over twenty one receives about one and a half doses daily.
Queen Victoria favored Indian shawls as prized gifts and amassed thousands during her reign. Her son King Edward favored distributing etchings and engravings to friends as a notable habit. He also collected a vast number of theses while heir apparent.
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