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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1899
Page
2
A collection of miscellaneous quips and observations from Loomis News Depot notes. It includes political curios, social maxims, and a tax detail about sign taxes in Cuba with a June 1899 expiry for Americans who have hung out signs.
The Rev. Charles Sheldon of Kansas saw unprecedented sales with over three million copies sold in England alone. His penny-priced titles, including three other works, recently reached nine hundred thousand copies in a fortnight, prompting concerns as twenty English publishers pirate his sermons.
A worker stops to feed a starved horse after a bucket spills oats on the curb. Alderman H Dink praises the act as a fine example of courtesy. The piece touches on a municipal award and notes King Malietoa Tanu’s salary and museum duties in a reflective, period tone.
William A. Eddy, a Bayonne kite expert and former tornado reporter, explains that warm air meeting cold air causes tornadoes. He notes the safest area in a struck house is the southwest corner of the cellar, as wreckage tends to move north and east. He cites Louisville 1890 with 71 deaths and massive property loss, and Kansas Missouri as the tornado center. Finley’s corps classified 2000+ tornadoes, finding most tracks run southwest to northeast.
Official records describe Japanese workers beginning at daylight and ending at sundown with short breaks. Women and children in farming join in busy seasons while urban children start work by age eleven or twelve. Husbands make goods in workshops while wives and children sell them in attached stores. Rice dominates diet. meat and dairy are rare and pastry is uncommon.
A South Ado woman believes her Gordon setter Dan understands human speech after years of experience. She spelled bones and chicken to warn her sons, and the dog rose, followed the scent, and checked the bones, illustrating uncanny intelligence.
Cassier's Magazine notes a planned installation at Lot's Road pumping station by the London County Council comprising eight large gas engines. Four engines are 160 HP and four are 210 HP, forming what may be the largest such plant to date and signaling promise for large scale engine reliability and economy.
Philip and Amine confront a mysterious phantom ship as Krantz contends with fear among the crew. After a calm spell, Utrecht reaches Dutch Boton then nears New Guinea where a sudden current drives the ship aground on a sand bank. The company builds a two-part raft and presses on with boats, hoping for rescue while Amine stays steadfast aboard the raft and in the boats.
Chapter XXIV describes a calm morning as the crew completes a raft, stows water and provisions, secures Amine in a dry area, and loads muskets and ammo. The men indicate they will seize money aboard, pressuring Philip to yield, while he plans to assert authority at a future landing.
A Natal road party encountered a giant mamba beneath a rock. A young Kaffir boy chewed an herb secret, rubbed it on his body, and slew the snake with a stick. He suffered no bite, and the antidote remains a family secret among Zulus.
A distressed exchange centers on Weary Watkins claiming two days without food, rebutted by a victim who recalls a prior claim. The dialogue underscores ongoing famine pleas and a harsh insistence on aid.
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