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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1899
Page
4
Aunt Miss Maywood discloses Elsie is her foundling, born eighteen years earlier with a note promising support. Arthur Glidden, the suitor, vows love, and the couple marries. The missing parentage is solved by a second note found in an attic bucket, proving Elsie is Arthur's beloved child.
The Dutch West India Company urged colonists to support a minister and a schoolmaster and to appoint comforters of the sick. Seventeenth century doctors clung to humors and sympathies, using simples, minerals and moonlit herbs. They dressed richly to impress patients, rode in coaches, and claimed cures despite limited medical knowledge.
An American surgeon from Snickersville paid over $500 for a European mudstone said to cure mad dog bites. The oval dark brown stone, about the size of a shilling, allegedly works if treated promptly. A cited case reports two bites from the same dog. one victim believed in the stone and recovered, the other did not.
About 1,500 people are listed as royal household staff for twenty two crown palaces and castles. Among them 350 are women servants paid up to 12.50 dollars monthly while male servants earn 15 to 25 dollars each month.
The record lists Turkey at 34 years of war in the current century, followed by Spain 31, France 27, Russia 24, Italy 23, Great Britain 21, Austria 17, Holland 14, Germany 18, Sweden 10, Portugal 10, and Denmark 9. The figures show long ongoing conflicts shaping 19th and early 20th century geopolitics.
European gossip centers on Queen Wilhelmina's choice of a husband who would be her subject rather than king or prince. Possible suitors include Prince Alexander of Teck or Prince Willam of Wied, with the mate expected to bear the title of queen's husband and abide by all laws like a commoner.
An old Scotch woman famed for kindness sees light in every darkness. A gos siping neighbor yells at her to speak for the devil. Her prompt reply earns a wry amusement. In contrast, the sultan’s household reportedly consumes nearly 20 000 pounds of bread daily.
A French contemporary quoted by the London Chronicle grumbles that English greed pushes plovers eggs to 24 percent more in Paris. The complaint need not be taken as a universal view.
Dix muses on why a doctor avoids self prescription and jokes it may be because he cannot bill himself for care.
A Catholic chapel has been built on the spot where Maximilian Miramon and Mejia were executed in Queretaro. The small but active project marks a historical site with spiritual significance.
The Deering Horizontal Corn Binder is praised as a practical, reliable machine. It uses roller and ball bearings, is light for two horses, and minimizes side draft while preventing loose ears from scattering across the field.
The exchange shows Hardacre and Zeke replying to an ad offering a church organ for a dollar. Crawfoot asks what he received. Hardacre sends a sample copy of the New Light declaring it the best church organ published.
Do Your Feet Ache and Burn Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot Ease a powder for the feet It makes tight or new shoes feel easy Cures corns bunions swollen hot and sweating feet At all druggists and shoe stores 25c Sample sent free Address Allen 8 Olmsted LeRoy N Y.
Innett questions Woodby about a suit with Miss Rockford. Woodby replies the matter is settled, noting he was struck in the solar plexus and that she delivered a clean mitten, indicating a decisive confrontation.
A vintage advertisement promotes Lane's Family Medicine claiming daily bowel movement support. It is said to act gently on the liver and kidneys and cures sick headache. Prices listed as 25 and 50 cents.
In a candid exchange, Nell and Belle-Well discuss Nell kissing Cholly last night, noting mixed opinions. Nell defends the kiss as not rough, while Belle-Well agrees, contrasting with harsher behavior some others exhibit.
An old advertisement claims a positive remedy for chronic constipation using Cone to Lub Casecreta Candy Cathartic. It promises cure guaranteed with pricing 10c 5c and 50c and notes a department of commerce planned by the British government.
The ad promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as an internal remedy priced at 75 cents. It notes an English residents in Rome background claim and mentions a free hospital for English residents in Rome.
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