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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1901
Page
6
Rev. A M White delivers a youth address. Edna Crans visits friends. families relocate and celebrate births. alumni events, receptions, and fishing trips fill a bustling suburban scene. Notables include Yagers, Ladover, and the Austin High School Alumni event. Several dinners and musicales feature local residents.
Oak Park residents share summer movements with Rev W E Barton leaving July 1 for Massachusetts and several families headed to Michigan Wisconsin and Illinois summer homes. A grand lawn fete, a stereopticon lecture on Salvation Army work, and a naphtha-hulled boat launch are among events. T P Giddings plans a Mississippi river trip aboard the Audacio with his family and a music-teaching post at Oak Park schools.
A claim holds that Washington has fewer gum chewers than any city of its size in America. People chewing gum on streets draw remarks while cigarettes are said to be smoked more daily here than in nearly all comparable regions except the far south.
The Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor at First Congregational Church Austin hosts a 6:15 p m temperance meeting Sunday June 23 with the church branches and friends attending a rousing rally. Lloyd K Marshall the temperance orator will address the gathering and a fine musical program is planned.
The first band concert of the season will be Tuesday evening June 25 at Scoville Place Oak Park avenue and Lake street with thirty five musicians from the Pullman band. The program features works by Mendelssohn Delibes Desormes Luders and others.
The East Nineteenth Century Club held a year end reception at Mrs. Wright’s home at 400 West Willow Avenue. Retiring president Mrs. Wm. Street presented a well written outline of the year’s work, accompanied by guitar duets and games. About sixty members attended and light refreshments were served.
Royal League members of Austin Council and North American Union will play baseball at Merrick Park on Saturday June 29. Only members may enter the contest and the game is promised to be very interesting.
An ad boasting 100 Lackawanna coal buyers and 99 pleased purchasers promotes the coal as the best mined. It invites customers to call telephone number 41 in an office with Traill & Cooling, Barr & Collins.
A Kansas authority says the barometer of financial conditions is citizen optimism. When people feel rich they back bold schemes to bore for oil gas or other riches. This tendency has yielded coal gas oil and salt fields and is to be encouraged. About fifty towns are currently boring holes.
A reflective essay critiques market rumors in grain trading, warns against unreliable reports, and notes the link between harvest prospects and bread prices. It also contrasts speculative greed with moral guidance from scripture cited as a warning about tares and fruit. The piece connects global wheat production shifts to domestic meat prices and farm land use.
Mr and Mrs W O Cline of 5826 Cedar Street celebrated their twelfth anniversary on Thursday evening June 20 with 50 to 60 guests. The Austin mandolin orchestra provided music and decorations featured white and pink roses.
The article notes teak as a principal Siamese industry and a premier wood for shipbuilding. Consul General Hamilton praises its moisture resistance, pest resistance, durability, lightness, and ease of working. It maintains high demand for fine finishing and armor plate backing, with no substitute found yet despite iron contact effects.
Oak Park Tennis Club announces its annual handicap tournament starting Saturday June 22 at South Kenilworth Avenue grounds with play from 2 30 daily and finals on June 29 Visitors invited The town championship follows for Oak Park residents Ladies Day highlighted and a special joining rate offered before July 1 Officers listed including President Edgar W Carne and Secretary J R McGregor Communications to J R McGregor 733 North Kenilworth Avenue Oak Park Illinois.
A farmer near Marceline Kansas writes to the railroad claims department after his cow Spot the ten year old Musse Fork is killed by a passing train. He asks for $25 to replace the cow to provide milk for his wife and five children and to care for a calf.
The Koreans are inveterate users of green tobacco fed through pipes with tiny bowls and two to three foot stems. They carry their pipes down the back of the neck when not in use. Drinking is common, despite many proverbs condemning it.
Russian girls studying in Paris number about 130, mostly Jewish, supported by monthly family allowances of around $20. They pay for board and living expenses while pursuing scientific courses, literature, and philosophy, showing diligence and dedication.
Dr Josiah Oldfield writes to all Church of England bishops seeking views on capital punishment and reports that none favored abolition. The note frames the bishops' stance as uniform against ending the death penalty.
Informal dance by the Young People's Club last Saturday. Paul Anderson returns from months of prospecting in Oklahoma. Union Sunday School picnic by Presbyterian and Methodist with Oak Park Methodists to be held at Mill Creek next Sunday. Sunday Schools met with Mrs. Maas to hear Bloomington convention report. Eighth grade closed with Merchant of Venice scene. Jesse Dobe and Alice Fair head of Oak Park wed at John Matthews home. Rev Stough officiated. Village board adjourned Monday June 17 approving Cicero Gas Company mains connection to Maywood. Cement sidewalks on improved streets approved.
A young author who recently earned a financial hit from a popular novel said she did not know what to do with the money yet. Upon receiving her first check she went downtown and bought two dozen shirtwaists.
A Porto Rico letter notes widespread poverty yet enduring happiness. It describes simple housing from tree parts, gourds as containers, year round fruit and vegetable abundance, two corn crops, and a warm climate with no need for winter clothing or extra fuel.
The article notes the first general Russian census occurred in January 1897, with vast difficulties in verification. It contrasts Russia’s crude methods with Western nations, mentions prior censuses aimed at taxable males, and recalls the 1724 count of about 14 million rising to 129 million in 1897, including Finland.
The Othello Club enjoyed a picnic to Lombard last Sunday. John Burke moves his saloon from Hanna street to 12th street. Mary Quail, longtime Harlem resident, was buried Monday at Waldheim aged 68. Emil Sebing of Elm street died June 15 aged 31. funeral June 18 at Concordia. School closes Thursday and Friday for exams and a picnic. Richard Radke wins the twelfth grade gold medal for scholarship. The school board rejects all bids for a south side school addition. lowest bid exceeds the $12 500 bond by about $5 500.
A superior court judge in Georgia denounces progressive euchre as a crime and a moral offense. He vows to end the practice, directing grand juries to indict players for prize games and promising no favoritism toward any group in town.
Police raided a building in McKeesport Pennsylvania once used as a pesthouse finding a lively poker game and a fully operational speakeasy with a large number of African American patrons. Small pox however posed no apparent concern to those inside.
A reader urges proper repair standards, arguing gloves should not be mended with sik thread but cotton to match shade. The note also cautions against worn gloves with holes and extends the advice to torn veli.
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