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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1901
Page
5
The Chicago Tribune positions itself as a bright intelligent paper offering bold independent opinion while remaining fair to opponents. It touts extensive local and foreign news coverage, concise daily summaries, strong financial sections, and superior sports and Sunday sections.
The California orange crop may reach 9 000 to 21 000 car loads for eastern shipment, with the southern belt centered near Los Angeles expected to yield 19 000 to 20 000 car loads and Oroville-based northern belt 900 to 1 000 car loads. The season runs from November to about ten months full bearing, producing year round.
Residents along Emma Street near the high school complain that strong Hawaiian breezes cause tree limbs to swing wildly and endanger passersby. One woman reports her imported ostrich tip hat and chiffon lost to mud in a deflected gust.
A quotation by Henri Miller urges workers to approach labor generously with a hopeful spirit. It states that work can be elevated by a grateful mind and an up-looking heart, transforming even dull tasks into meaningful effort.
Rev. George A. Campbell will speak at Sayles Hall Forty-eighth avenue and Kinzle street Sunday at 7 45 p m on Dreams and Visions. Attendance at services is rising each Sunday and the new Union Christian Sunday School meets at 3 p m with prizes to be announced next Sunday. Invitations were sent to Mr Arthur Proelss Jr of 202 North Forty-eighth avenue for a surprise party at his home February 23 1901 attended by friends from Garfield Park Austin and Moreland. A sleighing party by Fortieth Street girls on February 23 1901 left Miss G Hamlin s 1904 Lake street for a dance and supper on Thomas street. Miss K Morey of Fifty third and Indiana street Austin hosted friends from Moreland Kedzie avenues on February 26 with a supper.
A New York man describes a hobby merchant near Union Square who builds lucrative client networks by advising people on which hobby to adopt. Doctors reportedly refer patients seeking hobby therapy, and the merchant supplies collections with 10 to 25 percent markup based on effort and difficulty.
A corrected Austin telephone list showing entries from Abbott to Zimmerman, with many business and individual names, organizations, and addresses. The alphabetical roster includes banks, hotels, merchants, and public offices, concluding with GEO. T. GIBBONS as Austin Manager.
The excerpt lists varied facts from currency inflation in China to city education spending in Butte Montana, and mentions Arctic ice affecting Newfoundland. It also notes John Adams as the oldest ex president at death and odd tips for removing gunpowder discoloration using kiycerine and oil.
A St Louis man enraged by three streetcars passing him in rain broke the pane of the fourth car and boarded it. He was arrested and brought before the police court where the judge fined him but later remitted the fine, citing sympathy for passengers ignored by streetcar service.
French astronomer Camille Flammarion describes lightning tales showing strange effects on people and objects. He cites a man knocked unconscious and flung fifty yards, two cows killed afar, soldiers struck under a tree, and bodies crumbling to dust, among other remarkable incidents.
A quirky, select group of about fifty active members meets daily in the cloak room of the House of Representatives. They draft their informal talks by the fire and debate humorous topics. Access is by honor, with roughly one hundred honorary members and no official power.
The article notes five minute limits on speeches with a speaker chosen by a vote of the house and able to supplant rivals by storytelling. Missouri’s Cochrane chairs with strong attendance from John Williams and Wilson nearby. Southern representation tops the North as delegates from the Mason and Dixon line frequently attend to outdo rivals with tales.
Bowdoin President Hyde outlines rules for pessimism urging passive voice subjunctive mood third person and pluralist standards to seek personal pleasure over growth. He counters with optimistic rules favoring active voice indicative present tense singular focus. The optimistic view is deemed more useful to the world.
A Windsor knighthood event for Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema is followed by an "at home" at his St John’s Wood house. An elderly visitor misstates that the knight should “lie like a gentleman” now, prompting a humorous exchange about the painter’s future.
Pliny notes the lquor of the cuttlefish used as ink by Romans. It was favored for quality over lampblack but not used freely due to its higher cost.
A New York Herald summary explains somnambulism as brain areas being awake while others sleep. It notes talking, writing, or solving problems can occur with no memory, and movements may show intelligence, with causes linked to cerebral origin similar to epilepsy.
In Fujiyama Japan a 93 year old woman led six other women over 60 who climbed the sacred mountain. The event is seen as a sign of progress for women in Japan, when women were once barred from ascending the peak.
Importation of silk worms and their eggs into Europe traces to the sixth century. Monks traveling in China as missionaries carried cocoons hidden in walking sticks and introduced silk production to European lands.
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