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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1900
Page
4
A breezy collection of wry maxims on battle luck misers and dogs. The author muses that the first mover wins fights misery invites company invention feeds necessity and marriage may disappoint idealists who remain single. Sensible quips include pantry spots and nose ball humor.
Milk dealer W C offers ill. Davis of North Forty-eighth avenue ill with kidney inflammation. New brick chimney on Forty-ninth avenue and Lake street nearly completed. M EB Church lecture March 8 in Rheberg hall with Dr W B Leach and Ministers Quartet. Fire at H O Fisher's store suspected incendiary origin. extinguished by fire dept at 1 15 am Thursday. Lady Maccabees held a well attended charity event in Sayle's hall. prize winners named. Delos Arnold bound to grand jury on Feb 24 for election mix up. George Koch case hors de justice but may reappear. Macadamization proposal for streets rejected. opposition from large property owners. residents vow to push needs. Grand prize masquerade at Rehberg Catlin's Dancing Academy drew large crowd. juvenile cake walk prizes listed. adult prize winners named. Alderman Larson and the Swedish candidate noted among crowd. teaching staff listed for dancing event.
A Chicago Dispatch humorous column notes that humor can be vain and cites the cautious stance of monopolists. It reflects on liberty in Russia, hopeful schemes, and the social quirks of matchmakers after marriage. It ends with a quip about leaders and perceived value.
quips from Chicago and Pittsburgh papers appear with jokes about meals on street cars and sleeping cars on Philadelphia lines. Massachusetts honors display flags from the Civil War era in Boston's state house. Ellis Island plans a roof garden and wide floor space for immigrant housing, giving detainees a breathing place.
Describes express train service along the Nickel Plate road linking Chicago with Buffalo and passing through Fort Wayne Cleveland Erie Buffalo New York City Boston with intermediate points. Claims best rates and shortest Chicago Buffalo link. Porters in uniform attend to passengers in day coaches.
The Cicero town board approves a sidewalk on Thirteenth Street in Grant Works and grants C B & Q railroad permission to add a track across Forty-eighth Avenue. It authorizes final payment for Home Avenue sewer work, issues a $500 voucher, approves drainage and streets reports, and sets the next meeting for March 3, 1900. James A. Martin, town clerk.
A humorous sketch contrasts a literary man with bald head and long hair. It jokes that a wife becomes the better half by not publicizing herself as the whole, and notes fashion and photo quirks when women weigh more. A light satirical tone pervades the piece.
Berlin has sixty three public monuments. Half a million clerks are employed in London. Twenty five women have been hanged in England during Queen Victoria's reign. The assessed valuation of property in Los Angeles city California is over sixty five million. It is supposed the average depth of sand in Africa is thirty to forty feet. Dairying is developing rapidly in Georgia and a state dairymen association was organized. The Paris exposition has led to the discovery that a war has followed a big exposition. Boston had an automobile wedding recently. Eight automobiles were used to convey the bridal party. Verchoyansk in Oriental Siberia is the coldest inhabited country. The daily mean temperature for the year is 2.74 degrees below zero. Scene: The Rialto. First Actor How did you like my Romeo. Pretty good eh. Second Actor Good My dead boy good is not the word. Harlem. Lite.
The Chicago Tribune is described as likely to post the highest average in any national journalism competition, reflecting superior performance across all departments according to longstanding claims.
A Huntington West Virginia notice offers free full size samples of Dwight's Complexion Beautifier to every woman who sends her post office address and a dime for packing and postage. One free box per address. orders may be placed for friends as well.
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