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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1901
Page
2
The Chicago Tribune presents bold, independent coverage with sharp political insight. It touts comprehensive local and foreign news, a concise daily summary, and the strongest sporting section in the region.
The article outlines how royal jewel collections are safeguarded. It notes the Russian imperial trove kept in a fortified castle by retired officers and soldiers, Italy’s treasures under a fortress on a Tiber island, and other monarchies storing gems in banks and vaults in London Paris and Lotten banks. It cites the czar, Prince of Bulgaria, King Milan of Serbia, and German royal jewels as examples of guarded wealth.
The historical committee of the Society of California Pioneers confirms the exact date of California gold discovery as January 4, 1848. James W. Marshall found gold in the rocky bed of the Sutter sawmills at Coloma on the South Fork of the American River after reviewing several statements.
The Glasgow Daily Mail now the oldest daily in Scotland after a name change from North British Daily Mail. It notes the Kelso Mail and Aberdeen Journal, alongside the Glasgow Herald, as historic papers, but the Mail is the oldest daily.
Items request residents to leave belongings at the northwest corner of Forty-eighth and Austin avenues. Clarence McGinnis and John Rushton set to join the navy in New York. Obituaries: Mrs. Dorpals aged 63 of 2411 Ohio street and Mrs. Holand of 2536 616 street. Hip injury for Mrs. Mary Bubb and a birthday celebration hosted by Miss E Phil. Social highlights include a surprise party for Miss Amy Sharp at 2449 Ohio street and a gathering at Miss Layson’s home with music and dancing.
On Tuesday evening March 12 Rehberg and Catlin's dancing academy hosts a grand entertainment at Reh bore's Hall North Party-eighth avenue and West Indiana street. The Genow and the Stanley quartet perform with Miss Sallie Catlin and Miss Mamie Corlett singing and dancing. Ladies 25 cents. gentlemen admitted.
The article recounts exotic draft teams and eccentric turnouts from history. It notes rhinoceroses in Indian royal processions, zebras driven by Walter Rothschilds’s team, dogs and foxhounds pulling carts, ostriches used as mounts, a bear carriage in Vienna halted by police, and an Englishman aged 97 traveling in an oyster-tub cart drawn by a pig and other animals.
A modern verse recounts a learned astronomer who spurns earthly life and studies stars. He rejects worldly wealth and pursues science with a telescope, then looks back to learn about his birthplace in Baltimore, finding wonder in common things.
Chester Comstock yields to his wife's political schemes aided by Maurice Fox and Weldon the pensioner. A saloonkeeper uses his vote to sway delegates but Comstock refuses the dirty deal and vows to quit politics after a dramatic confrontation in the library ending the bid.
A New York Herald piece recounts Apache chiefs Victoria Nana and Geronimo with 100 followers attempting to stop a UP train at Green River Wyoming. The chiefs tested dispatch by salt and feet vibration, selecting men for hazardous trips based on rapid, regular foot strokes rather than long, irregular motions.
The London usurer Sam Lewis left a million and sparked gifts revealed after his death. He rose fast in wealth, rarely lost at gaming, and refused loans to the poor yet helped an artist with a £50 note when asked for a loan he could not afford. The tale tests claims that only the dead retain his possessions.
Russia's rivers rise near each other on the north plateau, enabling under 400 miles of canals to connect Archangel to Astrakan, St. Petersburg to the Urals, and the Baltic to the Black Sea by three routes, bringing Moscow and inland cities into direct water communication with the empire.
In Tallahatchie Mississippi Anthony Holland and his wife were found dead in a wood near their home. Initially the wife was deemed accidentally shot and the husband killed himself in grief. On appeal evidence showed the wife’s body was warm when found, indicating she survived him. The court so decided and the estate settlement was revised accordingly.
A fragmented note notes corkscrews and cork jackets as unsafe or ineffective, contrasting with calls for better protective gear. It highlights a need for practical safety measures over improvised solutions.
A Cairo dispatch says the Sudanese government will issue hunting licenses for big game with strict limits. A 25 pound license covers four buffaloes two elephants one giraffe six hippopotamuses two rhinoceroses and various antelopes gazelles and warthogs with add on fees per animal. Ivory duty applies. Military authorities aim to curb wanton destruction as rare antelope species gain protection in a forthcoming edict.
Sir George Williams founder of the London YMCA in 1844, now 80, may attend the association's jubilee convention in Boston in June. He is currently in southern Europe for his health. The press committee has received from London the earliest portraits extant of Sir George.
The fruit, vegetable and flower exhibit in Houston, Texas, surprised both locals and visitors with a remarkably fine display. The vivid arrangements impressed many who did not expect such quality in this show.
Chicago News notes a surge in shortcuts within the downtown district as pedestrians weave through rotundas and private passages. From Van Buren to State and Quincy streets to La Salle, workers now travel block lengths via hotel lobbies, office blocks, and building corridors. Suburban visitors especially favor routes through the Rialto, Rand McNally, and Board of Trade structures landing near Adams Street.
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