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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1901
Page
3
Mr. B Braird is ill with tonsillitis and several residents plan trips to Florida and California. social events include dancing classes, birthday parties, club meetings and church suppers. Local residents entertain guests from Chicago and New Orleans while churches host lectures and missionary reports.
Oak Park residents undertake travels for business and pleasure with many departures to California Dakota Texas and Florida. Local clubs museums and gatherings include the Agassiz Club exhibit at Scoville Institute and a Cook Co Staff GA R reception and banquet in Odd Fellows Hall.
The 35th ward primary last Friday produced Alderman Race as the nominee with Show and Olk as runners. A temporary chairman and secretary led the convention, ballots favored Race, and Lindstrom swung to Race on the second ballot. Race pledged to serve the common people amid mild East End tensions and praise for Lundin.
The Thirty-fifth ward Republican primary results show district leads. Fourth district: one delegate race 73 for Race and 56 for Shaw across two delegates. Fifth district: Show leads Guy 73 to ? in votes. Sixth district: Olk leads 175. Seventh district: Olk leads 107.
Ground is broken for a new livery barn in Oak Park on Marion street, north of Lake street. The project costs about $10,000 and measures 55 by 115 feet. It will be two stories high with a pressed brick front. Architects Fromman and Jebsen. contractor Charles Norling leads the build. Investor Edward G. Ashlen of Milwaukee supplies the capital.
Satisfied customers commend the D. and H. Lackawanna Coal for reducing furnace and stove running costs. Collins and Harrison sell it in Trail and Cooling’s Drug Stores. The Mississippi branches total about 15 000 miles in length.
A pithy observation notes that a man’s reputation is shaped by the company his wife’s relatives keep, suggesting such associations mark him as an easy target. The line implies social judgment based on seemingly minor affiliations.
The Cicero town Republican convention, chaired by Lot Brown and with Joseph Muir as secretary, approved a strong ticket led by Oscar D. Allen for president. Contenders include John W. Langston for assessor, Chas. J. Linden for supervisor, W. G. Dunham for collector, and Lawrence Crook for four-year trustee, with Arthur J. Kendall re-nominated for police magistrate and several Justices of the Peace.
Ed Sneider visits Minnesota contact C White while Dolly Merry hosts a March 7 recital at Kimball Hall. Flora Arche from Chicago visits her sister Mrs. Van de Lee. Water was supplied from River Forest during a waterworks repair. Waldheim Cemetery gains a new wire fence as improvements proceed. Martin Grosse of Marengo celebrated his birthday on March 4. Architect Roberts of Oak Park drafts plans for the Jacobi building at Madison and Hannah near the Harlem Savings Bank. A Hintz’s Hall meeting on Des Plaines avenue forms a civic slate with George Schrader chairing and Daniel Werich as Civic Federation president guiding an independent primaries caucus for village officers. Leading candidates for president include A Kisten broker, Otto Gorke, and Joseph Klimmer, with Herman Shultz for trustee and Henry Miers for clerk and more candidates in the field.
Andy Maas suffers a severe grippe. A Ashland Avenue child ill with scarlet fever. Mrs. Grant hosts a Forest Avenue at home for ladies. River Forest Musical Society entertained at Mrs. Klock’s. A domino party planned next. Ground broken for a Franklin Avenue house. Baker family returns from three weeks east and south. Card party honors husband’s birthday. a German night hosted by Mrs Walsh with twenty couples attending. Two umbrella menders steal rubber boots on Lake Street. Moore reports four feet of snow in St. Lawrence County. An unconscious man found on Henry Street saved by Officer Wilmeroth. River Forest Women’s Club holds all day session with reports, luncheon, and elections. Officers listed. next lectures on Primitive Art to begin.
Five-cent fare reform groups are formed in Maywood River Forest Harlem and Melrose Park. A joint meeting will set plans for a campaign. Maywood members are Charles Westcott H P Nichols and J S Stevens. Melrose Park members are Frederick Dunnebecke S M Bloss and Rev Father Burlebach. River Forest members are Henry Struble Frank Little and F I Monroe. Harlem members are George Schrade Frank Lehmann and August Thorde.
Officers of the Harlem Citizens' Club were elected at a Monday evening gathering. The group formed after a two week old call listing ten reasons the current village administration is a failure. President D. Ellerich leads, with Rev. Herman Samuel as vice president and Dr. O. K. Handke as secretary and treasurer. Nominees to be announced next week.
The International Forest Fish and Game Exposition continues at the Coliseum and will close Tuesday March 12. Those who can should see this wonderful exposition at once, with hours listed for next Sunday from ad o'clock to p.m.
J. D. Rockefeller Jr. advised a college acquaintance seeking fortune in New York to stay home and work there. He said chances for poor young men were not better in New York and often were not as good elsewhere.
Measurements indicate a meteorite in Porto Alegre Brazil measured 17 meters at the base and 26 meters high, making it the largest meteorite known. The discovery comes as details of its fall and size circulate among scientific circles and local observers.
The text emphasizes regular exercise as crucial to health and organ balance. It notes inactivity causes atrophy, while muscular activity aids circulation skin function and blood oxygenation. It cautions older adults to pace activity within their limits and avoid overexertion.
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