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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1900
Page
3
A rural dialect poem compares dropping pebbles and unkind words to ripples spreading across a river. Each kind word creates a wave of comfort that travels far, while unkindness fades quickly yet leaves a lasting, widening impact on others.
A Genoan artisan Giuseppe Giovani dedicates two years to crafting a set of heavenly chimes in a cathedral workshop. After his father’s death and his own illness, his bells are sold to satisfy debts, forcing him to roam the world in search of his lost bella and sonorous voices.
An exhausted old man, pursued by time, travels toward a ferry on the Shannon near Limerick. He gazes at Hereford Cathedral spire as bells chime. He dies in the boat, the ferryman noting his face is cold.
Bland Huddleston argues against intrusive visitors in patient rooms. He notes mothers and grandmothers shield patients from outsiders but family pressure keeps doors open. Physicians fear losing popularity, and tactless neighbors can hinder care, sometimes causing deaths. A sympathetic, moderate presence is best for convalescence.
A landmark program to canalize and irrigate arid lands advances with new funding and expanded projects. Officials say the effort will boost farm output, create jobs, and support water management across multiple counties.
A Boise Idaho letter extols irrigation as the lifeblood of the West, detailing irrigation’s birth in 1847 under Brigham Young, its boost to Idaho and Utah, and Idaho’s fruitful crops from apples to prunes. It highlights mining, markets, and strong climate as factors drawing homeseekers, with Oregon Short Line aiding settlement.
The Tadtion' Howe Journal notes a drop in the number of women in business roles and predicts a continued decline. It argues men did not oppose women at work, but profit motives and lower wages for women led to increased hiring of incompetent female help, followed by a reckoning as prosperity returns.
Dr Cyrus Edson spoke before the Hundred Year club on the causes of natural death and how to attain a long useful life. He argued city dwellers live longer by exercising mental powers and following plain food, fresh air, moderate sleep, and regular exercise. He cited Thomas Parr’s famed longevity and noted brain worker life expectancy around 67 years.
A letter argues for a vanished race of 12 to 20 foot giants in North America, citing 20 inch footprints in red sandstone, a lime-filled petrified body found in the Grand Canyon, and widespread traditions in Mexico and Peru. The tale recounts explorers Hull and Lavelle discovering a stone giant, with details of a colossal nude figure and damaged limbs, amid prehistoric mammal giants.
Moda of Yokohama, representing major Japanese fish importers, says salmon supplies in Japan have grown scarce after a Russian and Qissian law edged them out of Siberian waters. He reports Japan will look to the U S Pacific coast for a supply, possibly paying 40 000 to 90 050 dollars per shipment, and notes early attempts are experimental.
The text notes that May and November are peak marriage months and that power people show higher marriage rates. It suggests widowed men often marry older widows, while widowers marrying maids tend to be with younger partners, highlighting age dynamics in spouse choice.
Thomas Tate writes from Duhamel Alberta on January 24 1900 recounting a winter journey to Wetaskiwin buying a pony and saddle for a boy hiring a three seated rig and returning home to news of thawing ground. He notes cold spells 32 below zero but says they suffer little and describe building a log house two stables and a well with 19 cows three other cattle and six horses while sending regards to Mr Hutchison and promising to write again in spring.
A brief cartoonish exchange features the Sweet Young Thing asserting the groom is the most frightened at a wedding, with the Savage Bachelor agreeing that fear signals sense, as cited by the Indianapolis Press.
An ad claims Lane's Family Medicine aids digestion and bowel movements daily, acts gently on the liver and kidneys, and cures sick headache. It lists prices of 25 and 50 cents.
A study notes that of 7,100 men admitted to a state prison in a given period, 6,000 confessed to being drunkards, highlighting a high level of alcohol abuse among entrants.
Advertisement touts Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets to cure a cold in one day. It promises full refund if not cured and notes E. W. Grove’s signature on each box along with Brown's Teething Cordial warranty and non return.
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