27 Mar 1896
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1896
Page
1
A string of satirical takes on politics religion and society. The remarks reference King Menelek primaries Keelys vote and a possible future president along with opinions on curfews lobbying Os Chicago schools and a St Petersburg Ia hold up linked to a matrimonial angle.
The remark recalling Lady Henry Somerset’s stance against William Waldorf Astor highlights calls for a capable editor for his paper. The story notes editorial oversight concerns and ongoing public discourse on how the publication handles criticism.
In New York sixty women have volunteered to wear bloomers and wait on patrons of a restaurant. The idea may extend to confinement of bloomers to eating houses in time.
A St Louis man complains of seeing strange things and ghosts at night. He predicts that next June he will hear many strange sounds not produced by ghosts, indicating an unusual sequence of events or experiences to come.
Four women in Chicago were arrested and each listed wife and mother as their occupation. The group appears aimed at attracting attention from dime museum misusers, signaling a possible staged or deceptive scheme.
William Booth annual report shows United States members doubled in five years before Ballington Booth's removal, reflecting growth noted in the Salvation Army census.
Susan B. Anthony Rev Anta Shaw and Elizabeth Yew Yates unite in a California push to strike the word male from the constitution, signaling a broad push for gender equality and suffrage. The unlikely coalition signals a high profile reform campaign in a pivotal state.
The piece notes opportunistic sand-bagging and pocket picking in politics. It mentions Mr Ray flourishing his $1,000 in Washington with a bet on his favored candidate, suggesting the money would have been spent anyway.
Acting Secretary McAdoo prescribes regulations for a 25000 appropriation to naval militia. Of this, 1000 is set aside to supply instructional books to state organizations. Governors must certify counts of commissioned officers warrant officers petty officers and enlisted men and militia division locations to the navy department.
In Bloomington an individual stole a red-hot stove from a residence, reked over the fire in the front yard, and carried the stove off to sell it as old iron. If this is reflective of broader robberies, it has not been widely noted elsewhere.
An investigation revealed a single towel was used to serve sixty three prisoners for an entire week at the Baltimore jail. The towel, now reported in good condition, is slated for continued duty in a country facility.
St Louis political delegation amid a national committee struggle for the June convention teased superstition with luck charms and a rabbit foot tale. Ex congressman Nathan Frank, wary of the number 13, faced delays, room 13, and a sequence of thirteen ballots before victory, culminating in a joke about fate and a final gift of a rabbit foot and pill.
The looming sale threatens the James Russell Lowell mansion at Mount Auburn cemetery gateway Cambridge. The property, owned by the poet’s daughter, sits between fate agents lands and planned building lots, risking loss of a historic house that attracts visitors nationwide and could become a museum.
A Swiss invention by Casimir Livan presents a watch that calls the hours in a voice resembling a human. The device uses a phonographic cylinder and a photographic plate to capture and reproduce the sound, differing from costly watches that rely on striking mechanisms.
In Afar mouth Me one public school has thirteen pupils, the oldest aged thirteen, while the teacher marks his thirteenth term. All students are well and the school is recording unusually good progress.
The eighty foot high etanut plaque in Lekkerkevi is famed as the world’s most celebrated delft piece. It bears a portrait of the eighteenth century Dateh giant, a noted figure of the era.
A Fresno divorce rate outpaced weddings by forty last year while Scotland’s constabulary ratio stands at one officer per 1273 people. British rivers lead among similarly sized nations. Dr Aronson in Berlin infects a goat with tuberculosis and tests resistance. The Rothschilds own a $165,000 clock by Louis VII. Georgia peach crops fear frost. warmth swells buds, threatening yields. Seeley notes earthquake depths near thirty miles and granite melting depth nearby. Christmas customs mix Druidism pagan rites with Germanic origins. a Hindustanee carrier with eighty pounds travels over 100 miles in twenty-four hours, a feat demanding elite training.
A fragment notes a model seeking a life in glamour and fashion. The phrasing suggests a photographer’s studio setting and a focus on pose, lighting, and showcasing attire. The item reads as a brief cultural fashion note with minimal context.
A New York reporter details a forthcoming dog cemetery proposed by a female proprietor who will also offer dog burial services. She envisions flowery grounds, marked graves, and potential monuments, aiming to serve cherished pets with proper resting places next to human cemeteries. She plans to circulate notices via dog owners lists from the Bergh Society to build a customer base.
A tropical forest trek along a river in Honduras reveals tiger prints, tapir hooves, and red deer tracks in riverbank soils. A guide notes the scent from a gland behind a waree and points to a reddish animal gathering nuts while a monkey earlier plucked ripe fruit.
The sixth annual report of the state commission of lunacy cites 16 208 asylum admissions over six years. Among causes, excessive tobacco use drove 19 men and 3 women crazy, fear of punishment ruined a girl, and overwork toppled 242 men and 490 women. Moral causes impacted 902 men and 1 294 women, with instances from military hardship to a hair wash triggering insanity. The table derives from New York records.
A local writer argues dogs deserve decent post mortem treatment and criticizes city rules barring pet burial. He envisions a new pet undertaker near Calvary cemetery, offering proper disposition and a humane solution amid crowded, neglected graves. The piece blends social critique with vivid jungle imagery and a future business plan.
A Philadelphia Press letter advocates using tramps for road-building to improve roads and reduce the tramp population. It argues the unemployed live on the country and city, funded by taxation on farmers and urban workers. It calls for arresting tramps and forcing roadwork, claiming benefits of better roads or no tramps as a state blessing.
A Vale woman known as Gwenyen Gwent the Bee of Monmouthshire died aged 94. She funded Welsh literature and wore the Welsh beaver hat. Her husband, later elevated, inspired the name Big Ben as the great bell of Westminster.
The report details 9146 admissions to asylums over six years, showing 13 men and no women became insane from disappointment in love, wives eloping affected no women, 59 men versus none of the women under domestic trouble, 6 men from fright, and women largely spared. It notes hair dye, mesmerism, jealousy, overwork, temperance, and other factors with gendered differences.
Practical asks if architecture is a good and profitable study for women and answers yes. It urges new methods and ground plans, noting many leading architects use small houses with a single chimney in the middle, which fails to keep homes cool in summer. It argues women should take up the business.
In this excerpt Grains of Gold urges holding to truth to benefit eternity. It argues knowledge grows through sharing, promotes love as the guiding law, and says retaliation through criticism worsens health, urging better work as true triumph.
Chicago theaters report Stuart Robson and company with Mrs Ponderbury's Past at the Schiller theater. Robson plays an absurd husband faced with his wife Henrietta Vaders who polices him over a photo of a concert hall woman. The plot blends Hoyte style suggestiveness with theatrical farce and a past scandal revealed at a pivotal moment.
A hungry tramp on K Street seeks food and is turned away by a society woman in a Washington Star narrative. He pleads his hunger, she refuses, and she closes the door, illustrating class tension and a cold reception to a stranger seeking aid.
Minnie Maddern Fiske and company begin an engagement next Monday evening March 30 at the theater. The three week run opens with A Doll's House and A Light from St Agnes. Also to be shown are Casanni Tanglish version of Dumaga Femme de Claude and two short plays This Pictura and That and A White Pink.
The third and final week of Miss Olga Nethersole at Hooley's opens next Monday after a strong second week in Carmen. Critics praise her portrayal as a striking and faithful study, noting Carmen as a heartless coquette and applauding the performance as a masterful effort.
Grand Opera House presents A Con tented Woman at Hoyt's Chicago run enters its second week next Sunday night. The play satirizes women in politics set in Denver with Benton Holme running for mayor and his wife nominated by suffragists and elected amid songs dances and a torchlight procession. Principal roles are played by William H Currie and Caroline Miskel Tomt with a strong supporting cast.
Dramatic news reports that Signora Duse agrees to waive objections to Chicago if a prearranged audience signs up for a three day subscription sale at McVicker's theater. A May 4 season is proposed with Camille Magda Fedora Cavalleria Rusticana and La Locandiera. Ticket prices: season 12.60 single 3.00.
In the Upper Amazon near St Pauls the organ bird fascinates Tadi and native families living in palm thatched huts. Its human like songs echo from the thickets, though no bird is seen. The bird rarely occurs in the Lower Amazons and astonishes river natives who pause paddling to listen.
A Toland Amsterdam discovery shows maps from 1705 to 1719 detailing Central Africa regions later re explored by Livingstone and Stanley. Based on Portuguese trader information, they plot the Congo river course under another name and include notes from Lake Victoria sources. The Zambesi area was better known to the Portuguese in 1700.
Big electrical plant planned near Horseshoe Bend on the Merced river would become the third largest in the United States, behind Niagara and Folsom. Located in a mining district with over 100 prospected mines, the developer expects 1,890 horsepower during the dry season and about 3,500 horsepower for eight months yearly. Proposed rate is five dollars per horsepower.
Report describes a formal opening where enough money was represented to have cleared Britain and the United States public debts, with a handsome surplus. The event underscores the value of achievement tempered by humility rather than vanity.
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