06 May 1898
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1898
Page
1
A late 19th or early 20th century Chicago weekly column offers satirical and serious takes on war time mood and public virtue. It mentions recruiting, diplomacy, reformers, and a New York clergyman predicting the end of the world, plus a humorous horse tale at a saloon. It weaves social commentary with wartime anxieties.
Southern railroad officials predict a thirty percent increase in horticultural shipments from the region, with Mississippi farmers expanding beyond tomatoes to vegetables for markets as far as Portland Maine and across the Atlantic. Fast freights and refrigerator cars enable longer routes, while disease once harmed crops is giving way to broader varieties and growing truck farming areas.
John Burroughs discusses The Song of Birds noting that caged birds lose much of their meaning and quality. He recalls Emerson and a skylark freed into a field brings renewed joy and memory, while a Scotch admirer finds deep nostalgia in hearing a skylark after decades.
A Brooklyn warehouse once used by jewelers contained several thousand dollars in gold in burned floors and walls. The process of burning floors to recover gold is used in various cities, including the United States assay office where a chimney was cleaned to reclaim gold and silver worth about $1,500. The Philadelphia mint also yields notable gold from floor sweeps. An accompanying portrait of Duse, the famed tragedienne, shows her tender maternal side with a child in her arms named Mar.
The Corcoran Art Gallery has received an oil portrait of George Washington eight by twenty four inches. It shows Washington in full continental uniform, standing as if about to address a speech. Discovered by William A Shaw in the Isle of Man, he bought it and offered it for sale. Senator Penrose is seeking to acquire it for the government.
Robert Jones in Chicago claims he killed Jennie Cramer for 250 dollars in a long-ago New Haven murder case. The tale recalls the Savin Rock body found on August harbor shore and the Malley brothers’ trial, with arsenic in the stomach and decades of public fascination. Police doubt the confession, noting lack of corroboration and the era’s sensational memory of the case.
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