08 May 1896
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1896
Page
1
A collage of items notes labor, illiteracy rates, a Chicago corner lot sale, a school injury suit in Arcola, Cuban war moves, Spanish loan talks, a highway robbery ruse, and Mrs. Felton appearing before Congress, reflecting late 19th century news quirks.
The remark suggests the X ray could locate and remove teeth without pain, forecasting rapid dental breakthroughs within days.
The New York World reports Dr. Achilles Rose of 336 East 16th Street swims each frigid dawn from a bathhouse at East 65th Street. At 7 a.m. in 6.4 degrees below zero he dives, aided by hot water for feet and hands, claiming the cold bath refreshes muscles and vitality.
While studying at the Royal Academy Millais befriended Potherd. Years later Millais spots a familiar cloaked figure, exclaims his identity, and learns his former friend now judges Millais’s success with irony.
The article notes substantial foreign demand for copper with over one third of 30,000,000 pounds produced going abroad. It cites 1806 prospects for major companies Anaconda Calumet Teel and Boston Montana, plus optimism for smaller firms to boost output this year.
The item lists Fanny Davenport’s real estate income in New York, Julia Marlowe Taber’s planned Italy visit this summer, and Henry Arthur Jones new play with Willard as a strong imposter role. It notes Clyde Fitchings working with Nat Goodwin and Nathan Hale as hero in a Brady production, plus George Marion as Dominico in A Daughter of the Tenements. Emma Wamnes tops Mapleson Opera. New York engagement starts October 21. Canary and Lederer plan I Tell You.. for May at the New York Casino. Indianapolis Journal quotes.
The article details Queen Victoria’s 1890s Riviera sojourns in southern France with Cimiez as her preferred spring retreat. It notes Grand Hotel de Cimiez ownership, room arrangements, and Royalties visiting nearby towns such as Aix-les-Bains Grasse and Hyeres, including specific accommodations and costs.
In Orford New Hampshire Nettie Wright confesses to robbing the Platt house and arson to conceal the theft. Her brother A E Gage and Deacon Chandler are jailed while Charles Wright is cleared. Bonds and remaining valuables are missing as authorities pursue hidden assets.
In Sturgeon Bay three young men Delos Richardson Harry Melton and Joseph Harrington formed a human ladder to rescue a girl on the third story as fire consumed the home of banker James Keogh. The trio climbed from ledge to ledge, lowered the girl to safety, and then the roof collapsed five minutes later.
A Greenwich shoemaker Francis Duff claims a wooden and iron model could run vehicles ships and submarines by an unknown power called perpetual motion. He shows thirty wheels and fifteen axles but worries the first wheel may be the sole obstacle to success. The piece also notes the moon tied timing of the Olympic festival and sacred truce in Elis.
May Abbott, famed Georgia electric magnet, entertains in Japan challenging strong men from China and Japan. Japanese wrestlers fail to lift her. she easily neutralizes their efforts with fingertip strength. Some papers call it hypnotism while Chinese journals accuse her of evil influence.
The Reverend W R Hunt argues that nature and God are not separate or perceivable as tangible things. He contends nature cannot be fully felt or tested while God remains an abstraction.
Rev. D. M Kirkpatrick notes that women show greater religious fervor than men, citing their presence among the last at the crucifixion and pointing to biblical times as evidence of women’s deeper devotion.
Chas Burns aged 19 shot himself in Bridgeport Connecticut street. He told doctors he had deceived his mother about earnings from a store job paying $20 weekly and planned to delay sending money. He planned to end the lie by taking his own life. he later said he would recover.
Hamilton Cruzen, wealthy farmer living near Oskaloosa Iowa, returned home to a ransacked house and found himself dead in the coal shed with a torn vest lining and a missing $50 pocketbook. Authorities suspect a religiously troubled man acted in a delusion, robbing his own home before taking his life.
The arch span of the new bridge across Niagara Gorge will be 350 feet long with the arch center 170 feet above the water. The bridge floor will be 46 feet wide to accommodate two trolley tracks, an eight foot roadway on each side, and a sidewalk of three feet nine inches on each outer edge.
Asbury Park’s milliner Mme Grison, dubbed Professor Mme Grison, rides to the shore on her wheel and advocates making Shark River a harbor of entry. She petitions Congress with nearly 7000 signatures to survey the inlet and assess feasibility. Engineer Kelly supports a harbor at low cost while Grison remains active at 60, cycling gracefully.
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