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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1900
Page
3
Poetic fragments describe love offerings and music poured to a beloved. The lines tell of songs and sighs fading as storm clouds pass across a gray sky and life feels insubstantial, with the beloved shadowed by fleeting moment.
M Delvalley rejects his son Andre's marriage to Noemie Durand, threatening disinheritance. Aunt Rose uses a secret charm to intercept the telegram and reveals a hidden family link, revealing Noemie is her niece and uniting the couple with the father’s consent.
Before the Boer War Sir George White suffered a leg injury that limited his mobility. Lord Wolseley advised keeping him at home, but White replied that his leg was fit for anything except running away. He soon departed for Natal by the next steamer amid war anticipation.
A mosaic map of France crafted from 106 gem cities and towns set in gold. Paris shines as a diamond and Havre as an emerald, Rouen as a sapphire, Nantes as a beryl, with sea in gray marble and rivers in platinum. The piece measures one meter by one meter and is framed in jasper.
The Corea kingdom is described as polite yet dirty with squalor among the masses, ruled as an absolute hereditary monarchy. It has 84,424 square miles and about 10.5 million people, with government led by ministers and six departments. Japan controls post, transport, customs, and telegraph, while tensions with Russia threaten war prospects.
A weary tale from a girl bachelor recalls a failed cooperative living venture with four women and a man. Disputes over thought harmony, duties, and personal liberty ended the arrangement, leaving the narrator to move her piano and recover from spine illness as the utopia dissolved.
Engineers in Puerto Rico study using river power to run electric lines along roads for inland products to reach harbors. Arecibo could yield 1500 horsepower Cameno 1200 and Luiza 1500 making the plan feasible for coastward transport.
New automobile stages on Fifth Avenue New York accommodate thirteen persons each.
A fat elderly woman attempted a cakewalk to the door of a Columbus Avenue car on Broadway. A polite man offered his seat and finally helped her sit. The gripman’s playful corkscrew stop halted her progress, drawing amused reactions from other passengers as the man resumed reading.
A New York Sun discussion notes that typewriter experts may overestimate their aid in identifying the writer. It cites that no two operators type exactly alike and adjustments or fingering can disguise a machine. The piece compares cheap and high class types and warns against exact machine identification.
The piece describes identity tickets carried by wounded soldiers from the Transvaal and Free State. Each card, green-backed with full owner details in English and Dutch, instructs to send the card to the nearest officer if killed or wounded. The Red Cross identity department will relay information to English authorities about wounded soldiers who may be taken prisoner.
A New York Press report details a Boers gunner near Modder River who dodged a deadly shell. The shell’s smoke ring warned him, and he instantly hid under a limber as bullets ripped the ground around.
A patent office examiner says inquiries about a self-fastening shoe string show great potential. He believes any practical device in this area could outproduce Klondike mine wealth.
A feature extols Dr William Rainey Harper president of the University of Chicago as a greatest worker of the day. It details his disciplined routine from 5 a.m. to his evening grind, his $2 million fundraising gift, and his aim to make the university the world’s greatest.
A London authority notes early telegraph poles misled bears in Norway by buzzing sounds linked to food, prompting rootings of poles. Woodpeckers and other birds then pecked to reach imagined insects, while some species adapted by nesting on wires for safety from snakes. A Natal bird moved its cradle nest to the wires, adding a second entrance for security.
The piece recounts Candia Crete enduring 24 years from 1645 to 1669 with 40000 Christian and 120000 Turk casualties, plus sieges of Constantinople, Gibraltar, Olmutz, Lucknow, Ladysmith, and Herat. It notes repeated attacks on Constantinople, Paris sieges, and famed holds such as Lucknow and Ladysmith.
The New York art world mourns Frederic E Church who died on the 7th of a mat in New York. Born in Hartford Connecticut, he studied under Thomas Cole in Catskill and joined the National Academy in 1849. His travels to South Africa and Labrador inspired major works including Icebergs exhibited widely.
The article notes Frederic E. Church traveled to the West Indies in 1886 and then Europe and the Holy Land, with several major works produced. It highlights The Great Fall of Niagara painted from the Canadian side in 1857, sold in New York in 1876 to the Corcoran Gallery for $12,500, and calls it the finest depiction of Niagara exhibited, earning a medal at the 1867 Paris Exposition.
An exchange between a regular and a city imperial volunteer in London highlights pride in being a volunteer. The speakers discuss freedom of the city and insulted status, with the volunteer asserting equality and a drink as common ground. The piece ends noting the CVs as an excellent body of men, free from side.
A chaplain aboard an army transport won attention from officers by distributing tracts and prayers at breakfast. He declared tracts were trumps and offered his reading material, earning cooperation as he presented his case with tact.
The Siamese king selects Bar on Prasiddhi, also called Phya, a capable Siamese official in his forties, to represent Siam in Washington and London based on his military and civil aptitude and prior knowledge of U S and U K affairs.
A vintage advertisement for Allen’s Foot- Ease powder claiming to ease tight shoes and cure corns bunions swollen hot and sweating feet. Sold by druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents. Sample sent free. Address Allen S Olmsted LeRoy New York.
The text lists sound speeds in air at 1,142 feet per second, in water at 4,900 feet per second, and in iron at 17,500 feet per second. It presents a basic comparative note on travelling speed of sound through various materials.
An advertisement promotes Kemp’s Balsam as a cough remedy with samples available at drugstores. It markets 25 and 50 cent bottles and urges immediate use to avoid delays. A separate note touts Dr H H Green’s Dropsy treatment as offered by Atlanta specialists with another column containing the ad.
A fragmentary note on dialect speech cites a Washington Star item about linguistic authority and the claim that proper speech is taught in schools. The dialogue features Pic canniny Jim and his mother debating vernacular versus taught diction.
The doctrine that an agent cannot purchase for personal benefit is extended in Kimball v Raney (Mich) 46 L. R. A. 403 to a foreclosure sale where an agent was hired to facilitate the mortgage property sale.
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