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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1900
Page
7
A vintage ad touts Bucklen's Amica Salve as a cyclist’s friend for painful cuts sprains and bruises. It claims to kill pain heal injuries cure chafing chapped hands sore lips burns ulcers and piles for 25 cents, sold by Traill & Cooling and Chas. P. Miller druggists.
Mrs. I. B. Hunt of Lime Ridge Wisconsin faced a fatal stomach trouble and yellow jaundice due to gall stones. After doctors failed to help she used Electric Bitters and fully recovered. The remedy treats stomach liver and kidney issues and is sold by Traill & Cooling and Chas. P. Miller for 60 cents with guarantee.
A miscellany notes men preferring half a loaf to steady work and a race won by a head often decided by legs. The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine launches a second West Africa malaria expedition. Queen Victoria ordered daily flower cuts sent to London hospitals during her absence.
Local items report Adolph Hilit visiting Miss Rabert in Elmhurst and other residents: Mr Carlton ill with fever in Willow and Washington Streets. Marco Williams returns from Aurora with a wife. Rev Father Campbell in improved health after Texas/Mexico trip. Mrs Hartley to London. O M Donaldson hosting his Vermont-born father at the general conference. A T Benson beautifies his North Central terrace with blooming plants. Royal Arcanum and Mozart Club notes, J S Mills returns from the Klondike with a hand injury. general chatter of community life.
The Oak Park column covers visitors from Hartford returning home, Lime With Club meeting at 200 South East Avenue with an illustrated lecture on colored photography by Mr Gerta, and the Home Missionary Society gathering at Lake Street with papers on emigrant missionary work. It also details Verona Pratt’s eleventh birthday party at South Elmwood, the Ladies' Aid Society electing new officers, Rubinstein club concerts at Chicago Auditorium and plans to repeat a May 8 performance, plus a list of unclaimed letters including numerous residents and visitors.
Mrs. C. Ella Taylor of 121 North Park Avenue stocks a full line of stylish hats. She sells at prices lower than downtown stores for the same materials, aiming to fit each customer’s needs with up-to-date goods.
Andrew Schmitz, brother of baker Frank Schmitz, will sail for Paris around May 30 to work in a large Paris bakery. Peter H Finnegan announces a new first class bicycle and repair shop at 5645 Lake Street inviting locals to bring bicycles for repairs and frame cutting. Post optician at 532 North Pine Avenue offers free eye tests and guaranteed glasses fitting from a Northern Illinois College of Ophthalmology graduate.
Miller’s Drug Store markets Choice candies, Tazell’s choice perfumes, Allegretti chocolates, and prescription filling. It advertises Choice perfumery in plain and fancy bottles, cigars including Key West and domestic, and regular meat products at popular prices. Charles P. Miller, druggist.
The fifty seventh annual meeting will be held May 21 to 24 at Second Congregational Church Oak Park with an opening reception for pastors and delegates on May 21. Tickets for non delegates and pastors are $1. Fisk Jubilee Singers will perform at the reception and meetings. A full three day program is planned for a large attendance. A sea weed paper that is transparent like glass is mentioned.
Mr Lewis Ensign attended a Beta Theta Pi gathering in Galesburg then returned to Beloit College via Oak Park for a day. The Ladies Aid Society of the Second Congregational church held an all day meeting with luncheon and a missionary program in the Sunday school room led by Mrs Eaton. A paper on Growth of Medical Missionary Work was presented by Mrs Morey, plus delegate reports and updates from Kobe College including Miss Searle and training school news.
At a May 12 meeting President Kistebroker confirmed appointments: Treasurer Fred Lange, Collector Frank Hartz, Attorney A. J. Redmond, Captain of police Wm. Muller, Jailer Theo Nehls, and patrolmen Wm. Kupp Chas. Jacobs Chas. Schaws Frank Zimmerman Gus Spies Gus Ehlert. The dancing school under Miss Pearl Waite continues. a Choral Union entertainment is planned. A girl injured near Hannah street breaks two arm bones. Dr Hemingway treats her. Otto Gorke and Lena Troost wed at St Luke's River Forest. They will live at Franklin and Elgin.
A fragment suggests that many family quarrels could be resolved if the woman held her piece and kept calm. The line reflects social advice on harmonious domestic relations.
River Forest column reports guests at local homes, a Missouri couple en route to Montana, street improvements on Lake and Thatcher Avenues, and Steven Lavengood buying Thatcher Block barber shop. Funeral for William C. Gillespie at Gale Avenue home notes his death from paralysis after a long illness. interment at Forest Home. St Luke’s Church mission services conclude with prayer, rites, and sermons on sanctification and perseverance.
A fine concert under the Young People's Society will be given at the First Presbyterian Church Friday evening May 25 by the JuAnita Glee Club of Chicago, assisted by Gertrude Henderson reader Fred H. Quuphant club swinger and Edw. T. Clissold.
At 40 North Fifty-second avenue the Sunday program includes a 10 45 a m anniversary sermon on the subject Review and Outlook by the pastor and an evening service at 7 30 p m with an address by W F McMillen All cordially invited by Henry M Lyman.
The Chicago Telephone company extends party line service to the area between 48th street and 52nd street including Austin and Oak Park, previously served only by straight line service.
The Chicago Times-Herald is praised for boldness honesty and intelligence in its reporting and columns. Readers say the paper meets people’s information needs and that its circulation is rising as both men and women express pride in having it in their homes.
Try Stanley's when in need of fine watch or clock repairing. We also sell jewelry much below Chicago prices for the same quality. Mrs L A R Stanley N Park Ave Austin.
The Nickel Plate Railroad offers three daily express trains between Chicago New York and Boston with twenty seven hour service between Chicago and New York. All meals on day trains from Chicago are in dining cars at popular prices. Information available from J Y Callahan General Agent 111 Adams Street Chicago.
Druggist A W Sawtelle of Hartford endorses Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. A female customer credits it with saving her life at the shore, and a man recovering from a severe cold reliefs after a dose. Sold by J P Garner Co Austin Geo Koch Co Moreland.
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