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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1901
Page
6
Alma Maynard, confined by scarlet fever, awakens to a secret Decoration Day party planned by her school friends. Viva Leland guides Alma into a room filled with flowers and laughter as the guests celebrate with a supper and stories, hoping for a swift recovery.
A Dawsons family of six children prepares for Decoration Day with garlands and flowers. Grace and Nellie quarrel with the boys over twine, plotting a lunch basket escape as they head toward the woods for crafts and reverent duties.
Grace and Nellie rescue Nellie flowers after stealing lunch from boys, nearly fall into a creek, and learn a lesson in honesty and not spoiling others' fun. They return the lunch, vow to avoid mean acts, and share in camaraderie, ending the day happier and wiser.
The piece extols Oklahoma as a beautiful land and argues its rapid growth justifies statehood. It cites settlement after 1889, a 1900 census population of 398,245 plus 5027 Indians not taxed, rising land value near 100 million dollars, two years of major crops, bank deposits doubling, hundreds of churches and newspapers, and notes cotton and wheat prosperity highlighted by the Saturday Evening Post.
A fire at David Ralston's home near Wabash caused a loss of 2000 dollars with 800 dollars insured. The quote from Zimmerman notes scholars meeting the ignorant of their own ignorance.
A collection of aphorisms on poverty hunger honesty pride and human nature attributed to the Philadelphia Record. The quotes touch on charity manners self respect love hope and character with observations on behavior and loyalty.
A visiting lumberman suggests canned goods dealers explore selling dried red tree ants as a condiment in the Northwest. He notes ants are valued by laborers in Minnesota and Wisconsin, describing collection, scalding, drying, and a taste likened to fruit vinegar, comparing them to snails or shrimps.
A quirky Yale Record note humorously jars with proverbs about quiet giving and resilience. It highlights misfortune and double strikes, then quips that a person worthy of doing something is worth doing well.
Statistical tables by Professor Bunte of Karlsruhe show that gas consumption is much larger in the United States than in cities of comparable size in Germany.
A boy riding beside a fast Pennsylvania Railroad train spotted a hill landslide and waved his cap to warn the crew. The engineer braked hard and the locomotive barely avoided a wreck, saving many lives. The incident occurred near Tyrone, with high water along the tracks but no danger to the train at sixty miles per hour.
The Roman World lauds Miss Alice Appleton wife of George von L. Meyer as a poised, stylish ambassador from America in Rome. Descriptions praise her regal bearing, devotion as a mother, and the Appleton family estate life on Beacon Hill and Newport.
The article notes India's naturally high birth rates and large families but describes a shift toward slower population growth influenced by climate and social practices. It highlights tensions between traditional norms and demographic changes in the region.
The critique portrays Morocco as stagnant and impoverished under a sultan’s autocracy. It condemns the government and religion for suppressing progress, fields untended, and decay spreading from a failed social order. It laments Moorish decline since exile from Spain and calls for modernization or conquest by a civilized power.
The article reports last year’s territorial and state vote totals for several regions. Oklahoma 73,000. Arizona 16,000. New Mexico 30,000. Hawaii 9,500 totaling 127,500. Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada yield 36,000 combined. Nevada trails Arizona by 6,000. Wyoming trails New Mexico by 15,000. Six U S senators come from states, while four territories have none.
The chief constable notes Birmingham showed improvement last year with fewer indictable and non indictable convictions. Property theft totaled over 28 000 pounds with about 4 000 pounds recovered. Three thousand five hundred miscellaneous items, including an artificial eye and a 500 pound bank draft, were returned to owners.
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled that animals near crossings are entitled to whistle warnings. The decision, in Graybill v. Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, holds that trains must warn animals as well as humans, since animals can recognize approaching danger and act to avoid injury. The ruling strengthens animal protection and aligns with scientific views on animal perception.
The University of Wisconsin engineers plan an indirect lighting system in auditoriums and drawing rooms. Lamps will be concealed in opalescent globes with opaque reflectors directing light to a dead white ceiling, creating uniform illumination. The method is described as unique in America and expected to improve on current schemes.
London’s Strand is being modernized with demolition of adjoining shops and a Savoy Theatre area. An acre will become a hotel courtyard with a Strand opening and an underground box office accessed by elevators, due for completion in about two years per the Chicago Record-Herald.
Egge described as an unsatisfactory cushion material as shells are blown out and strung on wires with ribbons. Each egg is hand painted and mounted on a cushion, then hung on a chair back as aristocratic fashion dictates.
Raymond, grandson of a Civil War veteran, and his dog Rover prepare a simple Memorial Day tribute. Raymond threads a tattered flag to a new staff, dons a soldier cap, and stands with Company C as the band plays the Star Spangled Banner.
The cemetery at Sailsbury, North Carolina holds about 11,000 unidentified soldiers buried there. The site is maintained by the government in orderly condition.
Readers describe a social greeting as imperfect and awkward, noting a tense moment during a gathering. The remark highlights informal etiquette and varied reactions to the gesture among attendees.
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