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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1900
Page
5
Lexington Tenn editor W W Barry contracting piles during Mammoth Cave exploration finds Bucklen’s Arnica Salve a miraculous remedy. Claims cures piles, injuries, inflammations, and eruptions. Sold for 25 cents at Trail 2 Goelings and Chas P Miller’s drug store.
A one fare and a third round trip rate is authorized for destinations within 150 miles on the Nickel Plate Road. Tickets available at Chicago Passenger Station Van Buren and Pacific avenues Loop City Ticket Office 111 Adams Street No. 38.
The queen regent of Spain signs a decree to standardize time across railways mail telegraph telephone and steamship services the peninsula and Baleares from January 1 1901. Time will be counted from midnight to the next midnight using 1 to 24 and omitting tarde and noche. Midnight is designated 24 with intervals like 0 45 0 10.
The world relies on 1600 submarine telegraphs with an initial eight words per minute. The Atlantic cable now runs at fifty words per minute. Britain owns 135 cables, Norway 825, France 54, Denmark 78, Austria 41, Spain 15, British India 111, Japan 70, while the United States owns none. The total construction cost is about 250 million dollars.
The Thirty Club held an evening of varied entertainment at 105 South Central avenue with acts including ghetto orchestra sketches recitations songs and parodies. A reception honored Mr and Mrs George Dunlop with violin solos recitations and a silver tea service presented by friends at Dr George B Charles’s residence.
There is no headwear this season more stunning than ostrich feather trimmed hats. Our beaver hats of best quality feature velvet trimming and buckles. Miss Glavke styles hats in artists’ fashion and Mrs C Bella Taylor at 121 N Park Ave offers handsome pins and novelty ornaments at popular prices.
Congressman Lorimer was interrupted in his Harlem speech by John F. Barrett who offered to wager $500 he would be defeated. James L. Monaghom, the meeting chairman, accepted the wager, claiming ample funds to meet such propositions. Afterward a dance and supper were held at Gadden's Hall.
A. G. Bagley to handle election returns at his gentleman's furnishing store 115 N Park Ave Tuesday night. J A B McCann celebrate third anniversary sale with balloons for patrons November 1st to 10th. F A Hill Co arrange with Chicago Suburban Water Co for Austin bill collection to pay water and electric bills locally.
Oak Park Illinois October 27 1900 warning against burning weeds grass or leaves on the prairie under a five dollar fine. The order will be strictly enforced by the police as stated by John I Jones president of the town of Cicero.
The Nickel Plate Road offers round trip tickets within 150 miles for November 28 and 29 at a fare of one and a third the regular rate. Return by November 30. Daily through trains to Ft. Wayne Cleveland Erie Buffalo New York and Boston with vestibuled sleeping cars and dining service. Fares 85 cents to 1 dollar. Write John Y Callahan General Agent 111 Adams Street Chicago for sleeping car reservations. Chicago Terminal at Van Buren and Pacific and City Office 1 Adams Street No 89.
A partial page lists numerous individuals including Henry Bolee, Elizabeth Bower, Mrs. Bull, James D. Ferris, Cary, Gifth, C. P. Gilson, Thea Grafft, Cyril Graham, Hermond Haden, H. F. Hann, Jane Harris, Julia Johnson, Orville Brewer Pub Co, Olive Rasmussen, Mary Hogers, L. W. Samuel, M. Schulz, Raul Sefton, Mrs L W Smelser, Brie Somerset, H. W. Toeppe, Bert Winer, H. Wright, Mathias Forems.
Epworth League plans a Bible club and eight lecture series led by Dr. A W Patten of Northwestern University on Vital Themes Concerning the Bible. First talk Friday Nov 9, The Structure of the Bible. Chicago Northern District Poverts League to hold convention Nov 8 with Dr Charles Bayard Mitchell speaking on A Loyal Leaguer.
First Congregational Church Oak Park presents six Sunday evening sermons by Dr. William H. Barton starting Nov 4. The first sermon titled Original Sin weighs church creeds science heredity and human condition. Sullivan's oratorio She Prodigal will be performed during the series.
Music lovers urged to attend a Sunday night program at First Baptist Church Austin featuring Mrs Rose, Mr De Sale, and the Choral Union in An Evening in Heaven with solos duets and responsive choruses alongside Scripture readings. Pastor Clarence E Lapp introduces third series on Christ Within with theme A Ruling Purpose.
Services at First Presbyterian Church Austin will be held at 10:80 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. The morning sermon will reflect on last Sabbath's accident from text 34:19 and the evening sermon will discuss Geo W Leitch and his work.
Public worship at 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday school at noon and a Young People's meeting at 6:30 p.m. Morning sermon titled The Uncondemning Heart or the Sure Way to Confidence in God. Evening sermon The Relation of Salvation to the Present.
A home nursery advertises 300 elms 600 poplars ready for immediate fall planting plus abundant apple crab cherry and pear trees. Stock is fresh from the ground with shrubs and roses and landscape gardening services. Call or visit Fair Oaks Nursery at North Park Avenue Oak Park.
A Grahamaville, Sullivan Co., N Y blacksmith reports his five year old son suffered severe croup but Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy dissolved mucus and stopped the attack. The family used frequent doses and trusted the safe remedy, available from local stores J P Garner Austin Geo Koch Co Moreen.
The Beethoven Club in Austin held a reception and musicale at Congregational Church on October 25th. Club officers praised the promising new season with likely record membership and several artists joining. Miss Ida Belle Freeman outlined past work and plans, while Francesca Falk sang with Dr. Louis Falk and Arthur Granquist provided piano solos. attendees enjoyed light refreshments and social time.
Infant son of Herbert Starns aged seven months ten days died Saturday October 27 funeral services conducted by Rev Lyman and interment at Oak Ridge. The notice includes old home remedy guidance for corn treatment and promotes Chamberlain's Pain Balm sold by J P Garner Co in Austin and Geo Koch Co in Moreland.
The ad warns readers to choose fire insurance carefully and compare companies. It promotes R. Tuthill at 422 North Central Avenue as sole Austin agent for The Hartford and other reliable firms, urging prudence in selecting coverage for strong returns and protection.
Citizens report Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as highly effective for bloody flux and severe colic. Endorsed by E. H. Phipps of Poteau Arkansas with local merchants J P Garner Co Austin Geo Kach Co Moreland selling the product.
The Chicago News reports a surge of money in the Scotch Highlands as millionaire proprietors buy pleasure grounds and improve estates. They employ local labor, develop permanent industries, and invest in roads houses and trees while keeping tenants in their homes and boosting livelihoods.
The Duke of Abruzzi sledge party reached 86 degrees 33 minutes latitude about 239 statute miles from the North Pole. Capt Cagni's group advanced to within 21.85 miles of the pole. Nansen in 1895 surpassed Lockwood's 1882 record by 195.60 miles. The four top records are Lockwood 1882 456.50 miles Fram 1895 280.55 miles Nansen 1895 261 miles and Abruzzi 1900 239.15 miles.
In Cheboygan Michigan a woman who married at 12 and had a daughter by 13 says her daughter married young and bore a child at 16 making the grandmother a little over 29. The record raises questions about youth marriages and teen parenthood.
A humorous, misspelled stream of thought from Finnickey Finnukin in Pennsylvania Grit. It playfully muses on God, hope, fate, and life lessons, contrasting lofty ideals with everyday folly and the trouble of understanding human nature.
A reflective passage argues cleverness serves practical ends and that true value comes from honest effort. It extols loving reciprocity, the depth of relationships, and the virtue of aligning reason with divine will as guiding principles. It quotes George Eliot and Bishop Wilson to reinforce humane, hopeful ideals.
A saying argues that preserving family harmony is wiser than letting fashion trends damage the home. The remark contrasts domestic disruption with style influence, emphasizing home life over outward appearance.
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