Oak Park Vindicator Advertising Rates Notice
Published weekly at 207 West Madison Street Chicago. Rates of advertising on application. Drug stores listed include Orrtors O P Miller at Lake Street and John D Suydam on Avenue Oak Park. Wrulliam Hauer editor and proprietor.
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Oak Park
Madison
West Madison Street
Chicago
Logan Orrtors
O. P. Miller
Lake Street
John D. Suydam
Avenue
Wrulliam Hauer
Public School Reform Mocked in Buffalo and Cincinnati
A Forum critique contrasts Buffalo and Cincinnati schools condemning corporal punishment and politics. It cites chaotic spelling lessons, uncorrected student errors, and a teacher's lax response as examples of systemic failings, suggesting the mechanical method dominates in Buffalo and poor recitation in Cincinnati.
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Buffalo
Cincinnati
M. Rice
Cincineati
Mechanical Order of Schools
Tasmond
Tee
Onder
Outr
Rice
Mmn Lahanage
Tescher
Columbian procession spark patriotic school parade memory
In Cincinnati a Columbian procession moved spectators as 20 000 schoolboys carried American flags through city streets. An Indiana teacher once promoted flag flying over schools and defended it with a toy gun. An old soldier urges annual stars and stripes celebrations with music flags and tableaux to kindle national spirit.
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Grand Army of the Republic
Cincinna
Indiana
Norse Discovery Claim Spurs Questioned Timelines
The article weighs Norwegian priority in discovering America, noting Leif Ericson voyage legends and debate on when Norse touched Massachusetts shores. It riffs on 1066 and hypothetical years, then shifts to census data showing US textile output rising 33.51 percent from 1880 to 1990 and asks why clothing wear patterns changed.
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America
Leif Ericson
Iceland
Greenland
Labradorus
Massachusetts
William the Conqueror
United States
Uniform voting rules for government clerks debated
Government clerks traveling from Washington to vote face varied state laws. Some states allow them to keep citizenship, others lack such laws, leading to frequent ballots being challenged by the opposition. The piece calls for uniform practice and labels 1892 as a rotten egg presidential campaign year.
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Washington
Does It Spoil the Child A Globe symposium on corporal punishment
The Boston Globe assembles views from school board members and educators on whipping as a punishment. Edwin Seaver and Metcalf discuss historical limits, kindergarten methods, and reform ideas while criticizing harsh discipline and praising engaging instruction.
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Boston Sunday Globe
John Kneeland
Boston School Board
Edwin P Seaver
Seaver
Metcalf
Louisa P. Hopkins
Marual
Return of the Jews to Palestine Sparking Growth
A quiet decade long movement returns Jews to Palestine now totaling over 100000. The Jerusalem real estate market rises as irrigation waterworks and electric street lighting expand. Rival railways will connect the region, and agricultural methods introduced by immigrants promise broader business and civilization progress.
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Palestine
Jerusalem
Holy City
Electric railway vision between Chicago and St Louis
The proposal describes a fast electric line with large driving wheels carrying high class freight and passengers at 100 miles per hour. The route would be divided into 10 mile sections with power interrupted in alternate segments to prevent collisions. Power houses would be located at coal mine mouths owned by the company, with mining conducted by electricity.
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Chicago
St. Louis
Eclipse Belief Sparks Mass Bath in Ganges
The article notes Indian natives view solar eclipses as sacred and travel by the thousands to bathe in the Ganges. It contrasts this with a humorous suggestion that Americans might similarly seek a bath during an eclipse, implying the superstition is unlikely here.
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India
Ganges
United States
Locking in Your Plans Becomes Your Hidden Strength
Sharing ambitions publicly diminishes potential. Keeping plans private protects strategy, focus, and momentum, enabling decisive action and sustained progress without external interference or distractions.
Vast Spanish Grandee Estate Sold in Mexico for Taxes
Rumor says the Cedros hacienda in Zacetecas, Mexico, once belonging to an old Spanish grandee, totaling 1,200,000 acres, has been sold to a syndicate for about 5 million dollars. The buyers plan to explore and develop mineral mines on the property.
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Zacatecas
Mexico
Cedros Hucienda
Electricity the magician of future industry
The passage extols electricity as the solution to material hardship, foretelling cheaper production of chlorine and caustic soda from seawater and brine. It envisions electricity revealing the crew that will free mankind from labor, initiating a revolution in mechanical science and unseen advances.
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England
Edison
Storage battery street car proves viable in Milford run
It has been proved by actual trial that a storage battery street car carrying seventy passengers can travel thirty miles at six miles an hour with stoppages, rounding curves and climbing hills without recharging. The Milford class demonstrates the car costs no more than a horse car and offers benefits where trolley wires are objectionable.
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Milford
Poets Laureate of Britain Through the Ages
The piece lists seventeen British poets laureate from Chaucer to Tennyson. It notes famous names Spenser Jonson Den_ Colley Cibber Southey and Wordsworth, mentions Gray declining the post, and records Nahum Tate as the sole Irish appointee during Queen Anne’s reign.
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Great Britain
Chaucer
Tennyson
Spenser
Ben Jonson
Dryden
Colley Cibber
Southey
Wordsworth
Gray
Irishadnan
Nahum Tate
Hymn Water
Queen Anne
Cats as Rabbits Killers and Campaign Props Across Hemispheres
The passage notes a newspaper quote about a curious Australian ad seeking 1 000 cats to kill rabbits at Wirrilla station for 60 cents each. It contrasts Australian farming needs with American politics, questioning how to dispose of cats after the rabbits are gone and suggesting American misuse of dead cats as campaign documents.
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Wirrialpa
United States
Australia
America
Deep Breathing Promise Cures Consumption Says Reader
The piece urges deep nasal breathing to supply the lungs with air, claiming rapid health gains for consumption fears. It argues oxygen enriches blood, restores color, and improves vitality, urging consistent practice despite initial effort.
St Louis Grows Into Major River City
Harper's Magazine notes St Louis rises to fifth largest city in the nation with 470000 to 500000 residents and a plan driven boom by merchants exchanges autumnal festivities and a push to deepen the Mississippi River channel to ten feet. The city showcases 214 miles of electric streetcar lines and leading breweries and tobacco trades while attracting southwest migration and forecasting a population near a million.
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St. Louis
Brooklyn
New York
Julian Ralph
Harper's Magazine
Old City
Ralph
Merchants’ Exchange
Mississippi
United States
St. Anthony's Falls
Gulf
Open land for settlement in Indian Territory after treaty
About 3,000,000 acres in the southwestern Indian Territory are to be opened for settlement after the Comanche Kiowa and Apache tribes select lands in severalty. The government paid $2,000,000 for the land. Once the tribes finish, the area will be opened, likely triggering another boomer rush as the territory is carved and parceled.
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Indian ‘Territory
Indian Territory
America Needs More Than Grand Displays At Columbus Fest
The piece contrasts American exuberance with European artistry, arguing large red white and blue adornments are patriotic but not decorative. It condemns kaleidoscopic color over thoughtful design, praising in-store window displays as the era’s most artistic public effort.
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Columbus
America
Das
Two Presidents Wives and the Harrison Tragedy
A historical column contrasts Mrs Caroline Scott Harrison and Rachel Jackson, noting death from heart trouble linked to the burden of presidential life. It recounts Harrison's unwavering public role, Jackson’s despair, and asks whether modern politics has softened brutality while honoring enduring devotion to family and duty.
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Harrison
Washington
Caroline Scott Harrison
Fife
Andrew Jackson
Parton
A Mathematical Wonder Inaudi the Italian Arithmetic Prodigy
Jacques Inaudi at twenty five astonishes by rapid mental calcu lations learned without reading or writing until age thirteen. He could multiply eight to ten digit numbers in seconds and even twenty six digit numbers read aloud are echoed back exactly. He claims he hears the figures rather than visualizing them. How does he do it?
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Jacques Inaudi
Waste products turned to use in industry and beauty
The North American Review essay by Lord Lyon Playfair argues dirt is useful when placed properly. It describes how waste becomes value: skeletons yield phosphorus for matches, Paris uses rat corpses for bones, fur, and gloves, bones for toothpicks, gelatin wrappers from tendons, and sewage pressed into ammonia and salts. Coal tar yields dyes and fragrances, discarded rags make paper, old iron becomes ink marks, and wine dregs create Seidlitz powders.
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Lord Lyon Playfair
North American Review
Paris
Playfair
Rivera
Sea
Victor Hugo
Seidlitz
Editors of Magazines Portray Chase for Popular Sensations
Special correspondents profile George William Curtis and four leading editors Alden Gilder Burlingame and Walker. It outlines editors roles at Harper's Century Scribner's and Cosmopolitan, noting Alden's Metuchen routine and Gilder's war series and Lincoln serial idea. Walker's wealth, energy, and Cosmopolitan ambitions are highlighted, with Burlingame praised for reviving Scribner's and the gatekeeping of manuscript reading.
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Mr. Alden
Tarper's
Gilder
The
Century
Burlingame
Scribner's
Walker
Cosmopolitan
New York
George William Curtis
Curtis
Harper's Monthly
Harper's
Alden
Howells
Atlantic Monthly
Metuchen
N. J
Harper’s
Mr. Gilder
Century Magazine
Buzzard’s Bay
Cleveland
Massachusetts
Richard Watson Gilder
Giller
Fellowcraft Club
Authors
John Hay
Life of Lincoln
Lincoln
Mr. Burlingame
Anson Burlingame
China
John Brisben Walker
Denver
Costaa Fortune
RE. J. Epwarpa
Money Spent Freely by Eastside Hebrews Cites Sickness
A New York Times passage notes Eastside Hebrew families part with money under two conditions sickness or death. It tells of a flat on East Broadway where a child was badly scalded, a nurse has cared for the family, doctors visited multiple times daily, and the family plans to work harder to cover costs. The quote includes Thoreau on wealth’s limits.
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Eastside
East Broadway
New York Times
Walter Hanssen the grandnephew of Senator Stanford
Special Correspondence Albany Ott one of the prettiest babies you could find in a year’s journey Walter Hanssen the pet grandnephew of Senator Leland Stanford heir to a fortune of millions. Though under three years old he has traveled across the continent and knows many large cities.
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Leland Stanford
Albany
Ott
LELAND STANFORD S PET Walter Hanssen and the Stanford fortune
Walter Hanssen, son of the Stanford family, summers at Saratoga and winters in Albany or New York while his father pursues business and travels. Senator Stanford has no surviving children, but funds a college in memory of his late son and endows Walter with real estate and diamonds. Walter is often seen with Kuma the Japanese poodle as he grows heir to a vast fortune and Stanford holdings.
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Walter
Saratoga
Albany
Gilsey
New York
Senator Stanford
Walter Hanssen
Waker
Kuma
Japan
Cc. F. Coparsr
A Popular Congressman's Wife in Cleveland
A Cleveland society note describes Mrs. Tom L. Johnson as tall and fair, citing her social success in Washington and Louisville, her father Colonel R. A. Johnson, and her unchanged name after marrying her fourth cousin. The couple has two children, a twelve year old son and a nine year old daughter.
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Cleveland
Tom [. Johnson
Washington
Louisville
Tom L. Johnson
Johnson
Johnsons
Decline of the Whale Fisheries Across Nations
The article notes a sharp drop in global whale fishing since 1840, detailing the U S once had 602 ships and 208,399 tons while now the fleet is tiny. England has fallen to three ships, Holland once had 200 large vessels and 14,000 sailors but now has none in the trade.
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United States
England
Holland
Mohave customs and Columbus celebrations noted
The Mohave Indians hold beliefs about death and spirits, avoid salt and washing for four days after a death, and once burned property for departed friends. Pittsburg boasted a notable Columbus grove, while New York faced bed shortages for visitors and Chicago ran short on pie as the celebration began.
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Heaven
White Mountain
New York
Chicago
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Derby
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Henry D. Thoreau
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