04 Nov 1898
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1898
Page
1
A collage of items notes Austin Illinois and Chicago area life, railway mileage, European royalty, Manila shells for glass, temperance movements, and naval gunnery tests. It mentions Livingstone, Shirwa Nyassa exhibition, Paris gunnery, Spanish prisoners in Maine, Queen Marie of Hanover, and WCTU work with Miss Willard memorials.
The 1898 sardine season opens early June along the Atlantic coast and Puget Sound with heavy catches in Norway and Brittany. French fishers at Belle Isle and Palais Sauzon port areas ship 8,000 to 10,000 fish per boat, seven francs per thousand, and employ 300 women and 16 men awaiting cargoes. Sardines are salted cleaned dried in grills filled with oil and tomato sauce, then packed for export within ten hours of leaving water. Charms should avoid newly prepared sardines as they lack aroma and flavor.
An Austrian professor argues hygiene and the national bathtub explain England’s preeminence in world affairs. He asserts that Britain’s lead stems from water use and that to beat England one must excel in bathing and sanitation.
Germany contributes only 140000 marks annually to colonial schools while France and England spend millions, highlighting the disparity in imperial education funding.
The Nieuwe Republikein denounces Boer girls riding the bicycle as shameless and foolish, claiming the fair sex corrupts national character and shames mothers by riding the bisike to appear foppish.
The Louifsville Times reports a lively scene around Major Hobson and a St. Louis girl who asked for a kiss. Hobson recounts a dramatic rescue with a humorous twist, recalling a burning building and a bustle, ending with a kiss and a playful quip about the attempted kiss back.
The Rev Charles Kesterson of Hancock County Tennessee once terrorized the region as a feared gunman and moonshiner. Now a Baptist minister he preaches against crime, aids the needy, and farms between church duties. At seven feet eight inches tall and 309 pounds he recalls a violent past but speaks of change and mercy.
A San Francisco Argonaut piece argues that universal peace remains unattainable. It recalls centuries of wars from Britain against Russia to the United States against Spain, noting Albert’s peace ideal contrasted with a long record of conflict.
The dialogue frames a metaphorical conversation between two fish about a fisherman. The first asks how the other is faring, the second complains that the man at the end of the line is an idiot, and the bait remains untouched as they wait for more bait to be placed.
In Rochdale England the town with the most places of worship 145 houses of worship exist. Of these 50 belong to the Church of England and 95 to Nonconformists.
The battleships Kearsarge and Kentucky will be well furnished as orders for their outfitting have been issued at the Portsmouth navy yard. The cost is set to run close to $100,000 for the furniture and related fittings.
The report states over 50 000 French citizens belong to the Legion of Honor. About 32 000 are army members, while the remainder are civilians.
An English paper notes practical German experiments testing battlefield colors. Ten soldiers in light grey dark grey scarlet blue and green marched openly while observers tracked disappearance order. Rifle range tests found scarlet hardest to hit with three misses for every one in other colors.
A Washington Star quotation contrasts a junior partner’s critique with a crusty capitalist praising a man who extracts more interest from less capital, labeling him a positive usurer in a sharp exchange about work and achievement.
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