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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1897
Page
2
A principle holds that regular delivery of a newspaper at a house creates an obligation to pay if no order to stop was given. In Cicero, a resident refused bills for ten years of Staats Zeitung, but publisher Hessing sued and won $80 for the decade.
The piece voices editorials on President Trail and reform figures, worries over water and electric franchises, and hints at local politics including Cicero Water Company, Suburban Electric Railway, and town officials. It notes military and naval rumors, legislative moves, and proposed infrastructure like the Lake Street elevated extension to Austin Avenue with concerns about Oak Park safety and surface transport.
Town highway commissioners grant Cicero and Proviso Street railroad Co. right of way on Desplaines avenue extending rail to connect with La Grange and Riverside lines. Project shortens travel seven miles to Harlem Oak Park Maywood and Melrose Park, easing transfers and saving nearly an hour for riders.
The large private greenhouses of N M Freer on Superior street and Linden avenue Oak Park hosted a Saturday evening event for about seventy five male horticulturists and landscape gardeners from Chicago. Guests toured the plant houses, enjoyed an informal banquet and mandolin music, and heard speeches from Edgar Sanders John Thorpe and Rev R M Johannet. The gathering showcased chrysanthemums in bloom and new varieties. Freer announces weekly public open houses each Saturday afternoon from to 6 with Georgie Baldwin showing visitors the plants.
Harlem Turnverein wraps up its bowling and shooting tournament with a combined musical and athletic show at Gaden's Hall. Despite threatening weather, the event drew strong crowd支持 and featured women's bowling results led by Mrs. William AL Beeker with 46 and shooting top score by Mrs. John Gacen with 26.
William Walley recalls Henry George, praising his unselfishness and intellect. He traces George from San Francisco in 1871 to The Evening Post, wealth of allies like McClatchy and Carr, and the spread of the common ownership doctrine. Walley notes land titles abuses, Mussel Slough, and George’s shift to a national book after New York publication.
At the Newman Circle meeting held at Mrs. Frank Smiths home officers were elected for the coming year. Honorary members Miss Caroline Schaaf and Miss Hien Fitzgerald were added. President is Mrs. Carter of Oak Park. First vice president Mrs. J. E. Thorndyke of Austin. Second vice president Mrs. William Templeton of Oak Park. Secretary Mrs. T. J. Sullivan of Austin. Treasurer Mrs. William Thompson of Oak Park.
Eight day home camp meeting in Austin led by Evangelist D. W. Potter of Chicago. Crowded services despite rain threats with love feast and morning and evening sermons. Potter preached on Hebrews twelve focusing on Jesus as author and finisher of faith and the joy of rescue. Rev. Holt and other Methodist pastors led afternoon Ipworth league and evening gatherings. Season ends with all day meetings Sunday.
Miss Cora Fidelia Crounse daughter of Mr and Mrs Crounse of Oak Park wed Greenleaf Whittier Gale of Pasadena California in a quiet home ceremony at 249 Home Avenue Rev Charles S Hoyt and Rev R F Johonnet officiated The bridal party included Miss Alice Crounse and Oliver Gale Best man After a bridal tour the couple will reside in Pasadena at home to friends after June 1.
Stuart Robson returns to McVicker's Theater with The Henrietta on Sunday night November 7. The comedy features Mrs Robson as Widow Opdyke and includes a strong company with Cloud and Kershaw, Lundgrens, Bud Snyder, the Wilson family and Ben Gomes.
The Great Northern theater opens Monday November 1 with the Boston Lyric Stock Company. The group, boasting Castle Square Opera principals and stars like J. K. Murray and Lillian Russell associates, closes a sixteen week Cincinnati run and previews Faust for next week.
Hopkins theater opens next week with Lizzie Evans and Harry Mills in A Strange Catastrophe a one act comedy. The Piechani sisters perform acrobatics from Circus Salamonky Moscow Russia. Revival of Mixed Pickles heads dramatic offerings with Van Auken McPhee Hill triple bars Fanson Courtney Fanson Carre family ladder act Mile Turnout trapeze Satsuma oriental juggler Lou Wells and Hopkins ladies orchestra also featured.
Charles T Ellis and Miss Clara Moore head a starry lineup with The Alsatian revue echoing eastern and western circuits. Mary Norman returns with new characterizations while Elvira Frencelli Tom Lewis offer operatic selections. Zebedie and Pitrot join a strong cast of acts, with Busco Roberts Alburtus Bartram Adrienne Ancion Lorraine Howell Swain Downer Alfred Holt Lizzie McKeever and Sexton Stewart adding specialties and novelties for a lively program.
Patrice, drawing crowds at the Olympic all week, moves to the Haymarket Monday afternoon as the star of a long vaudeville program. Alf Hampton presents A New Year's Dream, Harry Stanley and Adele Jackson perform Before the Ball, with Johnny Carroll, Sam and Kittle Morton, the California trio, Mary Lane, Aleka, Mons Mathieu, and the Rexford brothers also in the lineup. European acrobats round out the show.
The Rentz-Santley Burlesque and Vaudeville Company starts a week at the Clifford Savoy Theatre with two burlesque shows A World of Pleasure and A Praise in Hades. A Warville bill with 30 performers accompanies the program. The company claims to be the oldest in the country, promising quality entertainment.
The Sidewalks of York opens a week at the Chambra Theatre with a matinee on Sunday. The popular play offers life by day and the streets of New York, featuring stirring incidents. Paul J Tin, a champion high diver, will dive fifty feet into a shallow tank as a spectacle. The scenery costumes and mechanical effects are praised and the company is described as capable.
The Bon Ton Widows burlesque company announces a fifty‑artist ensemble of Eu and American performers coming to Chicago. Promises extravagant costumes and a sensational vaudeville program to entertain theater patrons with a lavish carnival of novelty acts.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference Leonidas Winter and a corner at Wabash Avenues with unclear context. No clear events, dates, or affiliations are readable to establish a full news item.
A forthcoming weekly program features Leonidas with trained cats and dogs, Miss Mary Arniotis champion strongwoman from Paris, Wertz and Adair acrobats, Mme. Ellen Vetter the globe act, M Langslaw on the high wire, and Nicholas G. Props the Grecian Hero with other acts. Admission priced at 10 20 and 30 rents.
Tattersall's launches a winter cycle skating academy managed by the Olympian club. New patent ball bearing skates with rubber tires and two wheels debut in Chicago. A 290 by 130 foot maple floor, electric planing, and attractions include William Paul with flying machine demonstrations. Frank Hall to manage and promise novelties.
Alice Hatbrook joins vaudeville while Rudyard Kipling pens East Indian life drama. Ada Behan to play Portia in Daly's Merchant of Venice. Keene debuts An American Emperor with Burr at center. Dublin theater to gain a twenty five year patent. Joaquin Miller to join The Heart of the Klondike. The Strand Theatre plans third ticket free with two bought. A Sixth Avenue dog restaurant serves 100 daily. Drury Lane refunds after a curtain mishap. One Round of Pleasure staged scene praised. heralded as grand artistic and financial extravaganza.
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