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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1895
Page
3
A narrator recounts a personal, long ago encounter with an intense romantic fixation by a woman of royal connections who left court life to live near the narrator in a quiet town. The speaker, a wife and mother, describes the emotional tension and secrecy surrounding their bond, framed as a haunting confession.
A narrator recounts a deep friendship with Miss L and her eventual illness. She predicts the bazaar outcome and dies on the narrator s birthday. Years later Miss L appears again in a midnight visitation, prompting the narrator to seek medical reassurance and defend the tale as true if needed.
The Layland Line steamer Victorian carried a vast eastbound load on its first voyage, including 155000 bushels of grain and 1800 tons of flour. Provisions, cotton, leather, beef, lumber, cattle and sheep filled the hold, with wide regional representation from Georgia to Canada, and notably large consignments from North Carolina and the northwest.
In the last two years the dominion debt has increased by the Ottawa administration by 11 318 432 dollars. The figure reflects a sustained expansion of public borrowing behind ongoing policy initiatives and fiscal measures.
In Calcutta three monkeys face indictment for burglary amid a citywide theft scare. Seven men sought a warrant for arrest of the animals, but the magistrate refused, noting monkeys are sacred to Hindus. He proposed a modified indictment for severe burglary instead.
An old aeronaut recalls a five mile ascent with a scientist and a dog. The dog jumped out at peak height and vanished from view as the balloon drifted. They landed within half a mile of the expected site after the wind shifted the course.
A New York drug store near the Produce Exchange ships out castor oil and old fashioned remedies to sailors. Captains keep detailed records of medicines given to crews, and castor oil remains the most popular remedy aboard ships. The druggist confirms sailors receive more castor oil than any other medicine, with salts and senna as common companions.
A historic tale recounts the En tillus monkey clan clashing with Hindoo villagers after an infant Hounaman misread the sun as an orange and seized control of the Son of Day’s chariot. Villagers offer grain yearly to appease the feud and protect ripening crops.
The origin of the polka is traced to Haniczka Selezka, a Bohemian girl from Costelec on the Elbe. In 1830 at a farmhouse she danced a solo polka to her own singing, leading to its spread as pulku then polku and finally polka. By 1839 it reached Vienna and Paris popularity.
Monogram china is popular on stylish dining tables with monograms placed on the rim. Finest pieces are fine white china with a narrow gold edge and a gold monogram along the rim.
A humorous dialogue features Mrs. Poppin asking about missing her husband who is away. Mrs. Golightly replies she is untroubled, having ample money and a breakfast trick that keeps him as a memory rather than a presence.
The narrator and a professor debate a vaporizing theory as they track a dog lost in flight. A brass collar fragment with faint initials confirms the dog was completely burned away rather than landing, leaving only vapor. The scientist, pursuing a famed theory, is sidelined by the aeronaut’s blunt assessment that the dog was pulverized.
A Washington Post anecdote recalls Mrs Somebody on Thirteen Street who bought a gate after her infant began walking and waited up late for her husband. When he arrived he asked why she did not simply lift the gate out, a line illustrating the man’s lack of concern.
In Barnstable, twin sisters Mehit able Smith and Deborah P Hall marked their 90th birthday last week. Born August 30, 1805 as Parker, they are long-time residents of the house once occupied by Governor Thomas Hinckley, Plymouth Colony governor in 1680. Both widows, they are noted for vigor of mind and body.
Shipping patrons recall early patent medicines as sailors reject sugar coated pills. The article notes that medicine was given to sailors hoping the harsh taste signaled effectiveness, a practice that fell out of favor as taste preferences shifted.
Prof Sayce asserts there was a Queen of Sheba and a region she came from and that her journey to Solomon was natural. The spade uncovered evidence contradicting prior disbelief, making an ancient crockery fragment more credible than multiple biblical statements.
A collection of humorous snippets from various papers and sources. Witty exchanges cover digs at manners, love and marriage, and light social observations. The pieces reflect era humor with remarks about wealth, propriety, bicycles, and domestic life.
A trip on the Norfolk Broads with Mrs Anna Bowman Dodd features a jolly boat ride to Horning Hall and a farmyard milk scene. The voyage reveals a chapel now used as a barn beside abbey ruins and a reflection on medieval feminine archetypes amid pastoral imagery.
An instructive account describes a South Africa model village owned by Searle and Sons temperance advocates. Set at hill foot beside a river the village hosts a feather factory a saddlery and a boot factory all staffed by abstainers. It has church school cricket team and brass band with no hotels saloons or policemen needed.
A mutual friend asks about reconciling Thompson and Johnson. The other friend sighs that they hate each other like two labor leaders, making any reconciliation seem utterly hopeless.
A humorous exchange contrasts European tipping with American practices. A traveling guest notes European tips equal one twentieth of the bill while in the United States a man freely gives a quarter as a tip, eliciting a guarded reply from a waiter.
The piece contrasts wealth and happiness with social status, quoting Truth about money and rank. It notes the 1895 California wine vintage totaling about 8,000,000 gallons of dry wines, three quarters of last season, with ample sweet wines and price increases anticipated.
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