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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1901
Page
2
The poem recalls fond memories of childhood in a village and old tunes like Ben Holt. It paints vivid scenes of summer breezes, fragrant flowers, and blooming roses, contrasting with present tastes for the past. The narrator cherishes the music that marked life as a primrose spring.
Miss Anna Gilbert of Madisonville, known as Saint Anna, helps Antonio Pansado, a gifted but poor Italian violinist, gain a class at the Girls College. He woos her with music and gratitude, while she contemplates love and family dreams, including bringing his aging parents. Her younger sister Saldie arrives, dazzling the pair and deepening their ties as Antonio visits more often.
A survey notes fifty-nine percent of notable individuals with known education are college graduates and seventy percent attended college. The Paris burglary on Rue Quincompoix saw a fifth floor apartment rented for 56, burglars drilling through a door, looting and escaping with about 50000 dollars in valuables.
The veteran academician Sidney Cooper enters his ninety ninth year and continues painting a few hours daily with works exhibited in London. French writer Judes Verne nears his ninety ninth book, seeing many adventurous tales become possible. A Chicago woman age ninety two apologized to Miss Jane Addams for not being neighborly, delaying neighborly acts until after the heat subsides.
Andrew Carnegie channels nearly a million dollars to church organs in Scotland, following hints from Moody and Sankey feats. Moody and Sankey popularized a touring American organ in Scotland, drawing comment as they rented organs coast to coast. Americans refused royalties on Moody and Sankey hymns, leading to funds diverted to Moody Church in Chicago, while Scots gain and others question generosity. In Patagonia, West Colony flood disaster repeats two years later with Gunny Tas. River overflow floods vast lands, crops ruined, embankment breaches, three houses collapse, colonists appeal for land, relief, and protection measures amid possible emigration.
A narrator reflects on aging, love, and duty as a woman watches two young lovers near, while contemplating her own faded youth. She admires Saidie’s happiness, recognizes the natural pull of affection, and sighs at the need for a new drawing teacher at Wellesley next year.
Italian ruler and consort tour Racconigi a tale emerges of hospitality and misread status. A thirsty queen and a watering request lead to a test of trust as an elderly woman lends her cow for water and is duped into guarding a royal animal. The moment reveals fear and mercy as the queen calms the frightened peasant who fears losing her livelihood.
A London cabby recalls two distinguished passengers at Westminster who urged a speedy ride to Marlborough House. The Prince of Wales and the King of Belgium alighted and debated payment. The prince joked about owing the driver and tipped with a sovereign for the king.
A compact critique notes London losing port status as Grimsby Hull Liverpool and Southampton seize trade. Rotterdam Haydeaux Bremen Hamburg emerge as new hubs while London ceases to be the world’s warehouse in a sweeping regional shift.
A discussion on iron and steel contrasts their properties and uses. It explains that while structural steel resembles iron superficially, steel's superior fatigue resistance and tenacity enable it to endure daily high-stress work in engines and machinery, unlike iron.
Walter W Mayne opens a new Oak Park store at 109 Marion Street offering wall paper, paint and related supplies. Millers advertises fresh candy, while Hawks Nursery Company Milwaukee seeks salesmen for nursery stock with steady work and extra incentives for fall and winter positions. Sep M 4
Local shop listings include The Pantorium offering suit and pants cleaning and pressing at low prices. Also Edith H Loucks offering china painting instruction. Oak Park vendors advertise chocolates taffy and new Pan American squares with coconut and lemon chocolate at five cents each.
Geo A Philbrick treasurer offers money to loan on real estate without commission by the Cicero school trustees. Located in room 916 Stock Exchange building 108 Lasalle street Chicago.
Instruction page listing I Newell at 625 Find Arts Building or 311 North Central Avenue offers mandolin guitar and banjo lessons. Includes mailing address P O Box 266 Austin Station. Miller's fragrant cream for chapped hands and face priced at 25 cents.
A Sheffield Protestant clergyman who has just died left 97500 dollars to the Religious Tract Society to be used in circulating anti Roman and anti ritualist literature within ten years, with every penny given away and nothing sold. He also left another 97500 dollars to the British and Foreign Bible Society to fund printing a Bible edition never before printed.
A set of rental notices across Austin and Oak Park detailing furnished and unfurnished rooms, flats and houses for rent. Entries mention steam heat electric light private family or offices, various addresses like 5602 South Boulevard 422 North Central Avenue Cody Block Central and South Boulevards, and amenities including telephones hot water and board options. Prices range from five dollars per week to twenty dollars for a ten room house with convenient locations and connecting rooms.
For sale a good violin with bow, case, instrument, book all priced at 25 dollars. Another for sale a square piano in excellent condition very cheap if taken at once. Two thoroughbred white silk poodles two months old priced at five dollars each. Locations include 111 S Oak Park Ave 232 North Lombard Ave Oak Park and 6939 Austin St corner of Austin Ave Austin.
A science note says experts simulated asphalt by distilling red herrings and pine oil to produce artificial asphalt. The experiment, using a Liebig condenser, supports a theory that asphalt forms from natural distillation of ancient matter beneath the earth.
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