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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1900
Page
4
Census returns show many children under ten listed as farm laborers and employed eight months a year while attending school only two months. Southern housewives are recorded as does housework or minds baby, indicating misreported occupations.
Frank Williams left nearly 300000 dollars to Lehigh University in his will. The fund will be named for him and its income loaned to poor and deserving students who sign individual notes. Notes may not exceed ten years and upon repayment the money returns to the fund to grow.
Official statistics show wolves in France steadily decreasing. In 1899 207 were killed with 107 destroyed in the Gdr onde department. Earlier, 1883 saw 1,316 wolves killed.
Miss Lizzie Bippue visits Glen Ellyn. Mrs. Babst dies at 74 at 801 North Fifty third. A concert memory and school prize news. J G Helleman on crutches after Northwestern injury. Rosy Gurney dies. funeral at Forest Home. Laura Kingeller wins $5 for fire description. Riceberg and Catlin Academy host first masquerade Nov 26. Orion Ladies Quartet to perform Dec 6 at First M E Church. Corbit ill after ingesting insect powder. grandmother blamed. John Burton dies of pneumonia in Lewiston Mont after three days illness. mother receives sympathy.
The Moreland Male Chorus meets every Monday at Redburg's Hall corner North Forty-eighth avenue and Indiana street at p.m. Joseph Dunkerley directing. Gentlemen may join as active or associate members. David Whitclaw secretary 1808 West Ohio Street Chicago.
Thomas Hartigan and Susan Thompson, who vowed fifty years ago to marry only if he wore a coat, finally wed last week in Cascade valley near Renya Pennsylvania. Hartigan wore a shirt waist borrowed from a Philadelphia store, proving the vow could be fulfilled with fashion.
A historical description explains oil refining in a tank with a slow fire beneath. Vapors condense into liquid as they rise through a cooling pipe, producing gas for fuel then varied naphtha and gasoline grades, kerosenes, lubricants, and dense asphalt. From these by products, over 150 substances such as dyes, soap, vaseline, ointment, and chewing gum are derived.
The passage recalls Lord Russell presiding at a dinner for Sir Henry Irving on his return from America. He urges Comyns Carr to propose Irving’s health. Irving declines to speak, recalling Russell’s Parnell commission speech, to which Russell quips about having something to talk about.
An expansive, alphabetized directory style listing shows Chicago telephone references in Austin, with numerous individuals and companies named in a long catalog. Names include Atwater, Austin Fire Department, Austin Floral Co, Austin State Bank, and many other local businesses and residents.
A catalog of names with associated page numbers including Terrill Thorndyke Thurber Todd Traill and Cooling Traill H. Turner Twohey Wagner Walser Ward Watts Wallen Wayt Wayt Amerson West Welsh White Rev White Whitcomb Whitlock Whitmarsh Willis Williams Miss Williams Witling Wood sa veces Woodcock Wyllis Young.
Former New York Senator Warner Miller wins a permit to build a railroad across the Colville Indian reservation. The Republic and Kettle River railroad is promoted by Miller as chief advocate. Alvaro Calderon, Peru’s new minister to Washington, sends two sons and two nephews to Maryland Agricultural College at Hyattsville for studies in agriculture and mechanics.
A sea cucumber, one of the ocean's curious jelly like bodies, can evade danger by squeezing water from its body and forcing itself into narrow marrow cracks. This remarkable defense helps it disappear from predators.
Bishop Potter of New York is described as not a college graduate though highly learned. His grandfather served as a president and his father and brother held vice presidencies at Union College.
The article extols Canada’s mineral resources forests waterways and wheat lands in Manitoba and the west as the best anywhere. It notes Minnesota’s symbolical statues for the new state capitol at St Paul by Daniel Chester French.
A testimonial from W. A. Null of Webb Illinois claims Electric Bitters cured his children after a year of chills and fever. The ad promotes a 50 cent bottle price and guarantees the remedy, sold by Tralll 6 Choling and Chas. P. Miller druggists.
A new material called molten wood is described by Mr. de Gall inspector of forests at Lemur France. Through dry distillation and high pressure gases are prevented allowing wood to melt into a coal like mass that loses organic structure yet remains hard and shapeable. It polishes and resists water and acids and is an electrical non conductor. Great results are expected from the invention.
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