18 Nov 1898
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1898
Page
1
A collection of aphorisms and brief notices touches on life, ambition, and culture including Rockefeller funding for Alta House in Cleveland's Italian district and a London evening schools program. The piece notes empire politics in China, the empress dowager, and the new free evening schools with wide educational aims for workers and tradespeople.
A Chicago girl recalls a summer trip with her father to Denver where she sold a device for holding belt and shirt waist bands. She describes the sales venture at grand houses, earning about eight dollars for thirty five sets, and quips on fear of making change and the social whirl of the trip.
A $10,000,000 cash purchase of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad by a syndicate including Philip D. Armour Marshall Field and Norman B. Ream creates sensational speculation of a new transcontinental system with the Great Northern as its Pacific wing. The claim ties James J. Hill to the plan, though he denies it. Baltimore and Johns Hopkins University hold major financial interests in the line and fear losses if the deal falters.
A brief Chicago Record item notes a staged exchange with dialogue about prayers between a father and son, framed as a domestic scene without incident or crime confirmed. The snippet highlights a parental instruction moment rather than any criminal action.
A brief Indiana newspaper note from the Indianapolis Journal contemplates seasonal color change as leaves redden before descent.
A long-remembered gang led by George Wilbur Dan Elkins and Bill Howard roamed Arizona during the Tombstone mining era. After a decade of bold stage robberies the pair were tracked by detectives aided by Apache trailers and killed from ambush in a desert stand. Ezra A. Davidson’s memory stirs the tale of the 1878 79 era and the downfall of two frontiersmen.
The California poet Joaquin Miller will lie in a tomb he designed and supervised, atop a hill behind his Oakland home. A large rock bears the inscription To the Un known, signaling the future his sight cannot pierce. The tomb is a square, solid structure framed by the surrounding trees and boulders.
In 1879 highway robberies along Tombstone to Yuma and El Paso routes were carried out by two men in white masks. Dan Elkins and George Wilbur robbed stages, killed drivers, and robbed miners, earning rewards of eight thousand dollars. They boasted they evaded sheriffs across Arizona.
A fragment from a San Francisco Chronicle revised page presents a brief exchange with Tommy Crowther and Watts and Yabsley quotable as a humorous domestic vignette. The dialogue centers on parenting, Sunday routines, and thrift jokes amid a reforming tone.
The article examines the tradeoff between rigidity and light weight in bicycle frames. It notes that heavier frames reduce manufacturing costs but may deter buyers seeking lighter, safer, easier riding machines. Since 1895 weights rose to 28–30 pounds, yet public opinion favors 24 pounds or less, risking sales if weights continue to rise.
The A R C U abandons a championship table and adopts a four two and one points system based on public opinion for future seasons. Gardiner of Chicago is viewed as the season’s real all around champion by riders and fans, while Kimble would top the table under the old format. The riders union proposes a fifteen week circuit with points counted for open races, to decide the championship during the season rather than a long span. The article also describes technical details of bicycle frame construction and fittings for later brazing and assembly.
A Good Roads and Highway Improvement convention will meet in St. Louis from November 22 to 24. Twenty four western states are invited to send delegates for a display of vehicles road graders rollers paving materials and other highway improvements Lieut Gov A H Bolte of Missouri plans bills to improve roads to be presented to western state legislatures through the delegates.
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