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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1898
Page
3
Shell caring for Henry Wilden's children amid a smallpox scare on the moor begins a tense confiding arc with Robert Champley. Shell’s bravery and humor win trust, while a fragile romance and family ties unfold through shared nursing and a plan for future happiness.
A Lincoln-era portrait of Verdi recounts a youth steeped in church music. As acolyte at Le Roncole he fumbled for water and toppled, later guiding his own organ improvisations into a calling as a musician rather than priest. The turning point came when Father Seletti praised his music and urged a musician's career.
The White Brow group hears Shell promise to live at Champley House. Bob calls her a brick and Robert Champley winks, then both share a hearty laugh as the scene ends.
The machete, produced in Blart ford Connecticut, is a multi-use blade common from laborers to hidalgos. Blades range 10 to 28 inches, with many forms and handles, used for sugar cane, firewood, farming, and travel across rough terrain in Spanish American regions.
The article traces how surnames arose through Norman and local adaptations around 1100. It notes Witz for son as Fitzherbert, O for grandson in Ireland, Mac in Scotland, Ap in Wales, and later gon additions, with common names like Johnson Wilson Dyson Nicholson adopted by others, and Memings naturalized under Henry VI in 1400.
A tour through theater life with Fanny Kemble at Lenox and May Irwin’s rapid third act rewrite. Reported travels include Jane Hading’s Belgian voyage, a Spanish stage marriage, John Hare’s Robertson revival plans, and Berton and Simon visiting the U.S. for the American premier of Zana.
A long discussed project at St Marys Falls, Mich plans an eighteen foot deep intake channel 400 feet wide and 2,000 feet long. The canal proper would be 200 feet wide and 22 feet deep, with rock and earth excavations, timber bulkheads, masonry walls, a giant pile dock, branch railway and extensive dredging.
Excerpts advertise excursions to the West and Southwest via Missouri Pacific Railway and Iron Mountain Route. Prospective Californians urged to await details on the Pacific Coast Limited a palatial Pullman vestibuled train. Through Pullman sleepers to California and Portland plus harvest excursions monthly. Address Bissell Wilson Chicago for maps and land books.
Attention is called to the excellent service of the North-Western Line to California and the favorable rates for single and round trip tickets this season. Best accommodations in first class or tourist sleeping cars operating daily. Personal conducted tourist car parties weekly to California and Oregon. Numerous route options without extra charge. Details available from Chicago & North-Western Bay agents or connecting lines.
A debate on a young man’s bashfulness toward women highlights an instinctive respect as if they were from a higher sphere. The granddaughter, eighteen, confirms his extreme delicacy and hesitation in approaching.
Baltimore and Ohio receivers plan to let a contract for a new inbound freight station in Baltimore costing about $100,000. The six story building, 600 feet long and 42 feet wide, will replace the present station on Entow street between Camden and Barre. It will house a cold storage basement and upper storage floors with wagon unloading under cover. Tracks will handle seventy five cars at once.
It has been calculated that the logs from illness averages 20,000,000 weeks of work in the year, or 214 per cent of the work done by the whole population between 15 and 65 years of age.
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