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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1896
Page
5
A sea captain’s parable about saving wisdom and funds guides a young man to pace expenses and preserve reserves. Jason Miller, missing from Wilkes-Barre a year, reappeared claiming memory loss after being sandbagged, and his family welcomed him back without suspicion.
A collage of brief jokes and quips from various papers including Life, Philadelphia North American, Harper's Bazaar, Chicago Record, Puck, Chicago Record, Truth, Atlanta Constitution, Washington Star, Yonkers Statesman, and Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. Notable exchanges cover humor about heat, sleep, money, hypnotherapy, marriage, vacation benefits, and social foibles.
A survey of patent office reports shows Butter-making leads with 4,435 patents followed by Wood-working tools at 4,255. Other notable totals include 5,833 for printing devices and 7,400 patents in Harness-making, with 1,382 patent medicines listed.
A collection of pithy maxims on virtue, effort, and divine guidance. It urges doing one’s best, living rightly, and trusting God in daily challenges. Key figures and themes include Daniels Josephs Elijahs and responsibility in preaching and action.
The Paris St Peters burg and Antwerp plan large ozonation plants to sterilize drinking water. M Repin of the Pasteur Institute says ozone kills microbes and even destroys itself after acting, offering advantages over heat sterilization. Large scale use has shown 16 of 17 samples sterile after treatment, with ozone improving taste and color while not depleting beneficial salts.
A New York broker recounts an extraordinary spread presented by antiquary Gobel in Brussels in 1871. Apples from Pompeii, wheat from a pyramid chamber, butter from a Scottish well, and wine from Corinth, all aged centuries yet tasted fine.
An old item touts eating apples before bed as a cure all and brain booster citing phos phoric acid, then shifts to a clipped quip from the Scottish Quarterly Review about typographic errors. It mentions Indiana corn records and ends with a proverb about idleness and labor.
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