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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1900
Page
2
The south side of Cicero complains of school advantages and suggests annexation to Chicago for high school access. Harlem begins a municipal electric light project watched in the locality, as gas lighting expands at $1 per thousand in the rival market.
Alderman Frank L. Race has Mayor Harrison's approval to flood the east end of Merrick Park for skating this winter. Firemen will lay the hose and turn on the water. A name Race Park is proposed for the season. The Hawthorne track cost $1000 a day for its privileges, suggesting high seasonal costs.
The day after the presidential vote Chicago papers plan for spring elections, expecting a Republican mayor as Mayor Harrison lacks past press support. Oak Park River Forest joint high school assessment faces Supreme Court challenge led by Jesse A Baldwin. A suburban railroad runs tracks on 24 street before Grant locomotive works with no public service and a five cent fare desired.
Austin business leaders discuss an early closure plan for winter. Barbers seek shorter hours and druggists favor reduced duration. A representative meeting could yield an agreement soon.
An entertaining program Friday night by Messrs Stark and Sawyer titled Town Talk drew a crowded audience. The event spanned classical solos and nursery rhymes, tracing music’s history and inspiring interest in a possible reprise.
At meetings in the Thirty-fifth ward precincts officers were elected for each precinct. Names include Henry Thiele and Carl Bloomberg in Precinct One, H. M. Blood and M. S. Wilcox in Precinct Two, Dr. F. R. Hunt and F. Merriman in Precinct Three, E. J. Whitehead and Frank L Race in Precinct Four, N. B. Graves and R. B. Driges in Precinct Five, W. C. Logue and A. A. Meredith in Precinct Six, J. H. Cooper and John Olsen in Precinct Seven. The regular club election will be held next Tuesday at Republican club headquarters on Lake Street.
Only eight states have voted Republican in every presidential year since 1860. Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Pennsylvania Iowa and Minnesota show this uniform pattern across history.
The Austin Chess and Checker Club anticipates Mr. B Uedemann, chess editor of the Chicago Tribune, playing simultaneous games in Austin. A recent 19 board simultanous loss count is noted. Ambrose and Nelson resume a checkers match, club invites local players Wednesdays and Thursdays after December 1, dues 25 cents, address 103 North Park avenue.
Announcement that Captain William M Meredith of Austin was appointed chief of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving brings great rejoicing from his many friends in Austin. He is well known locally and considered the right choice for the position.
The Austin Woman's Club met Monday November 19 with Mrs. Butler of Oak Park presenting a paper titled Home. Her talk sparked wide discussion and was well received by members and guests. Mrs. Waugh McCullough was scheduled to speak on Woman in Politics but was delayed by illness. The evening included entertainment from the Department of Music Art and Literature and Hum and Education at Mrs. R Newell's home.
Miss Marie Rathert and Mr Theo dore W Rieke wed at 6 pm Thursday November 22 1900 in the Rathert residence with Rev George Hild and Rev A Bartling officiating The wedding featured bridesmaids Clara Hild and Caroline Rathert and groomsmen Jank Hankermeyer and Theodore Hild The couple will reside at 127 Baird Avenue Austin after December 1 with out of town guests from Fort Wayne and Elmhurst.
A correspondence game between Nicholas Nelson of Austin and J. D. Ambrose of Oak Park concluded last Wednesday with Nelson resigning as Black. The game, continued after a hopeless position, remained sound until move thirty-two before resignation. White had gained a man and chose to play for accuracy rather than risky chances.
Plymouth resident Dr. Isaac L. Wood describes two extraordinary apples from Kamloops British Columbia weighing 28 and nearly 29 ounces each and measuring about sixteen inches in circumference. He notes an agricultural fair apple reached 29 ounces. A single fruit could bake a large pie for a typical household.
The article details ritual cannibalism among South American tribes. It notes the Mayuruan group’s pious embrace of consuming kin, the Yamnas marrow practices to transfer souls, and the Kashibos feast where old men are killed and eaten. It cites the Botokudoa region practices as well.
The Chicago Chronicle reports on cannibalism among South American tribes, noting motives of revenge, religious rites, and psychological factors. It cites Herberg on Gauca tribes in Colombia and references the Kashibos of the upper Amazon as especially predatory, with captives eaten as a norm and widespread detestation by neighbors.
Marguerite Bouyenval has slept for seventeen years in Thenelles, feared to awaken and die. Doctors, peasants, and Charcot study the case as her mother tends to the still form in a two room cottage and the world watches with grim interest.
Jeannette Gilder in the Critic notes that Japanese servants are prized at sea but less reliable on land. A Columbia junior and a Harvard divinity student appear among her anecdotes, including a prince who travels to study American manners and other samurai distinctions among service staff.
Ginger essence from Jamaica is a valuable family medicine used with sugar in cold water for drinking. Ginger tea from the root aids perspiration and fever relief, and a bit chewed root can ease toothache until a dentist is seen. The piece notes ginger can mimic alcoholic stimulants but warns of a “ginger habit.”
A Louisville area correspondent recounts an anecdote about Abraham Lincoln before his presidency. Lincoln woke late, told a servant he would start a fire in another room, then urged warmth while he finished the one in progress. The tale appears in the Atlanta Constitution.
The obituary notes the death of Hwdgar L Stafford It secretary and manager of the Dodge manufacturing business in Austin. Born Valley City, he moved to Austin twelve years ago and lived at 5916 Erie Street. He leaves a wife and four children, mother, and one brother. Funeral held November 18 at Mt Carmel vault with burial later in Davenport Iowa. Also listed are Owen B Brooks and Julia A Dudley with their funeral details and family ties.
Mrs Belle Watson Melville a nationally known reader and impersonator will perform at the First M E Church Oak Park on Tuesday evening December 4 She is assisted by Miss Edna Hearle Crum violinist and Master Harry Canevin the boy alto Tickets priced at 85 cents
D. H. Turner of Dempseytown Pa reports feeling in his teens after using Dr King's New Life Pills for two weeks. The purely vegetable liver stomach and bowels remedy is advertised as gentle with no griping and priced at 25 cents at Traill Cooling and Chas P Miller drug stores.
The piece explains chain breakages happen when a rider pushes a stiffened chain over cog wheels. It advises loosening the chain significantly during muddy rides to reduce stress, noting the risk of a slack chain riding the teeth but deeming the lesser danger acceptable.
The present Czar of Russia during his youth toured the Orient returning through Siberia. The voyage is chronicled in a magnificent English edition, with the second volume recently released. It is superbly illustrated and stands as one of the finest books of its kind.
In 1899 Paris recorded 46 988 deaths with consumption responsible for 12 314, about one fourth. Of these deaths, 37.2 percent were ages 1 to 20 and 60.2 percent aged 20 to 40, meaning two thirds of victims died in the prime of life.
A local paper carries an ad from a lady seeking a servant to cook and dress children. The piece notes the shift in fashion language and contrasts it with the line about four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie, remarking that children dressed are made a new fashion topic in the papers.
Paris is hailed as the cleanest city in the world with 2,000 men and 600 women scavengers forming 149 brigades. They work ten hours daily from 4 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a two hour lunch break, while youths work mornings only.
Morris A. Paterson offers five-room flats with hot and cold water electric light gas and bath at 1115 Lake Street.
Classified sale notes list household goods for a five room flat at 6809 Sophia Austin and an exchange offer for an improved Austin property a house and lot for 2600 plus a corner La Grange lot. Also Oak Park Club membership, a cheap heating stove, and a Prince Patchen gelding horse with a 2 18 pacer record for sacrifice or exchange.
For sale or rent a seven room house with gas and bath near Chicago avenue on Park. Cali at 529 North Central avenue Austin. For sale strictly modern new home eight rooms quartered oak trim Flemish dining room French art windows waxed floors colonial porch hall seat side board bookcases excellent location price 3800 dollars. Call A. D. Orvis 405 North Fourth avenue Maywood.
Competent dress maker offers family sewing and outwork at one dollar per day. Address Miss C Sorensen 105 Austin avenue Oak Park. Found gray horse about 1600 pounds in Galewood Ill. Inquire Geo Gmmenga owner write letter and will call Oak Park avenue and North avenue Galewood Ill
A Christmas gift plan offers a one year subscription to The Youth's Companion with extra items. New 1901 Puritan Girl calendar, 12 color prints, and free remaining 1900 issues with subscription. Gift purchasers receive a printed certificate for display and sample copies of the 1901 volume.
The article argues that the average small boy struggles to accept limits on talking and eating, highlighting parental or institutional rules that curb his appetite for freedom and self expression.
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