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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1900
Page
2
The article records several short items from Oak Park and nearby areas. It mentions mild weather, Packard defending Dowle for race makers, Hawthorne added to Wyons by county commissioners, an Oak Park officer arresting a man for stealing fly paper, a western editor’s remark on editor theft, and alderman Race’s public lavatories proposal in Chicago with city council relevance.
Capt. W. M. Meredith spent Thanksgiving with family and will return to Washington to assume duties as superintendent Monday morning. A Washington reception last week drew 2,300 people who personally met and shook hands with him.
The expression all aboard allegedly began last summer when Dutton and Utley escorted President Jones to Michigan to finalize a rate track deal. After the deal closed Dutton reportedly shouted all aboard, fearing the president might not understand the alternative, and the phrase has since become common usage.
Oak Park Argus accuses readers and rivals of manipulating reports on Hawthorne, claiming the Nov 9 issue was intercepted by a Klondiker and pasted into scrapbooks. The paper says its stance on Hawthorne is clear despite perceived attempts to distort it.
The Oak Park Republican Club backs a plan to divide Cicero into separate towns by state law. Proponents see a path to sever Berwyn Clyde Morton Park and avoid annexation by Chicago, while critics warn of high costs and unwill ing leaders seeking public office.
According to Ordinances 1867 1872 1873 obstructions found in alleys day or night on and after Dec a same will be acted on according to Vincer and a CAHILL Superintendent 36th Ward Chicago.
A 1901 Chicago city council ordinance introduced by Alderman Race calls for public lavatories under sidewalks at several downtown sites including State Clark and Washington streets and near City Hall. The measure, funded at 25000 dollars, assigns a keeper, charging a penny for water closet use, with urinals free. The ordinance was referred to the judiciary committee.
The Christian Church ladies host a bazaar at 207 N Park Ave from December 6 to 8, daily 10 to 10, offering toys, home baked goods, canned fruits, magazines, and a European plan café. A scientific palmist will attend Friday and Saturday to share forecasts and memories.
The bulletin lists December meeting dates for the Woman's Club of Austin with programs on history travel literature and music. Notable speakers include Rev Sydney Strong Dr Rosalie Ladova and Mrs James T Frake. Hostesses include Margaret Isgrig Helen Nissen Ella J Stone and others.
Union Thanksgiving services at the Methodist church featured Rev. Geo. B. Safford of the Fifty-second Avenue Presbyterian delivering an address on gratitude and arbitration. The congregational choir provided singing while ministers from Second Baptist First Congregational First Presbyterian and others attended under Rev. Geo A Campbell who presided.
The Proviso Guards elected Captain Ralph J. Wells of Maywood and First Lieutenant B. H. Kannenberg of Oak Park. They leased Maywood hall for a year as armory and drill hall with weekly Friday drills. Members hail from Oak Park River Forest Harlem Maywood and Melrose Park. 18 to 35 year olds of good standing may apply via Captain Wells or any member.
Dr Janae L Wood of Plymouth Mass reports two apples from a Kamloops British Columbia orchard. One fruit measures 15.75 inches in circumference and weighs 23 ounces, another is nearly as large. She recalls an apple at Kamloops fair weighing 29 ounces. A single apple could make a pie for a typical household.
The Washington Star notes visual limits of the sky, estimating 2,000 stars visible to keen sight on clear nights, 5,000 to 8,000 under best conditions, and over 50,000,000 stars reachable by the largest telescope, reflecting astronomical perspective.
In Washington county Maine the season will yield 400 car loads of Christmas trees with 360 bunches per car. Each bunch holds two to six trees. The trees are shipped to New York and Boston where they will fetch about ten times their Maine value at retail.
After extensive experiments officials announce a public telephone line between England and Belgium. The Belgian leg will run from La Panne near the French border about forty five miles. Tariff is set at 1.93 dollars for three minutes.
Eighteen years after Sir Frederick Cavendish was murdered in Phoenix park Dublin Lady Frederick Cavendish, now a widow, has rarely appeared in public beyond wearing black. Her careworn face is familiar to many women in charity work, which has become her main concern.
Money is being subscribed chiefly in Boston to test in the United States Supreme Court the constitutionality of election laws in Louisiana and North Carolina that practically disfranchise Black citizens. The total expense is expected to be about $6,000.
The Austrian glove industry has grown sharply from 1880 to the present. Production rose from about 500 000 dozens in 1880 to 1 750 000 dozens in 1897 and now nears 2 000 000 dozens.
A Connecticut manufacturer completed a state carriage for Ecuador's government at a cost of $100,000. The design mirrors papal and khedive carriages but omits solid gold ornaments and gems.
A compact collage of quotations on religion from figures like Adam, Whately, Johnson, Hare, Burke, and Franklin. The excerpts praise true faith, warn against vanity, and urge propagation of genuine beliefs, highlighting religion as a civilizing, gentlemanly force.
A collection of proverbs on temper, money, friendship, work, news, fame, time, and human folly. It offers blunt observations like caution about anger, the unpredictability of wealth, and the perils of trust, with many bites of moral instruction.
A collection of brief curiosities notes varied facts from wood cutting salaries to grain imports. It cites a 1902 Berlin population figure, a Dingley process act date, and lunar earth illumination comparisons, with quirky quotes on poultry and landladies.
Multiple notices report the deaths of Nettie Ohlfrick hurley Ohlrick. William Hilliard Wood a longtime Oak Park resident. Mrs Lucy A Brewster aged 81. Arthur H Sickles of Evanston. Mrs S Block of Austin. Services at Forest Home Cemetery and Rose Hill. Survivors include children Frances Ingraham Kippax and Ira Couch Wood.
Mrs Belle Watson Melville, nationally known reader and impersonator, to give a recital at First M. E. Church Oak Park Tuesday evening December 4. She will be assisted by Edna Harle Crum violinist and Harry Canevin boy alto. Tickets 35 cents.
A local ad testimonial from D H Turner of Dempseytown Pa praises Dr Kings New Life Pills claiming renewed youthful energy after two weeks use. The note calls the pills purely vegetable, non gagging and affordable at Traill and Coolsing and Chas P Millers drug stores with a 25 cent price.
Thos Whitfield & Co of Chicago reports widespread use of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for la grippe with no pneumonia cases. They note rapid recovery and prevention of pneumonia tendency. Available from J P Garner & Co in Austin and Geo Koch & Co in Moreland.
A collection of aphorisms and figures cites waste in London, gendered remarks, grape wine production, the rise of automobile clubs, ridicule as ignorance, American travel spending in Europe, wood fire enjoyment, and manufacturing growth in the United States since 1890.
In Oak Park and River Forest a range of ads seek help and services. A German tutor Mrs Leggatt offers lessons at 25 cents each from 381 Lake Street River Forest. Dressmaking and children's clothes repairs are needed at 5422 Rice Street second flat. Rooms for light housekeeping near the elevated requested. Washing tasks offered by Mrs. Sullivan 1026 North Waller Avenue. Office help sought for a capable typist at 451 N Boulevard Oak Park. Mortgage loans offered by F H Pray 107 North Park Avenue Austin.
Black leather pocketbook missing from Waller avenue between Erie and Lake streets contains about seven dollars. Finder may keep nothing. reward offered. Return to 502 North Waller avenue.
Oak Park Club membership for sale at H 20 care Vin dicator. Heating stove cheap at Vindicator office. Prince Patchen gelding pacer 2 18 record owner selling or exchanging for a lot at XX 40 Vindicator. Strictly modern eight room home $3 800 A D Orvis 405 North Fourth Ave Maywood. Great Dane dog male one year old pedigreed and bay mare five years old 900 lb Geo Gronendyke 97 W 12th Harlem Il.
Nickel Plate railway offers December 22 to 25 and December 21 1900 plus January 1 1901 travel at one and a third fares for round trips within Central Passenger association area. Return by January 2 1901. Vestibuled sleeping cars and dining cars with meals 35 cents to 1.00. Details from John Y Cala han general agent at 111 Adams Chicago, depot at Van Buren and Pacific on elevated loop.
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