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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1899
Page
3
Miss Sarah Cunningham of Vancouver has secluded herself for three years, wearing bandages over her eyes and living in a dark cottage on Richards Street. She declares the world is too wicked to behold, preferring a life of solitude and inward focus while avoiding sight of public vice and church life.
Couver correspondent recalls Miss Sarah Cunningham who declares she will never look at the world again to escape its wickedness. She explains her eyes are sound yet she has chosen blindness, trading sight for inner peace while deriding garret legends and a harsh photographer’s gaze.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat quotes an artist debunking the garret as the artist’s ideal shelter. He recalls seeking a garret in New York but finds none, noting the myth contrasts with real life for struggling creators and their lodging.
Grape growers seven miles from St. Joseph Michigan report that lightning last weeks ago ripened green fruit in the Ridge district. The rushed ripening allowed three weeks earlier market entry and prices about 15 cents a basket, double last year’s. A Ridge grower explains the phenomenon and suggests an invention to mimic the effect.
A fifty year old analysis notes that France once could field as many soldiers as Germany but now trails by about one million troops. It reflects on a dramatic shift in relative military strength between the two nations.
A historical note reports that about 50,000 Hebrews reside in Italy, reflecting demographic presence across the country.
Walter Shea of Asbury Park, a coal train brake man, suffered a broken leg and serious injuries after a minor wreck at the Bridge street crossing of the New Jersey Central in Somerville. This marks the third severe injury to Shea in a year on the Central road. His father died on the Central at Hampton about a year ago, and his brother was killed on the line at Elizabeth three months prior.
The Prince enjoyed Robinson Crusoe as a boy and still finds delight in rereading passages about the castaway. The reminiscence highlights the prince's sustained fondness for the classic tale and its enduring appeal.
A gossip-tinged profile chronicles Zella Nicolaus, once a famed New York social figure, chasing fame and money, losing it all, returning to her mother in Indiana, and fading from public view. It compares her fate with Lady Yarde-Buller, whose extravagant life ended in madness and guardianship.
A Conshohocken saloonkeeper kept a silver horseshoe for luck. A group bought drinks for a youth who paid with a new ten but could not make change. They drank about six dollars, then fled after the bartender found the note was a fake advertising a department store. The man later misplaced the silver horseshoe.
A Washington Post vignette describes Mr Oliver Her ford guiding a Sabbath school class where a bright girl quips the rest of the verse on Proverbs. The child offers the joke that “Many are called, but few get up,” delivering the moment with poise.
A writer in an English magazine claims the real average Englishman is a weekly earner of 36, a workingman with no collar, ignorant of toothbrushes and handkerchiefs, shaved only on Sundays, who buys no books and reads only sporting papers.
A housewife prize lies in neat laundering with glossy linens. The ad promotes Red Cross laundry starch by J. C. Hubinger offering coupon books for free first two packages and two Shakespeare pictures, plus a calendar, as an intro.
A Sunday school superintendent answers a question about creation as a shy boy asks why Adam was never a baby. A nine year old girl helps by quipping that there was nobody to miss him, reflecting a humorous exchange from the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A Denver newspaper ad mocks Yon Yonson arriving by railroad train with a humorous phonetic slant. The piece plays on travel by rail and lightnin fast motion, ending with a boast about winning money and a flirtatious line.
Dr. Harry Taylor of Philadelphia was attacked by a vicious parrot that grabbed his eyelid and refused to release him. The bird was beaten off and released the doctor, with the eye lid severely lacerated but the sight not believed to be permanently damaged.
An advertisement claims deafness results from inflamed Eustachian tube mucus and only constitutional remedies can cure it. It promises one hundred dollars for any catarrh deafness not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and invites readers to request circulars from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio. Sold by druggists at 75 cents. Hall's Family Pills also advertised.
Mr Suchsland, a German scientist, asserts that tobacco aroma comes from microbes and aims to patent a process to make inexpensive cigars smell like costly brands.
The Frisco Line Passenger Department issues an illustrated pamphlet promoting Oklahoma’s resources and advantages for homeseekers. Free copies available by writing Bryan Snyder, General Passenger Agent, St Louis MO.
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