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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1898
Page
3
In the Wilderness stillroom Ruby Champlesy and Shell discuss a garden party and dress plans while others debate the children’s care. Shell resists Ruby's controlling tone as Ted, Nora, and Meg are part of a daylong web of duties, gifts, and looming wardrobe decisions.
The Charleston Civil War trap near the Housatonic ends in disaster as a torpedo boat sinks the cruiser. The boat vanishes in fog, the Housatonic flares, and four sailors perish. wreckage later reveals the torpedo boat still aboard.
An 19th century travel note describes Brindisi in southern Haly as a site where tarantula bites are treated by dance and ritual. Dancers wear masks and animal jaws, perform for two nights, and a chicken is offered as a demon passes into the bird. A sacred well near Brindisi is believed to cure the tarantula sting. The Sinhalese devil dancers in Ceylon are noted as fierce professionals who perform at sickbed ceremonies to appease demons, with village rituals and trance-like dances.
Prof ltdecker declares science now fixes human evolution through stages from the lowest life form over a billion years. Prof Haecker adds that man is a primate and that monkeys apes and humans share a single common stem.
A wry saying notes that a man who fully grasps the wheat market tricks and tactics tends to avoid further involvement, implying expertise detaches him from risky speculation.
Mrs. Coburn, wife of Trinity Episcopal pastor in Denver, becomes first woman to reach Mount Evans summit. A climbing party including Rev. Frank S. Spalding and others achieves the Grand Teton ascent amid extreme danger, crawling on abdomens and navigating 3,000 foot drops, challenging long‑held beliefs about the peak.
Debris washing, a long standing Kimberley practice, overhauls earth to recover diamonds. Borough permits and ten percent municipal tax on gross funds fund the scheme, yielding £960 last year. Early methods wasted many stones, but modern debris washing proves profitable as workers labor from sunrise to sunset.
A Sisterville quarrel led to a street duel with both men firing twice. four fatally wounded, five others injured, two of whom will die. The article notes broader cultural contrasts with French dueling and mocks Western methods versus bird and bottle tributes.
An expert in military chemistry notes that explosive power comes from nitrogen. In air nitrogen and oxygen form a mechanical mix, not a compound, and an explosion is a burst for liberty of captive nitrogen. Theoretically a pinhead could hold enough energy to destroy an ironclad, signaling future vast developments.
W Rankin Good, president of the American Boy Battleship Association, toured Chicago and Eastern cities reporting offers from rich men to fund the ship but he will stick to the plan. Over 35000 dollars has already been raised by American youths, who thus far contribute through their own efforts. The Black Rat Trap Co offers boys five cents per trap sold, with traps priced at ten cents and built of steel. Boys selling twenty traps can earn a dollar and earn entry on the roll of honor. Funds should be sent to W Rankin Good in Cincinnati.
A visitor at a studio admires several paintings and asks about the subjects. The artist declines to name the sitters, then playfully reveals a self portrait by saying the pretty lady in brown is himself.
The Edward W. Walker Carriage Co. of Goshen Indiana issues a handsome Phaeton supplement to their catalogue along with a new line of spring wagons. They urge readers to request the catalogue to learn of high quality work and factory direct pricing.
Scientists report the purest city air lies about 25 feet up, suggesting healthier apartments on the third floor. Mt. Ayr notes Sept 5, 98 with Mrs. Sadie ML Skinner promoting Coat’s Headachs Capsules at 10 and 5 cents. America consumes 14,000,000 cigar boxes yearly.
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