09 Oct 1891
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1891
Page
1
A hodgepodge of curiosities and brief items touches Mediterranean sunlight grain in geese crops in California a German bicycle boom Hebrew constitutional texts in New York and a Welsh speaking parrot at Craig y Nos Also notes on vanadium in Argentina Alaska exports and a Brazilian constitution restricting voting to the educated and free.
Notable items cover education and revenue trends, Indian affairs and enrollment, territorial statehood talk for Arizona, and a wide range of disasters and incidents. Reports mention public school enrollment 12,686,078 in 1889-90, grain stocks, tax receipts, and the 60th Indian affairs report urging legal protections for Indians. Other notices include accidents in Cincinnati and Oklahoma floods, a Grant statue unveiling, and multiple fatalities from fires, collisions, and a wall collapse. The period ends with distant references to rail and oil industry events and a cyclone impact in Minnesota.
Summary of incidents includes a Kingston savings institution robbery totaling 403000 dollars by treasurer and assistant treasurer, the death of ex congressman Jacob Turney in Greensburg at 66, a gas explosion at Richardson colliery Glen Carbon killing twelve, a 150000 dollar fire loss at East Cambridge packing, severe storms on ships near Newfoundland, and the brig Minnie Elkin lost with twenty crew. Also notes a new oil well in McDonald drilling to 14.40 barrels per day, a fatal tenement house fire in New York, a rapid Canton to Philadelphia train run, indictment of Prof. Bricas for religious disbelief, a boy's death in Orbisonia, the death of Charles Carroll Sawyer in Brooklyn, a wagon collision killing four in gif Ford s New York, a Bethlehem gun under water test, cigar manufacturers forming a trust, and Malden shoornors taught to sew at school.
The season closes with Boston atop the league standings and other clubs listed by percentages. Incidents include Franrz Fous’ murder suicide in Walla Walla, a boiler explosion in Chicago killing eight, and a river accident near Bluffton. Also reports of drownings, a stockyard fire, and neglectful accidents across several states.
In a string of reports, frames at flairfax Nova Scotia destroyed property worth 400000 while grave raulers were allegedly stoned. Mexico and Cuba see violence with Garcia and a planter couple murdered near Quivican. British and European losses and political shifts fill the page as Milan and Stuttgart highs surface.
A Republican National Committee meeting is set for November 23 in Washington to decide the time and place for the next national convention. Other items include flood losses in Mexico, theater fire in St Paul, a Cape May financier failure, and multiple local incidents across the country.
A grand display marked the unveiling of the Ulysses S Grant monument at Lincoln Park Chicago. Generals Miles Sheridan and staff led divisions, with veterans and civic groups following, as Mary Strong removed the veil and a 21 gun salute rang out.
At a Fifth Avenue Hotel meeting Bishop Whipple presided in Winthrop’s absence. The last year income totaled 874,487 distributed to Alabama Arkansas Colorado Georgia Louisiana North Carolina Tennessee Nashville Peabody normal school Texas Virginia West Virginia.
Financial statistics note a whisky sale in Lexington Kentucky reaching five hundred thousand dollars, reported as the largest on record. Other data include world coffee crop value and sugar plantation ownership, census valuations, a major southern dam, and railroad wreck clearing technology.
A fragmented ad note praises a remedy described as their action perfect and tiny. It hints at a medical or patent medicine claim with a reference to a jar and pills. The readable text remains unclear on brand specifics beyond Carter’s likely associated product.
The article explains that most physicians now view consumption as a germ disease caused by tiny bacilli entering the body via food air or skin pores. These germs attack the lungs and are aided by German Syrup which loosens kills expels and heals the damage, making invalids germ proof and well.
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