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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1896
Page
8
A dramatic ballad warns a gentle lady against a tempting stranger. The gipsy offers a cautious prophecy about doomed love, urging the woman to guard her youth and avoid danger, lest she share the grave of the gipsy’s child.
In Le Vaillant's account a tame chacma baboon commands guard dogs to protect a camp. The ape alarms the camp with cries, directs the dogs, and signals where enemies approach, demonstrating animal intelligence and cooperative hunting behavior.
A tale portrays Peter the Great as impulsive and high handed. He studies dentistry and boasts dexterity in drawing a tooth. He questions a valet about his wife's toothache, then forcibly extracts the tooth. The deception was blamed on the valet, and the czar punished him for both deception and misdiagnosis.
A Viennese sensation emerges as Pisk, an Austro-Hungarian performer, cracks two long lashes with stout handles to orchestral accompaniment. The whip sounds range from rifle-like reports to soft billiard-click notes, illustrating his dramatic skill and showmanship.
A performer showcases a long lash whip with a heavy handle. He strikes a calfskin frame, tearing holes to prove no trickery. He then targets apples on shelves and snatches coins from a bottle neck without tipping it, wowing the audience with precise lash work.
An English naturalist reports that wasps become intoxicated from fermenting fruit sugars, especially grapes and some plums. Drunk wasps fight, sting viciously, and afterward rest, recovering before repeating the pattern. The observer notes similar behavior to humans.
The article cites Thomas Manning who visited Thibet at the start of the century and described prayer wheels or whirlgigs. Cylindrical wheels spin freely on an axis with sacred sentences inside, serving as a substitute for recitation. Some wheels are hand turned, others fixed in the ground or moved by water power. They are said to have functioned for over a thousand years.
A Woolwich Arsenal worker, while casing metal for ordnance, fell into a caldron of twelve tons of molten steel and was instantly consumed. War Department officials held a conference and chose not to reuse the metal for weapons, burying it and having a churchman conduct a service over the dead.
A Pittsburgh Dispatch report from Russia describes Dr Noishewski and his device using selenium and tellurium that alters electrical conductance with light. The apparatus lets a totally blind man detect windows and distinguish people from animals after practice, aiming to near certainty for detecting opaque versus transparent objects.
In Biddeford Maine an obliging woman pawned her wedding ring to fund drinks for her husband and several men at a local gathering. The incident appears in the town paper and highlights a charitable act turned questionable social misstep.
A brief dialogue reveals a family’s sympathy for insomnia as the speaker says they sit up all night and practice on their accordion to cope. The exchange highlights personal coping through music and humor.
A Paducah Kentucky baby born in a pesthouse is claimed by local doctors to never need vaccination. The statement reflects historical health beliefs about immunity and disease in quarantine facilities.
Henry Irving plans a Cymbeline revival noting twenty four prior stage productions since Shakespeare. Sarah Bernhardt writes a new play while Adelaide Neilson and historic Imogen performances are recalled along with anecdotes from early productions and industry taps.
Anna Held, now in New York, is an English girl with a Paris reputation built at the Folies-Bergeres and the Eldorado where she rose to prominence.
Discussion centers on M Marchand taking La Scala engagement for 1900 and Miss Held's Paris and London successes. The piece notes New York offers bonuses for a debut and contrasts Modjeska with other leading actresses in upcoming performances. Mentions critique of The Age of Gold and advice to study play construction.
Lillian Russell reveals a vast slipper collection begun at age fourteen. She describes ninety two varieties including Nell Gwynne and a Greek sandal older than Christianity with a tomb like odor. She also notes an old Roman slipper with bright colors, gold and pearls.
Nat Goodwin plans a December return from Australia. Olga Nethersole opens an American tour in Brooklyn. New pieces by Cecil Raleigh and J. W. Pigott surface, with others in London and New York. The Mandarin casts Boniface Jr and others. Pauline French arrives in Daly’s company as a standout newcomer.
Mrs. Mary Noren of Valparaiso describes relief from long standing stomach and rheumatic pains after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. She notes improved appetite breast strength and overall health after three boxes and urges others to try the remedy. The pills cost 50 cents a box or six for $2.50 and are sold by doctors or mailed from Schenectady New York.
A 1792 custom chronicles visiting by chairs and footmen carrying cards to ask if a hostess was at home. Great ladies hosted routs with blocked streets while others held frequent card parties profiting from card money. servants collected tips, but thrifty housewives kept coins beneath candlesticks.
The ad proclaims Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. It asserts internal action on blood and mucous surfaces to destroy the disease foundation and strengthen the patient. A $100 reward is offered for any case that fails to cure backed by testimonials.
Orfordville farmers report to Janeville Chief Acheson that Officer Nels Thorston confronted a beer keg party in a vacant barn. He was roughly handled when the crowd captured him and dumped the keg contents over his uniform as they amused themselves.
An advertisement touts No-To-Bac as a cure for tobacco addiction promising renewed vigor and weight gain with 400 000 cures claimed and free booklet. A separate letter from Omaha Nebraska describes illness and credits Dr Kay's Renovator with cure, while the text notes druggists sell No-To-Bac for 25 cents to one dollar.
Summerville Ga marksman Mr Smyser, nearly 97, showed steady aim by firing ten rounds at sixty feet and scoring seven hits during a recent practice session.
Bulgaria counts 3 883 residents aged over 100 years. The article notes centenarians as notable figures only after they pass the century threshold.
The South is praised as a pleasant garden region with mild winters and enjoyable summers. Monon Route offers home seekers excursion tickets to many Southern points at one first class fare, valid for return on any Tuesday or Friday within thirty-one days, with liberal stop-overs. Excursions start October 19 and 20. contact Monon Route agents or Frank J. Reed, G P A, Chicago.
A man named Henry B. McFerran travels through southern states claiming to represent the Chicago World to obtain credit. the World reports no pedestrian acting on its behalf. The note lists various cures and products, from Piso’s Cure to Camels to Mrs Winslow’s Syrup, with unrelated promotional lines and odd facts about pensions and a duke’s mausoleum cost.
Workmen at Beatty cross-tie and tanbark yards in Portsmouth Ohio corral a large wildcat found in a wagonload of tanbark. Several men suffer bites before the animal is killed. The tanbark came from Richard Greenslate of Tygart Kentucky who traveled most of the trip at night and fainted on discovering his animal companion.
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