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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1896
Page
6
Boston experiment shows popular 25 to 50 cent tickets fill houses while high priced seats sit empty. A new cheap operatic venture proves profitable with weekly new melodies and grand opera occasional, drawing wealthy middle class audiences and even fine musicians.
In a San Francisco Post tale a stall owner explains renting a green turtle to restaurants for turtle soup and steaks. The turtle, displayed with a sign, attracts customers while the owner collects fifty cents daily, about 3.50 weekly, for eight months totaling roughly 120 dollars, with no feeding cost and hopes for more routes.
A gold ring lost by a young Homestead woman two years earlier surfaced inside a cow eaten by a Sa terville butcher's purchase. The ring bore the owner’s name, tying the artifact to the young woman after it traveled through a kitten and a pile of chop and bran in a dairy barn. The report also notes a London News letter about the Du Plessis family in the Transvaal Boers and their noble French lineage.
A clergyman from Craddock in the Cape Colony advertises in the focal paper that he is prepared to undertake tuning of pianofortes and to give pianoforte lessons.
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