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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1895
Page
6
A survey of seasonable millinery and dress trends notes revival of old crowns and bonnets, novel wraps and capotes, wide hats, plumes, and intricate passementerie. It highlights the Rob Roy collar, bold overcoats for business women in gray chinchilla, and plaid fabrics fueling a new movement toward practical yet stylish attire.
A detailed fashion notice describes a stylish overcoat with belt plaits, hidden buttons, and quilted silk lining, noting its comfort and potential waterproof version. The article shifts to a profile of Prince Henry of Prussia, praising his looks, seamanship, charity, and artistic talents while detailing his feud with Emperor William and his gradual exclusion from power.
The Russian plan marks Jenner’s first experiments a hundred years ago and offers four prizes for essays on vaccination. Entries will cover vaccination history in Russia and western Europe, with a Russian Jenner translation, an exhibition of vaccination artifacts, and a centenary event to be held on the anniversary day.
Austin Wadsworth of the Geneseo area champions farming as a profitable future in America. The article profiles his large estate, recent acquisitions, and his view that farmers must modernize, study soils, rotate crops, and invest brains into farming to prosper. It notes a relic winnowing device shown by local antiquities collector Lewis.
Japanese barracks reportedly lack gymnasiums yet their troops rank among the world’s best gymnasts. In under half a minute they allegedly scale a 34 foot wall by forming a human pyramid with one man supporting two or three comrades.
In London a proposal advances for an overhead railway linking Waterloo station to the city. If realized it would alter transit routes and require capital investment and construction milestones.
A brief note reports that in Greenland potatoes remain small within a hot interstellar environment labeled HII, with growth limited to marble-sized sizes. Researchers note environmental constraints and potential genetic factors affecting yields.
Hungary marks a thousand years since the Pannonian state emerged and will celebrate with a six month national exposition in Budapest, led by Prime Minister Baron Desiderius de Banffy. The program includes a historical panorama, political milestones, and a modern display of prosperity with exhibits, costumes, and works by painter Munkicsy.
Mrs B H Griffith of Atlanta is celebrated as the first American woman to master chiming. The Vangugen chimes at the Atlanta Exposition wow visitors, with tunes like Nellie Gray and The Old Oaken Bucket echoing from the Belfry. Griffith, daughter of Captain William Batt, defied doubts and elevated chime music, linking Chicago and Atlanta exhibitions with a notable female achievement.
Prominent clergymen and Christian businessmen plan a 15000 acre North Carolina mountain colony near Asheville 200 miles away. The project aims at health and social reform for mountaineers, with annual member efforts and profits devoted to colony improvements. Rev John G Collins leads the enterprise with ties to the International Christian Workers' association.
London physician Dr Helen Densmore tours the country to promote her dietetic plan and fund a campaign for the release of American prisoner Mrs Maybrick, jailed in Woking for poisoning her husband in Liverpool six years ago. Her efforts align with Gail Hamilton’s work in the U S as she seeks speeches and donations to sway public opinion.
The text notes calls to donate 40 cents toward the Maybrick fund for missionary work across the sea, with belief the sum will suffice. It mentions Sir Charles Russell criticizing the trial, prompting commutation to life penal servitude, and outlines Mrs. Densmore as a Washington journalist and advocate with views on diet, highlighting her pioneering status and marriage to Dr. Emmett Densmore.
A four year old French girl in Paris astonishes distinguished audiences by composing ballet polkas mazurkas and marches at a young age. She later wrote Fingal an opera and conducted 120 musicians at Notre Dame du Paris performing the prelude. Her meetings with Saint Saens Massenet and Delibes are cited with high praise.
A dog on a solitary New Mexico ranch tended a flock for two years after its master's death. Each evening the dog drove the sheep to pasture and, as the last sheep entered the fold, seized it for food. The flock increased in number and the dog remained at duty until the owner’s remains were found.
A lone tiger in Dogpoord near Ruttenghur fort is shot after a tense chase in a cave. The group fires from a ledge and tree poses, but the beast survives multiple near misses before finally dying, warning of the danger of skinning evidence and revealing lessons learned by young hunters.
A French physician urges yawning as a healthy practice and even recommends artificial yawning for sore throat catarrh and related troubles. He says yawning is as effective as gargling and should be used alongside throat rinsing.
An ordinary spider silk thread can bear three grains of weight, about 60 percent stronger than a steel thread of the same thickness. The fact highlights the remarkable toughness of spider silk compared with steel in equal dimensions.
A Japanese war song was recently sent to Le Monde Moderne from Tokyo. The tune is Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Bars Are Marching.
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