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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1901
Page
7
Without commission by the school trustees of Cicero Geo A Philbrick treasurer room 916 Stock Exchange building 108 Lasalle street Chicago offers real estate loans.
Fox and Henry announce a new bakery and catering establishment in the Cummings block at the corner of 64th Avenue and Lake Street, offering special bakery goods confectionery and ice cream. No 6325 West Lake Street Oak Park telephone 1242.
Two silk flags were presented by A C Haven and John Farhon at the Oak Park First Baptist Church Men’s Club banquet. Speakers, including Rev S M Johnson and Judge C S Otting, urged support for government and denounced anarchist ideas amid a discussion titled Anarchy.
Advertised rail offers list round trip Pan American rates to Buffalo at 13.00 with return and 813.00, via Nickel Plate, 15 day limit. Also 20 day tickets at 16.00, five day tickets at 6.00 on Tue Thu Sat, coach only. Through service to New York and Boston. For more details write John Y. Calahan, general agent, 1111 Adams Street, Chicago.
Austin notices detail visits by W H Zimmermann and wife from Champaign Illinois and Tom Kester of Hebron Illinois staying with relatives. Mabel F Alexander returns to Springfield School of Music for graduate study. Club events include Buchre prizes, a Daughters of Veterans euchre party, and Beethoven club plans. Lectures by Rev Abel M White announced for November 11.
The South Side Club of Oak Park announces its 1901 02 season opening at Euclid Avenue Methodist Church with a discussion on separating Oak Park from Cicero. Officers G M Patch Z P Hotchkiss D F Holman listed. A fatal elevated train accident near 210 Home Avenue claims D F Holman. Trainmen released on bail. inquest scheduled.
An Austin optician advertises eye examinations using an improved retinoscope claiming perfect vision measurement. Dr Jenner conducts all exams with the device at the Masonic Building office, open 7 30 to 9 pm weekdays and Sundays 2 to 4 pm, with telephone 78 and prompt house calls.
Ben Hur presents a limited season at Illinois with two initial weeks of performances. Tickets for the first two weeks are sold by mail order with money orders or checks, issued in the order of receipt.
A long list of church events for Sunday services and weeknights across Austin. St Catharine's to hold low and high mass with Benediction next Sunday at Second Baptist. Rev Stackhouse preaches morning and evening. Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, and Baptist schedules with sermons, Sunday schools, prayer meetings, and upcoming events listed.
The Nickel Plate Road will sell tickets each Tuesday Thursday and Saturday in October to Buffalo Pan American exposition and return at 6.00 in coaches with a five day return limit from sale date. Longer limits available at higher rates. Three through daily trains from Chicago station at Van Buren and Pacific, city ticket office 11 Adams Street Chicago.
Mrs W G Bemtey and Mrs W W Tuttle returned from visiting Mr and Mrs Fredric S Niles of Grand Rapids Michigan. Edward Launsbury was struck by a Lake street elevated train at Prairie avenue Saturday but was not badly injured and could not work that day. The Three O'clock Club plans an English Literature program titled Studies in English Literature Folk Poetry Ballads and Epics. The second meeting of the year was at Mrs Eva Burntt's on Tuesday afternoon October 13 with a Kalevala paper by Mrs Thompson and a discussion of Sigurd the Volsung by Mrs Fine.
WANTED SALESMEN TO sell a choice line of nursery stock. Steady work and EXTRA INDUCEMENTS to the right persons. All stock guaranteed. WRITE NOW FOR TERMS and secure a good situation for the fall and winter. Address THE HAWKS NURSERY COMPANY MILWAUKEE WIS Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets priced 25 cents. Samples free at The Avenue Pharmacy Oak Park. G. H. Harris No 79 North 48th avenue Schnitzus' Pharmacy
Scharf and Oetgen at 140 Lake Street Oak Park advertise fresh daily molasses, peanut, almond, cocoanut and butter scotch taffy. They announce new Pan American Squares lemon chocolate and cocoanut at 50 cents each, available daily.
The column lists lessons in burnt wood and arts including oil watercolor and china painting with orders accepted. J H Roberts of the Austin Pantatorium will reopen next week after four weeks in Haneman hospital for an operation. Oakdale hotel offers rooms with board as the summer rush ends. J K Parks and J P Garner's drug store handle mail orders for wood weather strips in various woods.
The November Century launches its thirty second year as a year of American Humor. It features humorous stories and poems by Twain Herford Wells Dunbar and others. A Retrospect of American Humor by Prof. W P Trent leads, with more than thirty portraits of humorists from Franklin to Mr Dooley.
Special fare notices list six dollar round trips to Pan American and return, with rail option on Nickel Plate for selected days and five day sale limit. Fifteen and twenty day round trips priced at thirteen and sixteen dollars, sleeping car access available. Three through daily trains. For details, contact John Y. Calahan, general agent, 1141 Adams Street, Chicago.
Thousands verdict favors all wood weather strips over coal in a local dispute. Orders may be left at J P Garners drug store or at residence 5829 Superior Street Austin for prompt attention by J K Parks.
The Nickel Plate road advertises round trip Buffalo Pan American tickets at 13 dollars for fifteen days and 16 dollars for twenty days. Three daily trains with vestibuled creeping cars provide dining car meals from 35 cents to 1 dollar. Address John Y. Calahan, general agent, 111 Adams Street, Chicago. No. 38 Oct.
Professor J E K N N B announces a new office at 453 N Boulevard Oak Park with contact telephone 222 for consultations on magnetic halt research.
The lectures by President Harper of Chicago University at Ok Park have drawn great interest. The second lecture on Old Testament Prophecy will be Friday night October 18 at 8 o clock. It presents a fine opportunity to hear this noted teacher and preacher.
A collage of brief notes and quips on society, currency, education, and law. Mentions Victoria’s lineage, Boston’s many model schoolhouses, U S coin production, a seasoned newsboy on a Santa Fe line, a Salem Street sign for undertakers, and age of criminal responsibility differences between England and Germany.
Sunday School held at 3:00 PM led by James M. Adam. Indy night service at 7:30 PM with Rev. Sydney Strong preaching. This marks first Sunday night service. All are urged to attend Sunday school and services.
A series of aphoristic musings touch on fate wealth politics religion and hypocrisy. The speaker questions greatness the risk of public office and the mutual blindness of humanity while warning that hypocrites may feign emotion and moral stance in court.
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