19 Oct 1900
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1900
Page
1
Barrister Paul Enderby meets a pale seventeen year old girl fleeing along the embankment at 1 am. She is pale and breathless, refuses a cab, and says she is going to the hospital after a fall. He helps her and notes her refined features despite her distress.
Enderby helps a gravely injured girl toward a hospital after she reveals her father is very ill. He arranges for a policeman and a cab, decides to fetch Doctor Howarth, and contemplates the mysterious danger surrounding the girl and a passing cabman named Dalton as he quests for care.
On October 3 Enderby inquiries about Dr Lyndon. A porter misleads him to a non existent doctor. He hails a cab to the bridge where a pale, fearful girl awaits. He reveals the doctor left the hospital a month ago.
The article portrays General Loudon Woodford at 65 choosing Isabel Hanson 25 as his wife and secretary amid a landscape of admirers. Isabel is described as demure blue eyed and fair, while Woodford carries dignity from a career as soldier diplomat and politician.
A man hurled himself at a car with fury, backing away and charging again until the vehicle shook. The animal finally retreated, leaving two large holes in the front end and a useless headlight.
A Kansas City Journal clipping notes rainfall valued at $35,000,000 for Kansas with corn market implications and price shifts. The piece mixes scattered excerpts on clocks, politics, and a trolley incident, interlaced with reflections on missionaries in China and a knights of Pythias anecdote.
The 90 year effort to Christianize China has grown to 53 mission organizations with about 2,500 missionaries and 5,000 native pastors and assistants. Protestant converts approach 100,000 while 40,000 students study in mission schools. A range of auxiliary societies expand activities including Bible and tract societies, printing offices, and youth groups as they advance their mission. Li Hung Chang reportedly noted that Chinese prefer others to tend their bodies, while Chinese seek medical missionaries to address physical needs.
In Prussia over ten years ending 1896, 407 school children died by their own hands, underscoring a grave public health concern affecting youths and education authorities.
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