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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1900
Page
3
Nee Bana a Penobscot beauty on an Old Town island receives a Kansan City National bank offer to have her face engraved on its checks. The tale, set in a western banking pitch, underscores her fame across the continent and the growing fascination with her image.
A Paris invention called the Long-sighted Stereoscope aims to enhance relief and distance in stereoscopic displays. It uses two objective glasses 40 centimetres apart with lenses correcting the view, letting observers see as if they ranged 40 feet high. A New York druggist notes men use hair dyes more than women.
The piece discusses Charles R. Flint defending combinations as evolution in production. It notes plans to relocate Thaddeus Stevens grave to Greenwood cemetery, and mentions a new public library in Gehkowh with busts of founders. It covers steel rail pricing and Carnegie’s stance, Grinnell College’s new president Frank K. Sanders, and painter Thomas Sidney Cooper born 1808 with continued sight in old age.
US coast and geodetic survey crews completed a 30 year project costing about 500000 dollars to determine earth dimensions with absolute accuracy. They mapped the equator 7926 miles and pole to pole 7809 miles, using triangulation and high altitude stations across Colorado and the West. The center of population and base lines were traced along a 2625.6 mile chalk mark from Cape May to Point Arena.
The Western press notes rising danger around Prince Tuan head of the Boxers and uncle to the present emperor. Po Chun named heir by the emperor, while court turmoil and anti foreign sentiment threaten stability in Pekin amid calls for accountability for the Boxer outrages.
The review hails Richard Mansfield’s portrayal of Henry V as the season’s aromatic climax and most brilliant success. It notes his growth in soldier statesman and orator roles, and praises the delivery of Henry’s tender triumphant speeches with flawless poise, marking Mansfield’s ripening genius in the title role.
In the Victoria era a small opposition minority signals strong government for years. Joseph Chamberlain emerges as the likely prime minister once Salisbury steps down. Rumors place Balfour in the Lords while Chamberlain leads the Commons. Only Labouchere stands out against the South African gold mine seizure in Westminster.
Mrs Joseph Bruce Ismay, a famed New York horsewoman, was thrown from her horse while following the hounds near Southampton Long Island. Although unconscious briefly she remounted and finished the hunt. Thomas H Lane, poet and artist who died in Elizabeth New Jersey aged eighty six, was a friend of Edgar Allan Poe and worked on the Broadway Journal. He painted the Capitol at Washington among his best known works.
The text notes James Carey known as Invincible leaves a son who fought with an Irish regiment against the Boers in South Africa. The son, using an assumed name, is recovering in London from enteric fever after an attack.
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