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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1898
Page
3
Shell faces isolation at the Wilderness while family plans a moor retreat. Robert Champley unexpectedly arrives, challenging her nerves as she guards her home, weighs independence, and resists lingering social pressures.
A two day October festival in Philadelphia will feature President McKinley and Cabinet members among a vast procession from Delaware to Penn’s Grant Mound site. Indian guests arrive Oct 25 with a naval parade and Independence Hall dedication followed by a civic celebration, banquet, and fireworks.
A week passes as Shell tires of isolation. The empty rooms grow hateful and the once familiar grounds feel strange. She fears interruptions to her lonely musings and senses a changing world beyond.
Lippincott's Magazine cites General Cook Edward Ellis on Apache endurance with long mountain treks and rapid pursuits. It details Chiricahua feats by Scott's Troop 10, including a two hour coyote chase and a nine mile deer capture. The piece also references Pima horse recovery and old-timer lore of long daily Indian runs. A humorous exchange over a letter shows domestic wit.
A quoted exchange imagines Li Hung Chang asking about China’s partition and the emperor replying in a distracted tone that selling the Great Wall to a contractor would suffice to keep foreigners out, likening it to a lath and plaster partition.
An old ad promotes No To Bac as a cure to quit tobacco with promises of stronger vigor and nerve. It urges readers to send 5c or 8L for a booklet and samples from Sterling Remedy Co in Chicago or New York.
The excerpt features a dialogue where one character asks if the beloved is the first love, and the other replies affirmatively, hoping it may not be the last, reflecting a tender, light tone from London Punch.
An OCR fragment features an ad from Muco-Solvent Company Chicago promising a free book to cure throat troubles including croup and diphtheria. A quip about a self-made husband follows, noting a woman’s seldom objection to such a spouse unless he insists on her self-made dresses.
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