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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1895
Page
3
A young lodger moves into Mrs Sparrow’s cozy flat and falls for a charming son Aubry Spar row. He lures him into a life insurance fraud scheme with mafia style promises. Detectives expose Aubry as Holcomb a notorious insurance swindler and killer.
A Nashua New Hampshire School Board tried to push out a teacher for incompetence while avoiding jeopardizing her future prospects. The board elected her to resign immediately, she quit but later rescinded and asked to be relieved of certain duties, which the board refused, leading to an estoppel situation.
A discussion on the value of sincere, unpremeditated praise and its social effect. The piece notes two women running for the state legislature in Salt Lake City: Lillian Pardee, a college instructor and club woman, and Emmeline B. Wells, editor of a women's paper.
In Colorado a Salvation Army female cavalry brigade tours mining towns to provide religious instruction and aid to isolated settlements. Led by Capt Blanche B Cox and officers including Capt Altice M Dunton and Lieut Clara M Dunton, the group travels by wagon and mule, plans holiness meetings, jail and hospital visits, and aims to save souls amid mining camps and rough crowds.
A portrait of Mrs Potter as a rising actress who conquers early career challenges. The article covers her method of blending personal temperament with study to embody Marie Antoinette in Le Collier de la Reine and notes her prior success in Charlotte Corday and a world tour. Kerr’s interview highlights artistic conviction and reliance on spontaneity.
The article argues women continue to wear veils for practicality and fashion. It notes plain nets in various colors are preferred over coarser meshes, rejects Brussels veil revivals, and provides guidance on veil tones by hair and skin color. Dark hair with bright coloring suits dotted small meshes. pale skin favors large meshed black or navy veils. gray veils are ill-suited for pale or sallow complexions.
George Wohlstadt an importer and bird dealer in New York City faces a breach of promise suit from Miss Etta Wagner of the London Gaiety Girls company now in the west. She seeks 20000 damages claiming distress and damage from his refusal to marry her after receiving a 350000 legacy from his German-born father.
A Cincinnati story recalls Ed Taylor beating Sam Tyrrell in a snow birds shoot, using No 8 shot to counter wind. Tyrrell, wealthy but unpopular, failed after 30 shots while Taylor posted a straight score, proving wind-aware strategy in a cold-outskirts duel.
A sharp buyer and a seedy seller clash over baking powder in a terse scene from Indianapolis journalism. The improver questions the room and the ceiling as a reason, while the peddler exits with a wary claim about bread rising in a low kitchen.
Plana drawn for two uptown private residences on the West Side of New York each to have a roof garden. The architect says the high ground offers the coolest summer overlook with breakfast or dinner served there. From the roof one may view Riverside Park and the Jersey shore across the river.
A historic dispatch used Scott's cable code to report a ship destroyed by fire with the crew saved by boats and all hands saved to inform wives and sweethearts. The three coded words conveyed a dramatic maritime incident and rescue.
A quotable fragment shows a street scene with tangled slang and slurred speech. The Richmond Dispatch excerpt presents perplexing dialogue about a skull injury and a defiant refusal to speak further.
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