28 Oct 1898
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1898
Page
1
A column lampoons political virtue and social foibles in Austin Illinois. It jests about credulity and tax scams, chronic grumbling, liquor dependence, and the honesty of politicians. The piece also muses on self knowledge and the preacher’s duties.
A Wyandotte Kansas girl testified that her pastor kissed her and she found the kiss cold and sinful. She exclaimed the kiss was so cold it gave her the chills and branded the act as profoundly wrongful.
A disciplined thinker avoids being swayed by first impressions. He forms opinions without haste and revises them when wiser insight appears, staying focused on the substance rather than pointless refinement.
The text compares national debts and per capita costs, noting Spain’s debt equals one-fifth of wealth with six dollars interest per person while the U S owes less than one one hundred fiftieth of its wealth with fifty three cents interest per person. It laments Spain’s tax burden and criticizes its rulers and colonial policy.
Thinkers attribute the extraordinary naval record to Newport's naval college where officers are educated in war science and to training schools for sailors behind the guns. Critics mocked books learnings but leaders like Sampson Taylor Philip Sicard Mahon Crowninshield praised strategy and marksmanship training as key to late contest success.
A San Francisco Chronicle-quoted anecdote recalls how Dewey’s calm leadership transformed mutinous mood aboard the Colorado off Palermo. Sampson berated sailors for dull drill, Dewey intervened, restored morale, and led the boats out with firm, concise orders.
Benj Finch of Broad Hollow Greene County N Y is 108 born July 4 1790 He can hear well but has been blind three years He is a basket maker with fourteen children two of his four sons fought in the Civil War One son buried recently at eighty six His wife of seventy years died twelve years ago Only his youngest child remains living and his sister is 104.
England has restored nearly all Jameson raid culprits. Col. Frank Rhodes wounded at Omdurman is reinstated as army correspondent for the London Times. Sir Graham Bowers, formerly colonial secretary at the Cape, obtains a lucrative post at Mauritius.
The secretary notes tomorrow marks twenty five years in service. The employer responds with witty expectation of a jubilee dinner and expects an invitation. The exchange highlights long tenure and camaraderie in the office.
The narrator recounts a camera theft near Hungay in Yunnan province. After failed local inquiries the thief is tortured by beetlely methods at the yamen while a crowd watches, until a Chinese mandarin detonates rage upon learning three photographic items remained missing.
In Storecca New York farmer Egerton’s dominant cat Scrapper clashed with a large turtle. The cat stalked the turtle and tried to grab its head but failed initially. After a tense struggle the turtle clamped a hind foot, and Scrapper finally carried away the turtle’s head as a trophy.
A magistrate sentences a thief to brutal floggings while a foreign observer notes the extended punishment. Separately at Storkton, Warwickshire, workers uncover a near flawless ichthyosaurus fossil, 19 feet 5 inches long, likely the finest of the century and valued around 5000 dollars.
The article explains Siamese debt law allowing creditors to seize debtors after three months of arrears and compel work to repay. If a debtor flees, his father wife or children may be held in slavery until the debt is canceled.
A fragmented poem celebrates memory feats and natural abundance across the west. It gushes over volcanic power, Central American life, gold mining, and ranch landscapes, praising sunlight streams, fruitful valleys, and peaceful homes as echoes of nature’s wealth.
The article surveys extraordinary memorizers from Scaliger Seneca and Leyden to Dryden Pope and a London parish memory feat. It also cites Thomson planners and a clergyman’s memory of burial records, concluding withDr Moffatt’s Africa church scene where a savage repeats a sermon word for word.
A McClure's Magazine writer presents a full popular account of Krakatoa's 1883 eruption on a remote Sunda Strait island. Details include its uninhabited peak, two centuries of quiescence, August 27 explosive climax, world heard distance, vast global shock waves, and a precise death toll near 36,380.
Professor Milne explains atmospheric waves circled the globe twice with rapid self registering barometers. One circuit took thirty six hours, leaving dust that colored sunsets for years. He adds a sobering note that future eruptions in America and Europe may produce similar effects.
An Upper Geyser Basin flower lover builds a rough wood structure with a glass roof facing east. Heat from a geyser’s ground vent warms raised beds, producing lettuce in two days and cucumber vines up to 35 feet in sixty days. Watering needs are minimal due to humid air and steam condensation.
A meteorite described as half the size of St Pauls Cathedral reportedly fell near Port Alfred South Africa creating a 50 foot deep 120 by 60 foot crater. The piece likely solid iron and the article discusses the possibility of much larger rocks traveling in space and potential Earth impacts.
A Providence Journal writer recalls a talk with a wealthy Central American coffee planter. He describes a remote estate twenty miles from town reached by bridle path where coffee and supplies move by pack mule. The planter dismisses road quality and mail improvements as unnecessary.
The article notes Finns avoid handshakes preferring a firm grip to pump their digits and publicly display affection toward wives while distant from parents. It observes no shutters, beds facing windows, and extreme daylight in summer contrasted with long, harsh winters. The north sees sun vanish December to January, winters lasting eight to nine months yet cold is offset by dry, crisp air.
The obituary details Colonel Richard Malcolm Johnston born March 8 1822 in Hancock County Georgia and died in Maryland General Hospital Baltimore. A famed describer of antebellum negro character he authored Dukesborough Tales under Philemon Perch and other works including Mr Neelus Peeler’s Conditions Studies Life of Alexander Stephens and History of English Literature.
A traveler recounts Tartary natives using trained golden eagles to hunt deer. An eagle, released from its shackles, circles high then dives, catching a deer with talons and beak before the keeper dispatches the animal.
The wartime flag trade boomed as manufacturers worked flat out to meet demand. A Boston store official recalled a day when one factory produced twelve miles of hunting flag fabric and another place received an order for 100000 dozen flags. A Boston house sold 15000 dozen in a day, with large orders from the South. Current sales focus on small silk flags and silk patriot ic streamers for interior decor.
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