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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1897
Page
8
Night attacks on British army posts in India prompt a suggestion to equip exposed camps with powerful electric search-lights like warships. Bright beams could deter attacks and protect sentries and pickets from assassins said to stalk them in darkness.
A reflection warns that doing the right thing at the wrong time can cause harm, noting past errors when actions were timely but misapplied. Emphasizes careful judgment, restraint, and guarding against haste.
A promotional ad promises one thousand dollars in gold coin given away by the Sterling Body Company to Cascarets Candy Cathartics fans and readers. The copy touts Sterling as honest, liberal offers, and Cascarets as the best medicine, urging readers to act on the big ad in this issue.
Fragmentary excerpt cites the New York Herald on women in long distance contests. It notes rising passion for medals and centuries with some aiming for double centuries. It warns such overtaxing exertion can exhaust even strong women.
Advertises Grain-O as a coffee substitute safe for children and adults, claiming the taste of mocha or java with pure grain ingredients. Promotes price at 25 cents per package and emphasizes suitability for all, sold by grocers.
A New Jersey man has started an ostrich farm after receiving a consignment of California birds. He built a large steam heated enclosure to protect them through winter and believes the stock will thrive in the local climate.
One hundred dollar reward offer for catarrh cure. F J Cheney & Co of Toledo endorse the firm’s honor and ability to meet obligations. West Truax and Walding Kinnan Marvin listed as wholesale druggists in Toledo. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials sent free, price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Hall's Family Pills promoted as the best.
A brief note on chimneys showing theory versus practice. Two chimneys built identically by skilled labor may perform differently with one drawing well and the other smoking like a pipe. Excerpt reflects common proverb about construction reliability.
Yale seniors led a strange parade in New Haven after a freshman win in two of three athletic events. A red white and blue suited Brother Jonathan marched with a blond ballet girl and a negro clown. A red faced Bismarck with a ministerial man, an officious policeman with a pretty girl, and wild West Indians added to the surreal tableau.
A Chicago Times Herald visit describes Loring Co Medical Department now occupying the fourth floor of the Fairbank building at 56 62 Wabash. It touts itself as the strongest reliable health facility in the United States with extensive equipment. Free consultation via mail and symptom blanks issued for men women skin catarrh and other diseases.
The passage states typical growth milestones for children by ages four to twelve, including height and weight expectations. It notes growth is irregular, with possible rapid gains of two inches in two months but slower progress afterward, and that up to age ten or twelve only about an inch may be gained in the following ten months.
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad markets the Rocky Mountain scenic routes through Colorado Utah and New Mexico for tourists and transcontinental travelers. It offers double daily service from Denver to San Francisco with through Pullman sleepers and tourists cars and notes Cripple Creek gold camp access and Ogden Gateway routes via Utah Idaho Montana Oregon and Washington.
Carrie L. Jackson of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, was granted a divorce from Edward Jackson after alleging he threw silver dollars at her while intoxicated. The decree was issued today, with Mrs. Jackson stating she could tolerate the money but not the drunken behavior.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway prints farm scenes from South Dakota in an eight page illustrated circular distribution free to home seekers. Send address to H F Hunter immigration agent 201 Dearborn Chicago or W E Powell 410 Old Colony Building Chicago Illinois for copies.
A Chicago Tribune piece reviews a cameral anomaly in royal matchmaking. It traces how princes select brides from healthy, robust princesses across Europe, detailing examples from Denmark, Naples, Montenegrin line, Sweden, Orléans, Belgium, and Coburg connections, with vivid portraits of princesses like Ingeborg and Dorothea and notes on dynastic marriages and health ideals.
Farmers discuss corn as an alternative fuel with claims it is cheaper and hotter than coal. Levi Gardiner cites ten acres producing winter fuel and feed for two horses and a cow, while J C Beach recalls trading wood for corn, noting corn burns cleaner and hotter but warns about stove wear and rats. John Anderson adds that if coal is costly, corn use could lower coal prices and suit farmers’ feeding and fueling needs.
A young Indianapolis widow recently hosted a dinner with lavish flower decorations. Guests noted the profusion of blooms on mantels and the table. One guest teased that her father spread the flowers tonight, and she replied she will relocate them to Crow Hill tomorrow.
A historical column details Princess Alix forced into Orthodox faith and marriage by the dying Czar, Queen Wilhelmina resisting Prince Bernard, and Sweden Denmark royal unions. It notes Princess Ingeborg and Prince Charles Sweden aged 86, Maria and Ferdinand de Bourbon of Calabria, and Princess Victoria of Wales as yet unmarried, all amid broader royal marriage curiosities.
The president created a useful charity called the Felix Fanre Wardrobe to supply respectable clothing to paupers leaving Nan Terre’s municipal house who lost their garments and faced rejection by employers. Faure led with 1,000 francs, inspiring many others to contribute to help employable poor obtain proper attire.
A St Louis widow before death urged her husband to care for a young female cousin. He fulfilled this by marrying her last week. The note adds a remark on Spanish theater practices not issuing programs.
Two venerable clergymen traveling in an elevated train in Chicago admired a boy with an angelic face across from him. They wondered about purity in the next world. The boy interrupted, saying if he stole a pistol he would shoot the two old crows across the aisle.
A collage of humorous snippets from Detroit Washington Star Boston Transcript and New York Journal references. Witty lines about pocketed women, a poor man pleading before Baron Rapineau, and the punchy remark about fortune knocking at every door ending with a depot gold brick image.
A jumble of 19th century ads and quips promotes free medical cures and elixirs with warnings of no C O D fraud and no medical connection. It features testimonials, snippets about cough cures, cold remedies, sleep aids, and a boastful cycler line, ending with a literary quip on bliss from Quarles.
In a testimonial Mrs B A Lombard of Westdale Massachusetts credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing a fibroid tumor in her womb after doctors failed to help Her monthly flow resolved and a follow up exam found the tumor passed away and the dull ache gone
In Chicago in 1897 readers are urged to answer advertisements by referencing this paper Hindly asks respondents to cite the periodical to ensure proper credit and traceability, a common practice for classified notices and business inquiries of the era.
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