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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1900
Page
8
Low rate round trip excursions to western southwestern and southeastern points at half rates plus two dollars. Tickets go on sale September 4 and 18 October 2 and 16 November 6 and 20 and December 4 and 18, 1900. For full information contact agents or H. C. Townsend G P T Agent St Louis Missouri.
Mrs. Dayton aged 85 plans a trip to Auburn to visit her son. She says travel is no trouble and compares rail journeys to sitting in a parlor, noting careful service on the New York Central line. She recalls telling the Albany door attendant her destination and receiving courteous help on trains.
The sultan’s annual expenses are estimated at 36 million dollars with 7.5 million for women’s clothing and 400 thousand for his own wardrobe. About 7.5 million funds gifts and 5 million for pocket money plus 5 million for the table. Some 1,500 palace residents contribute to the civil list costs, making the total seem credible.
Judges at the Paris Exposition award the Walter Baker & Co Ltd of Dorchester Massachusetts a gold medal for their cocoa and chocolate preparations. The firm, already the world’s largest cocoa and chocolate maker, has received top awards at European and American expositions, marking a third Paris Exposition honor.
A 54 foot schooner rigged bathing boat with eight dressing rooms and salt water facilities is built for W C Whitney. It features showers sprays and provisions to stay at sea without ashore days. The vessel cost 25,000.
The Peabody Medical Institute at No. 4 Bul- Onch St in Boston is highlighted as a lasting institution named for the late George Peabody. Over 80 years it has gained wide recognition, with medical publications read widely and an offer of a free men only pamphlet titled Know Thyself, mailed sealed for 6 cents postage.
Mitsuhiro Harada of Japan, studying the cotton industry, tells the New Orleans Times-Democrat that Lafcadio Hearn, now professor of English literature at Kobe University, is the best-liked American scholar in Japan.
Letters from Miss Epona Frederick and Miss Eona Freeprin cx of Troy Ohio praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for kidney and back issues and prolonged illness. Mrs Pinkham’s remedy is cited as the sole effective treatment after doctors failed. Mary BarnesHiness of Windsor Pa also endorses the medicine for irregular and painful menses and leucorrhea.
The article argues Pueblo women hold broad property rights and dominate household matters. Men marry into the wife’s gens, face social constraints, and risk expulsion if misbehaving, while women control crops after harvest and regulate barter at trading posts with decisive influence.
Detroit lawyer recalls George R. Wilmot who operated from Windsor Ontario sending letters to about 1000 U S businessmen with fake mining stock schemes. Victims paid $15 express charges for worthless certificates, while stock was never delivered. Wilmot fled to Vera Cruz before authorities could act.
The late summer heat drives thousands to Colorado mountain resorts via Missouri Pacific and Denver & Rio Grande routes. Scenic travel along Royal Gorge and canyons offers cool air, healthful rest, and low tourist rates. Railroads promote convenience and comfort for a broad eastern-to-western audience seeking recreation and fresh energy.
The article argues that foreign missionaries in China aggravate anti foreign sentiment by failing to understand Chinese culture. It criticizes their methods as narrow minded and disrespectful, urges gradual cultural accommodation, and warns that harsh proselytizing could provoke backlash.
A thunderstorm near Consett in North Durham district struck a pasture and carved a trench three feet to three feet six inches deep and six inches to seven inches wide, running about twelve feet across. Clay was scattered up to twenty yards away and turf torn as if cut by a sharp implement. A six by nine inch grass sod lay on the opposite side of the fence in another field.
Emperor William spoke to Kiel marines at the garrison church unveiling a Christ figure. He urged attention to dangers of their occupation and its tendency to lead to reliance on God. He presented the memorial as a continual reminder of the higher life.
In Japan every able bodied man is a soldier and children learn arms. Military drill is standard in schools across the empire with cadet like uniforms. Instructors are regular army officers and veterans of the war with China and the Satsuma rebellion of 1877. This fosters a hero worship mindset among youth.
Statistics show children playing with matches caused 91 fires. Cigars and cigarettes 912, electrical wires and lights 750, boilers and engines 287, incendiarism 6,744, lightning 2,760, spontaneous combustion 1,285, six attributed to sun. Thirteen thousand one hundred twenty seven fires remained undiscovered.
The General Passenger Department of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad issued two free booklets. One covers hunting and fishing on the St Francis river in northeastern Arkansas with game and wildlife notes. The other describes Chicago to Nashville points of interest and regional legends across Quinnois Indiana and Tennessee. Copies available by mailing addresses to C L Stone in Chicago.
In Topeka Kansas a banker turned healer Dr W W Gavitt offers a dry powder combination of rare herbs roots and barks promising cures for kidney liver and stomach troubles. He says results exceed those of doctors and offers a twenty five day trial upon receipt of a two cent stamp for postage.
A doctor visits for Mme Meissonier's lap dog mistaking it for the artist. He treats the dog and declines payment for veterinary work. The wife insists, jokingly, on a charge, while Meissonier is asked to donate paint for his hinges. The painter's fee is implied to be more valuable.
Three farms offered by North Dakota Land and Loan Co in Rugby Pierce County. No 101 is 600 acres with 350 cultivated and 80 fenced pasture near market and county seat, with multiple outbuildings. No 102 is 200 acres near county seat with 115 cultivated and 30 meadow. No 103 is 160 acres adjoining city limits with tillable black loam soil. Terms include cash down and time on balance. Address Rugby ND.
Special one night trips from Chicago to Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo via the Great Rock Island Route depart August 21 September 4 and 18 at 445 p m Excursion tickets to Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Glenwood Springs Salt Lake City and Ogden Utah priced at one regular fare plus two dollars round trip Return limit October 31 1900 Tickets valid on regular trains Berth reservations and the book Colorado the Magnificent are free upon request to John Sebastian G P A Chicago
Grant Duff's diary recounts a breakfast with Ol. Kay Frederic Harrison and others where Garfield quoted Emerson's Williamstown lecture as the spark of his intellectual life. Garfield recalled the hill surrounding Williamstown blazing in his mind and the line mankind is as lazy as it dares to be lingering after the talk.
No matter what ails you headache to cancer you will never get well until your bowels are put right. Cascar ets help nature cure you without a gripe or pain produce easy natural movements cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. Cascar ets Candy Cathartic the genuine put up in metal boxes every tablet has C C C stamped on it. Be ware of imitations.
Moscow's massive hospital facility houses 7000 beds and serves about 15000 patients yearly. It employs 96 physicians and 900 nurses, underscoring its major role in regional health care.
In Massachusetts minister salaries for Congregational churches vary from 300 to 8000 dollars yearly. The most common amount is 800 dollars, and over half of the clergymen earn less than 1000 dollars annually.
An advertisement offers the Wanted Liniment claiming it is the most powerful healing liniment in the world. It seeks a single local representative and asks readers to send 2 cents for information or 10 cents for a trial sample, with mailing address in Detroit Michigan.
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