08 Sep 1899
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1899
Page
1
The Qak Park Vindicator lists miscellaneous aphorisms and trivia from a Michigan community, including quips on cynicism and defense spending. It notes St. Joseph’s public marriage license day and reports George Pullman estate taxes paid to Cook County, with other delinquent taxes outstanding.
Fifteen Chicago men ruined by gold hunting in the Klondike are said to be stranded in Seattle while others die from hunger or drown pursuing gold. The piece notes the high risk and limited profits of gold prospecting and compares costs of transportation provisions and mining gear. It also references Spain’s wheat crop, sugar imports, and a record steel contract between Pressed Steel Car and Carnegie Steel, highlighting the era’s booming iron and steel industry and the growth of pig iron consumption.
An essay argues universities should teach Malay alongside modern languages, noting its large native speaking base of over forty million, its almost grammarless structure, unique Arabic script origin, and practical ease of learning despite varied alphabets. It cites Professor St Clyde Ford praising its expressiveness and suggests English letters could be used in textbooks for ease. It asks which university will pioneer this field.
Four years ago Abram Wheeler and his wife left Rochester for Tucson to start a harness shop. She learned the trade while helping him and later ran the shop alone when he toured copper mines. She patented harness parts and sold one patent for 1200 dollars while tending two infant children in a cage-like area of the shop.
The piece highlights New Mexico as a prime sheep and goat feeding region with dry air and varied temperatures from snow clad mountains to warm plains. It notes 4,000,000 sheep on the ranges, a high lamb yield of 95 percent last year, and a wool clip of 15,000,000 pounds held by ranchers awaiting better prices.
The Atlanta Constitution notes the author announces the second edition of a book titled Flow. The first edition printed twenty five copies and the second edition promises fifty copies, with the author speaking in a whispered tone.
Miss Branscombe seeks legal advice from Mr. Fort on altering her uncle’s will while clinging to hope of inheriting Forest Lea. The missing will and a suspicious maid hint at a secret tied to her cousin and a coded bag causing tension during a fragile courtship.
Mr. Fort confronts Miss Branscombe after discovering a Gladstone bag swapped for her own at Morton Junction. He urges restoration of the bag while noting their prior meeting and the absent will, as Colonel Branscombe’s funeral looms.
A Bath commemorative tablet marks the Lansdown crescent site once home to William Beckford a famed dilettante author of Vathek. His vast wealth built Fonthill House and a hilltop tower. after losses he died in Bath and his tomb now overlooks the city from the Lansdown heights. The tower has been repaired restoring views from the summit at 950 feet.
A fragment from the Minneapolis Journal humorously recalls biblical youths Shem Ham and Noah and playful conduct. The verse tone imagines them pitching copper coins and playing games while mothers ban swimming in the Jordan.
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