10 Sep 1897
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1897
Page
1
The Oak Park Vindicator prints a miscellany of topics from tongue in cheek notes on bread and beef prices to a digression on lynching and caste in the South. It quotes Bishop Vincent on language, contemplates New York’s proposed steel tower, and sketches a French tobacco scare and Uganda mission progress.
A Western state strike story highlights workers who refuse to quit against a backdrop of harsh conditions. They credit a generous employer and his family for fair treatment, illustrating a belief that personal acts of aid can spark social improvement. A displaced New York Children’s Aid Society boy rises to govern a vast Alaska territory.
A Detroit Free Press tale quotes a matron and neighbor joking about mischief by boys on Cass Avenue. They recall cake thefts and larder raids leading to a rough lesson when a prank collapses a hollow cake and ends with a rawhide resolution.
Capt H J Smith of the United States revenue coast service recounts pearl hunting from Ceylon to Dry Tortugas. Pearls and shells come from the Preamptee Gambier and Tribnal groups, with Macassar white edged shells worth 800 a ton. Major fisheries lie near Crylon, Persian Gulf, Java and Sumatra. Australian shores near Shank's Bay and Roebuck Bay yield large shells. Pearls form around irritants within the shell, and China traders ship pearl meat in cans to San Francisco. Queen Margaret Tudor reportedly dreamt pearls foretold bloodshed at Flodden Field.
Napoleon declared 40 Siir Colin Campbell, exiled on the Isle of Hiba, admired Milton's Paradise Lost. He claimed he borrowed the idea of battle from the sixth book where Satan deploys artillery against Michael and the heavenly host, noting the ominous shadows and hidden fraud.
One of Portland’s oldest women public school teachers intends to seek a Klondike fortune. A California fortyliner board clerk warns her to carry candy cigars and nuts to a camp rather than attempt other earnings or diving. He cites a prior case where a woman with such cargo cleared about $1,000 in two days.
The article states tobacco is native to the western hemisphere yet never grows wild. It credits the first cultivators to Virginia tribes the Carolinians and those in the southern Appalachian area.
A Boston merchant refuses to honor a check signed by Mrs. Cleveland to preserve her autograph, viewing gallantry over thrift as the stronger virtue.
A German peasant girl near Kufs named Barbara Roeschlau shows electrical powers, moving heavy objects without trance and distressing herself as investigators compare her to the famed Eusapia Paladino. Berlin tests may follow to solve the mystery.
The Chesapeake, captured by Shannon in the War of 1812, was sent to Halifax and Southampton and broken up in 1820. John Prior used the frigate’s great deck timbers to build a new mill in Wickham, Hampshire, leaving many shot-filled pieces intact as beams and uprights. A life of Captain Broke notes the mill’s exterior hid a ship’s past beneath its wooden walls.
The New York University dormitory, opened last Thanksgiving, rises on a high western point beside the campus. Chancellor MacCracken praises Miss Helen Miller Gould for the building a memory to her parents, Jay and Helen Gould. The design mirrors Harvard and Yale plans and houses 112 students in 48 studies and 64 bedrooms with eight baths and ample storage, aiming for comfortable double occupancy where needed.
A kitchen scene describes Barbara and a companion as a knife flies forth striking the girl’s face, followed by clattering metal and a head injury to Mrs Hoffmann, with later episodes of flying objects and a mysterious electrical force linked to Barbara. Doctors suspect animal electricity and note occurrences vanish when the girl visits other homes.
The devoted life is too embarrassing and unconventional yet some souls pursue true devotion to the good of others, as noted by Rev W.8 Key of Catholic Borton.
In Atlanta, two hundred women and girls at the bag and cotton mills struck over the hiring of Black workers, led by Mrs. Ella Brooks. Four hundred men walked out in sympathy, closing the factory briefly as unions aid the strikers vow to hold out, amid warnings of potential unrest.
An old Southern tale recalls a pig named Shaver loved by Jack and a fateful moment under a big weed. The quad rutabaga animal carries a crown of fault and a heavy memory as the boy mourns the loss of his pet and the child’s fragile heart. The narrator reflects on the boy Hugh Alphonsus Netmore and the hidden grave beneath the weed.
A reader describes flying fishes and similar wingless fliers observed in Southern California. Fins act as sails guiding its glide, while other species in the Gulf of Mexico and South Pacific exhibit airbound leaps and even dangerous impacts. The Challenger voyage noted several encounters with airborne fishes near shipboard observers.
The text surveys long distance movements by animals such as springbok, American bison, musk ox, wild horses, and steppes antelopes. It notes their broad front marches that allow equal browsing access, with birds like guinea fowls and European wild geese described as persistent walkers moving in orderly lines or columns.
The passage describes historical routes and methods of moving animals and birds by land and water. It notes geese traveling to ships at Antwerp and the concept of animals transporting themselves to their voyages. It explains feeding habits, fat reserves, and the relatively passive travel of fish during migrations.
Gardener Mr. Masterson notes Weston House in Shipston on Stour hosts a famed Uvedale's St. Germain pear tree. The tree bears large fruits weighing up to 1.5 pounds, croppings heavy per year, with six foot trunk circumference and roots near carriage drive and stable drains. It has won many first prizes including at Crystal Palace in 1894 and 1895.
Saturday Review debates Lord Playfair critique of medieval sanitation. It recalls Elizabeth I limiting London growth, contrasts mortality rates, praises Moses for hygiene norms, notes Roman cleanliness, laments a thousand-year bath drought, and questions materialist views on the soul amid medieval cathedral building and chivalry.
The text explains how Greeks and Romans formed tribunals to hear suicide requests. If approved, the applicant could end life under court authority, sometimes with hemlock. Denied cases led to illegal acts and punishment, with Romans confiscating the deceased’s property and Greeks dishonoring the memory.
Eskimo people depend on the sea for food and clothing yet cannot swim. The water in their region stays at or below freezing, reducing drowning risk. They prevent leaks by tightly covering boats around the fisher man.
Twiller says editors kept a manuscript eight months, longer than before, as he remains hopeful about future acceptance. He previously saw drafts returned after shorter delays, indicating improving prospects.
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