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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1897
Page
2
A Cicero citizen who never ordered the Staats Zeitung was billed after it was regularly left at his home. He refused to pay, but the publisher Hessing sued and won $50 for ten years of subscription under implied contract law common to many jurisdictions.
A collection of brief notes on civic improvements in Cicero and Chicago, rail, naval messaging, and civil service. Mentioned are the Suburban electric streetcar extension near Lake Street, New York population at 2,000,016, ongoing coal strike talks, and politics in Greater New York with Seth Low and Sydney Strong. Also notes on Ireland famine, Mr. Geo B Burns advertisement, and English postal services.
The article expresses hopes that benefits of the British post office such as savings banks and parcel post will soon be extended to the United States by Congress, praising postal services and telegraphy as a model for American reforms.
Clarke, a young man, jumped from the 180 foot Halsted Street lift bridge in Chicago into the river water and sank without injury. Observers note water contact alone could kill an ordinary person, highlighting the remarkable incident.
The Cicero public schools began the new year on Monday September 6 with a brief session for organization. On Saturday September 4 principals were at their offices at 9 o clock to examine pupils transferring from other schools and assign them places.
Prosecution voices damning statements against Levi Leutgert for wife murder and alleged corpse disposal by chemicals in aov at. The case draws intense nationwide attention as women press for proof of guilt. Aldermen Rector and McCarthy lead a committee of property owners urging West Chicago Street Railway to fair rates within city limits. action postponed until Mr. Yerkes returns. The owners plan a meeting tomorrow night at Forty third avenue and Madison Street.
The Harlem and Batavia Line in Cicero is now electrified and connected along Fifty Second Avenue with the Lake Street elevated. Patrons fear higher fares under Suburban Electric Railroad Company ownership, though some suburban service will continue with occasional Chicago-bound trains daily.
The Cfeero town board met with full attendance to discuss burying electric feed wires and a resolution requiring town permits for railroad work. A delegation from Thifty-second street sought relief from the trolley line proximity, with a plan to remove tracks mid street by consent of property owners and city authorities.
The writer ridicules a notice in the Vindicator about suspending Sunday services for Rev Dr Tiulbert. He questions honoring the dead by stopping worship and argues it undermines reverence due to the Infinite. He calls the action an example of secular atrophy in the age.
A collection of antiquarian facts and notes including the first envelope in British Museum possession the phonograph date 1877 and copper value in ancient times. It mentions Schenectady locomotive works order from Japan and a Leipsiger machine producing 650 covers per hour operated by girls.
A Tiskilwa letter lauds Dr King’s New Discovery as a guaranteed cure for coughs colds and consumption. The article claims extensive trial with many remedies failed and offers free trial bottles at Austin and Oak Park stores.
Friends of the late Rev. Palmer S. Hulbert confront deacons and trustees over a circular issued after his death. They seek unconditional resignations of officials named in the circular and threaten to leave if not. A Friday meeting of the Oak Park First Congregational Church Men’s Club aims to amend church articles to ease the split while planning a broader election overhaul.
The August regular meeting in the Village hall saw Lades from the Woman's Club request action to curb cigarette sales to minors. referred to the Judiciary Committee. Rebates were approved for property owners on cedar block pavement along St Charles Avenue. A September 1 special meeting discussed plans for a new village hall with architect H R Schoet, with £85 already paid and work to proceed if arrangements pass.
Clyde trustee A B Whitney says district turmoil over Superintendent G C Spencer's tenure will go to court for final settlement. Board meetings since July have disputed quorum as tensions rise between Cicero and Berwyn areas over salary, resignations, and a coal deal.
Francis Hinks Sullivan, a precocious ten year old, negotiates a dog trade with his friend Jimmie. After buying Foxy for twelve cents the boy trims the dog’s tail without parental approval. When the tailless dog is returned, Jimmie’s mother frees him from the sale and pays back twelve cents, completing a second bargain for ten cents.
Plans to suit tenant and easy terms on East and Seaville avenues first block south of C N WeR R&R. Long term leases offered. THOSH GALE Room 702 4 La Salle Street Chicago.
The Oak Park club members and guests attended a lawn party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E Wilder on Elmhurst grounds. About 120 traveled by six horse coaches, others by train bike and carriage, with lanterns and moonlight enhancing the event.
Anticipation of club merger fills Oak Park with eager applicants as by laws cap membership. Applicants may wait through much of the fall season if consolidation proceeds. Attendance improves as former vacationers return and interest in the upcoming social season rises.
The article recounts King Humbert of Italy as a famed hunter famed for grand Piedmontese hunts and a Cuneo welcome with a joke about a stronger communal wine. It also notes ex premier Crispi’s superstition with a coral amulet and a Parliament clash where he flaunted it to defy rival Cavalotti, ending in laughter.
The Chinese criminal code prescribes beheading for parricide including design to kill parents or ancestors even if no murder occurs, and death by slow slicing for actual murder with related parties also punished. Further, murder with intent to mangling or magical use leads to execution and household banishment, with informants rewarded. Venomous animals or poisonous drugs for murder bring beheading, confiscation, and family banishment.
McVickers Theatre launches Thomas W. Keene in a second and final Chicago week. The renowned tragedian, praised for a wide repertoire including Othello and Julius Caesar, headlines with Charles B. Hanford as leading man. Special matinee events and family-friendly programming follow, with themes featuring The Land of the Living after The Wolves of New York.
Second week cap holds firm as Captain Charles King’s Fort Frayne and the Schiller Theater company earn critical praise. The Chicago stock company aims to offer American plays by American authors with accessible pricing and a Wednesday matinee.
Hayman and Davis present a star studded lineup at the Columbia Theater in Chicago for 1897 98. Lilian Russell Della Fox and Jefferson DeAngelis star in The Wedding Day. Klaw and Erlanger One Round of Pleasure and Lederer's Casino show The Whirl of the Town. Hopper appears in El Capitan In Town features Marie Studholme. Julia Marlowe debuts as lead in Bonnie Prince Charles and other favorites follow. The current attraction Jack and the Beanstalk is a hit with critics.
Olympic stage presents a week long engagement beginning Monday featuring Fred Hallen and Molly Fuller in A Husbands Revenge a satire on modern mannish women. Josephine Sabel and a cast including Baggesons Smith and Cook Bindley Johnson Davenport Loreta Lewis Earnest Fuller Colden Goldsmith sisters Robbins Montgomery Saunders Akimoto Japs Brothers Lorbey Moorman and Louw Rose provide specialties. The program promises exceptional appeal.
Next week features Richard Harlow known from 1492 fame and Queen Isabelle impersonations, Polk and Collins, Walter Ellis the bird whistler, Kranchelli and Lewis in operetta duet, J Siell the basso with new songs, and the American Biograph with Queen’s Jubilee pictures plus four other large acts.
The next attraction begins Sunday matinee Sept 12 with Fred Rider’s spectacular production The White Elephant Extravaganza Con. Twenty ladies with elaborate scenery and electric effects join artists to stage the Burletta The Title Chaser and the burlesque Seeing the Elephant. Savoy theater nearly completed and opening soon.
The bill at Hopkins' for next week includes Staley and Berbeck the original musical blacksmiths and William Windom the famed minstrel tenor with songs like The Fatal Wedding. Also on the program are Dawsons eccentric skating novelties La Belle Carmen Edna Collins the wire performer Carlisle Sisters Hopkins' Ladies Orchestra and more entertainers. A revival of Bartley Campbell's The Galley Slave will close the program after several postponements.
The Wolves of New theater attraction scheduled for the Alhambra limits a new program at the venue.
Felix Morris debuts at the Haymarket next Monday afternoon with A Game of Cards, supported by Howe Wall and Waters and a strong company. Notable acts include Olsch and Looney, Margaret Webb, Conwell and O’Day, Annie Ingham, Fountain City Four, Creage, Ada Hulmes, the Denvers, Nate LeRoy, Manley and Rose, Johnny Williams, and Artie Hall.
The Ferris Wheel at Ferris Wheel Park in Chicago enters its sixteenth week with an excellent vaudeville program for Simday opening. Summer evenings draw crowds as rides on the big wheel mix with music and variety acts. The first ten cent Saturday matinees for schoolchildren begin this week and run each Saturday until season's end. The coming bill features Arthur and Jennie Dunn Howard and Johnstone John and Nellie McCarthy John Weld Scenorant Herbert and Sanersbes The Karls and more.
The item lists multiple theatrical moves and ambitions. Blanche Walsh and Maxine Elliott to perform Katherine the Shrew. Q Seabrooke to start at Detroit Opera House. Sadie Martinez joins A Stranger in New York. Stirling and Powles debut Bo Peep in September at Chauncey Depew's Peekskill theater. Anna Held to return to America in October with La Poupée. Charles Coghlan seeking new plays. Nina Crox rumored to avoid divorce. Marie Wainwright and Minnie Madden Fiske eye vaudeville and new American work respectively. George Lederer to trial new piece on Avenue A. industry notes on salaries and touring practices.
Isabel A. Mallon in Ladies' Home Journal reports on winter hat styles. Henry of Navarre symbolism appears in plumes and feathers, with hats showcasing fur trims like sable and chinchilla, rich velvets and silks, and bright color accents. Purple remains dominant with deep red, royal blue, silver gray, black and white favored. buckles and pins add decorative brilliance to flowers and plumes.
Georges, the brave coachman who helped save lives at the Bazar de la Charite blaze in Paris, was decorated with the Legion of Honor and offered a government post. He also received $20,000 from the family of his mistress he saved by carrying her from the burning building.
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