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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1901
Page
5
Guaranteed first mortgages for sale in amounts from 500 to 2500 dollars at 6 percent interest. Principal and interest guaranteed and payable in gold coin by the Harlem Savings Bank located at 105 Madison Street, Harlem, Illinois.
Money to loan on real estate offered without commission by the school trustees of Cicero. Geo A Philbrick treasurer advertises in room 916 Stock Exchange building 108 Lasalle street Chicago.
An innovation offers round trip Chicago to New York tickets from July 1 to October 20 at 31 dollars with stop overs in Washington Baltimore Philadelphia or Pan-American Exposition Buffalo return. The deal allows visits to Atlantic City or other seaside resorts. Send 14 cents for Guide to Washington and Reasons Why. For information contact C. G. Lemmon or B. N. Austin.
Lavender spikes begin to appear in London streets as the lavender song Who'll buy my pretty lavender sixteens spikes for a penny becomes a popular local street tune. The piece notes the lavender season aligns with hot dog days and the recent quarter’s revelry winds down.
An election held Thursday evening September 5 in Austin elected Charles B. Schenck of Oak Park as president and F G Underwood of Austin as vice president with Nicholas Nelson as secretary and Albert W Giles of Oak Park as referee A new executive committee includes T H Wilson C A Rossiter A W Giles F G Underwood and N Nelson The club invites all local chess players to join and visit the club room at 103 N Park Ave Thursdays.
Jennie McDonough Wurtzinger aged, of 5734 Cedar Street, died at home in Woodstock Illinois on September 5 after a weeklong illness. She contracted typhoid fever while visiting her parents, plus rheumatism and tonsillitis. Married June 19 at St Catherine's Church to a loving husband, she was educated in Austin public schools and known for a retiring kindly nature. Her parents Mr and Mrs John McDonough and her husband express deep sympathy for the loss.
Pan American tickets via Nickel Plate Road priced at 13 dollars round trip with 15 day validity and 16 dollars round trip for 20 days. Three daily trains offer vestibuled sleeping cars and first class dining on American Club plan. Meals 35 cents to 1 dollar. Agent John Y Calahan, 111 Adams St, Chicago. Also Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets 25 cents for belching sour stomach and bowel regulation. Sold by Harris, Schnitzus, Austin Ave, Oak Park.
The new United States consul at Turin is an Italian who came to America as a boy and earned a living first as an organ grinder with a monkey, later becoming a printer and long-time proprietor of a paper at Upper Sandusky, Ohio.
Mrs Perry of Chicago announces the opening of ladies tailoring parlors at 103 North Park Avenue. Specializing in tailor-made suits and gowns with everything in the ladies tailoring line. References from Chicago and Austin.
A permanent job offers a weekly salary from $15.00 to $18.00 for capable men or women in each town. Additional earnings possible at thirty cents per hour during spare time. Apply to Manufacturer, Box 1102, Chicago.
The Fair Oaks Nursery Company of Oak Park is now incorporated with a capital of $30,000. Commissioners Ed ward Payson, A. E. Berry, R. K. Bick ford. Officers will be announced later. Besides general landscape gardening the firm plans large scale tree propagation on new grounds.
In the north end of our grounds the landscape department sacrifices several thousand elms poplars and catalpas to make room for shrubs and ornamentals. Call for reduced prices during September. Large forest trees in large sizes available by order in September. Remember the month.
A collage of brief items: British juvenile societies total 239,000 with 2.54 million members. 7,000 work making lamp chimneys in the United States. the Siberian river constituency stretches 2,200 miles draining 600,000 square miles. Wasp predation, Croker’s racing shift to England, Mormon eastern outreach with 130 missionaries, Kansas law on unclaimed dead property, a New Jersey man’s clam wager, New York women’s clubs library plans, French police expelling foreigners, a Maine dynamiting record, a Mary Kingsley memorial taking shape as an African study group, Zola’s daily routine, Starr on college motives, and Hall Caine’s mining stint to fill a job.
A collection of clever maxims on ambition patience luck and social behavior. It offers wry observations on marriage readiness credibility and politics with a humorous tone and concise epigrams attributed to Pennsylvania Grit.
Simple home economy tips include repurposing worn white fabric into underskirts for early fall, making vanilla extract with two beans and alcohol for a cheap pure product, burning a sulphur candle to clear pests, and adding borax to wash water for whiter, brighter clothes.
A lighthearted set of exchanges unfolds with Mrs Myles and Mrs Styles trading barbs about a hat that flatters or misleads faces. A careful man warns against premature judgment while a ferry joke lands as a pun. A dreamy youth and weary maid swap lines about identity and distance as the scene closes.
Austin area churches announce sermons at First Presbyterian St Pauls Episcopal and 1st Congregational along with Unity Church First Baptist and First Methodist services this Sunday. Details include sermon titles, times, Sunday School, and upcoming Oak Park YP S C E and Congregational Association meetings inviting public attendance.
Ben Hur’s engagement at the fimais is for a limited season only. Orders for seats for any performances of the first two weeks, accompanied by money order or check, will be filled in order of receipt.
The notice advertises round trip fares from Chicago to Buffalo via Nickel Plate Road at 13.00 with 15 day limit, 20 day tickets at 16 and 30 day tickets at 21. Through service to New York and Boston offered with lowest rates. For details contact John Y. Calahan General Agent at 111 Adams Street Chicago. No 22 Sep.
Scientific optician advertises improved eye exams using the retinoscope. A single Austin office at Masonic Building offers evening hours 7 30 to 9 p m and Sunday 2 to 4 p m with house calls available. Contact by telephone.
A reader from Bagnell Missouri credits Chamberlains Cough Remedy with ending three years of bronchitis and sleepless nights after trying doctors and other medicines. The letter notes the medicine’s relief and lists local outlets George H Harris Schnitzus Pharmacy Austin Avenue Oak Park for sale.
In a remarkable urban note, small houses sit on the roofs of high New York buildings where caretakers and their families live and conduct daily life as if on ground level, illustrating a hidden micro-community above the streets.
People in Amesbury Massachusetts launch a campaign to build a monument to poet John Greenleaf Whittier who lived there for fifty years and created much of his notable work in town setting forth the proposed tribute and its significance locally.
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