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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1900
Page
2
The Cicero town board considers ordering cement sidewalks and reducing license fees for plumbers from 70. The Scoville Library reports a 3500 annual deficit needing public support. Alderman Race pushes a flagman ordinance for elevated street crossings. Evidence is gathered to pursue penalties.
Attorney Charles H. Burras launched the Republican campaign in his hometown North Fairfield Ohio with a 90 minute speech on national issues during a weeklong vacation. He plans to stump across the state this fall for the Republican ticket.
Alderman Hunter urged Cicero town board Thursday night to cancel the Mandel water supply pipes assessment from Suburban Water Co. Talks also center on transferring the 35th ward pipes to Chicago amid recent negotiations.
Clayton E. Crafts will campaign for candidate Alshuler and speak at Democratic rallies with Alshuler and Bryan. He is set to appear next Saturday night in Chicago Heights for a grand demonstration organized by the Bryan and Alshuler Club.
A collage of quotations on forgiveness by Richter Colton Beecher Herbart Bruyere Shenstone and Colton. The brief excerpts discuss forgiving, forgetting, revenge, and reconciliation, contrasting ease of forgiving the weak with the harder task of forgiving the powerful.
The Gathmann gun introduces a new era in harbor defenses with an eight inch bore and twelve mile range. It uses service power rather than compressed air and a new post position finder to locate ships entering protected bays by electric wire sensing. Its high rate and precision promise stronger American seaport protection, though crews are stretched overseas.
The article describes a coastal defense gun planned to fire shells packed with 600 pounds of guncotton, creating devastating blast effects up to twelve miles. It explains the ignition mechanism, the risk of guncotton, and the use of multiple guns along coastlines to deter naval targets in harbor defenses.
An English resident at Hackensack New Jersey lived ten years without papers. He sailed to England after learning of a $2000 inheritance, sent the funds to his wife, kept enough to return, but landed penniless in New York. Authorities sent him back to England, forcing a new request for money.
Just before the war Rhodes offered President Kruger a lioness from his wild animal collection. Oom Paul declined the gift, it returned to Rhodes and was sent to London. The Illustrated London News notes the lioness has trimmed ears, not a shortened tail, as some reports claimed.
Peter Mac Queen lauds the Boers as farmers turned fighters, praising their piety courage and discipline. He notes two Boer generations and their fear England may seize farms. Also, Miss Lillie Ray named deputy US marshal to Hawaii's Daniel A. Ray.
Massachusetts reports 6 546 inmates on July 1 up 125 from a year earlier. A burglar stole 600 from a St Paul resident and returned it the next day along with 250 more. An Expo Paris display features tea cups valued around 600. The Atlantic’s roughest section lies north of 40 to 50 degrees.
An advertisement from F. BR at 107 North Park Avenue Austin proposes help with mortgage financing and building funds. The notice invites readers needing loans to contact the sender.
Multiple rental notices list rooms and suites for rent with prices and locations in Austin and nearby Oak Park. Items include three housekeeping rooms at 5516 Ohio Street near Central for 7.50, six rooms near Chicago Avenue electric, two large steam heated front rooms at 133 Baird Avenue, three-room suites with dining room in Ridge land Hotel Oak Park, and two furnished rooms with a building for sale at 5320 Indiana Street Austin.
For sale two 5 month old full blood Newfoundland puppies. Call for details at 2296 Ohio Street. More land.
Seven of eight loaves in London use foreign wheat while more than one third of French manufactured goods are made by women. Tokyo courts trial electric lighting, France ships wine bulk in tank cars, a Bayshore shark weighs 200 pounds, Baroness Burdett Coutts may have donated over a million pounds, and a paper tied to a window signals rooms to let in Mexico.
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