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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1897
Page
2
A common law rule binds readers who receive a regularly delivered paper without ordering it to pay. A Cicero citizen received Staats Zeitung daily for ten years but disputed bills, yet publisher Hessing won 80 euros for a decade of subscriptions, setting a precedent.
Auditorial notes lament local misrule and warn of factions on the Cicero town board while county issues loom. The piece cites telegraph monopoly costs, Oak Park sewer battles, and upcoming board clashes as Austin and nearby areas face civic tensions.
The suit to prevent the postmaster general from removing a department employee was argued before Judge Cox in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia on Saturday. The judge took the papers and said he would decide in a few days, with belief that he will uphold departmental discretion to change or remove employees by the head of the department.
Town politics in Cicero drew accusations of corruption as claims emerged that town advertising was used to reward a political debt. Critics attacked the mayor and board for favoritism, while readers note mixed progress on municipal ownership and transportation goals. Economic data from 30 post offices shows varied monthly trends, signaling cautious signs of national prosperity.
At the Cicero town board meeting a proposal to halt drilling at night near the Cartesians Wells and Proviso powerhouse was voted down after opposition. Trustees Attridge Rearden Vastine supported it while Butler McDonald Cheney and Gunthorpe opposed. The board passed an ordinance requiring railroad permits for new daytime work, but rejected a wire burial mandate as impractical and costly. The editorial cautions political maneuvering by opponents and predicts public backlash.
In San Francisco on September 13 the Supreme Court decision on the Oakland waterfront chase declares most of the water front as California property. A small portion goes to the Oakland Water Front Company, but the city of Oakland receives nothing.
Will build houses for rent or sale on East and Scoville avenues in the first block south of C N W R K. Plans to suit tenant with long term leases offered. Thos H Gale at Koom Tue, 4 La Salle Street, Chicago.
A historical ad promises to cure a cold in one day using Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. The short sales pitch claims all dyspepsia symptoms resolve if the remedy works, with a money-back style assurance.
In dense fog early yesterday on the Suburban Electric Line in Harlem Avenue two northbound trolleys collided on a single track section. Twenty one people were injured, two fatally. Motormen Jansen and Murphy died from severe head and facial injuries. Rescuers and local volunteers converted La Grange village hall into an emergency hospital as injured passengers were moved from the scene.
I Baggot of 171 Adams Street Chicago has completed the largest contracts in the susfilting and plumbing field. Starting in 1867 he is the oldest in Chicago’s bias and electric business, with the biggest stock of glassware shades globes and electric appliances. Notable projects include gas and electric work for the Marquette Stewart New York Life Masonica Temple and fifty other first class buildings in Chicago. Reader attention is drawn to his advertisement on the first page.
In Oak Park at First Congregational Church, the Hulbert faction seeks to bar deacons and trustees from re election, increase deacons from eight to ten, and defend Pastor Hulbert’s memory after his death. A letter from Josiah Cratty and John Wheeler spurs action as reporters are barred from the meeting. The widow Hulbert will continue to receive her late husband's salary through year end.
By unanimous vote the Oak Park Club agrees to admit Prairie Club members under a suspension of initiation fees. The consolidation boosts Oak Park to add forty to fifty new members, likely overloading the limit briefly, with two to three weeks needed for transfers and many applications already arriving. The Entertainment Committee plans a grand opening reception on October 6, and a new winter program to attract dancers and a paid instructor, with potential split classes for beginners.
A partial OCR text mentions a tie and an established house in Illinois with monthly 16500, expenses, and a reference to VPostton. It also alludes to the Dominion Company, Department, and Cuncage, but the fragment lacks clear actions, dates, or definitive entities.
Oak Park’s crack nine fell 11 to 10 to the Illinois Cycling Club on Saturday at Oak Park. Andrews led the wheelmen with five hits including a ninth inning triple, Murphy pitched well behind the plate, and Sickles and Bloomingston boosted defense and offense. Oak Park’s Hamlin erred four times, and Parker struggled under pressure as Oak Park failed to chase down the late lead.
A September 12 1897 Oak Park column argues patrons deserve better baseball quality for their dollars and criticizes the Ath letic association for not paying players. The writer urges salaries to replace underperforming players and condemns josh ing of players while warning that patriotic schemes risk ruining the grand stand.
Oak Park High School begins preparations for football with physical instructor Treadway from Yale, captain of the Henley crew, testing candidates on the field. The program aims to overcome past parental opposition and bad luck on the gridiron.
Tomorrow at 3 30 p m on the club grounds the Oak Park married men face the unmarried team in a premier baseball showdown. Lineups list Johnson at first for the married side and Johnson the pitcher for the singles, with Armbruster MacDonald Hoyt and others. Umpire Tindell. Free admission with tickets from members or the steward. Spectators warned against taunting uniforms or umpire and may be ejected. early attendance urged for best grandstand seats.
A gray fox raised among city chimneys at a Boston tavern spends life on the roof 100 feet above street level. Taken from Maine as a cub, she lives with porter Tom as caretaker. After one cub died, the survivor remains wary of strangers but comes to the keeper by day. The roof offers space for roaming, a sleeping earth box, and a dramatic urban vignette of wildlife amid hotel life.
On Hia Mata the speaker recalls cleaning a watch in three different cases a gold case a gold filled case and now a silver case The exchange ends with a pun about circumstances altering cases and a line from Up-to-Date showing lighthearted wordplay
In a Cleaveland Leader line the term anchorite is playfully defined as the fellow who tends to the anchor. It follows a jokey exchange about Little Willie-Pa, Pa being elected a yacht club member.
Proviso town employs two village clerks who serve as school teachers in German and Lutheran schools. Meier, head of the Lutheran parochial school in Harlem, is viewed as an exceptionally capable teacher with an aspiring theology student as assistant. About 240 pupils are taught between both schools, with German instruction in the morning and English in the afternoon.
For sale 8,300 8-room new house with bathroom furnace gas electric light screens gas range terms cash and 6 percent interest a month. Located at southeast corner East avenue and South boulevard. Visit room 403 84 La Balto street Chicago with THOS. H. GALE.
The article argues that people eat based on taste rather than dietetic value and that abstaining from regular meals can rest digestive organs. It recommends a strict regimen, including bread potatoes milk butter steak with eggs and soup as variety, and highlights water’s importance to a healthy diet while noting common failures from temptation and child cravings.
At a London Institution of Civil Engineers meeting Professor Forbes discussed using the Nile catacombs and the Victoria Falls on the Zambesi to generate electricity for African mines. He considered the idea feasible and suggested transmission could extend up to nearly 1,000 miles.
A poem notes a wedding novice attending with pride in his faultless attire. He mimics others yet struggles with words, wishing his charming bride many happy returns of the day as Emma C. writes in the Ladies Journal in September.
In a bold claim the wild-eyed inventor swears by spring he will be rich claiming to have a near perfected process to make gold edible. He envisions wealth beyond imagination as others also chase similar promises in a Kondike style rush.
A reflective, aphoristic piece contrasts modern behavior with biblical and moral standards. It critiques self serving zeal, unchecked aggression, and superficial piety while urging charity, learning, and cheerful influence to improve society and personal fate.
The New York owner of a long haired French poodle has repeatedly clipped twenty pounds of soft white wool from its coat. The wool will be woven into cloth and used to fashion a suit of clothes.
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