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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1896
Page
2
The item surveys a mix of odd anecdotes from Chicago area life, including Oak Park's proximity to Chicago, odd quotes about popularity and happiness, and various vignettes. It mentions figures like A.T. Stewart and Miss Thurlow while touching on political winds and social curiosities.
A ragged tramp on a town platform shares a tale of hunger and illness. A passenger questions him then leads a group to a graveyard sight where the man reveals his family’s graves. The crowd raises funds and a spectator adds five dollars to help him.
An aged account describes a random midlands estate breakfast with a foreign guest, the principal beverage a claret. A farmer jokes about wine quality, praising a taste that exceeds prior Toover offerings as guests cheer.
A fragment notes a youthful team on Che’s first floor contending with aggressive callers. The New York World line hints at stronger roots in the group and improves on accompanying figures.
The list covers items such as a device to secure cows tails during milking an electric engine lighter a small electric torch a pin badge with a pitchfork and bag a cook stove oven door design a gymnastic apparatus a perpetual advertising clock and a bird shaped pen wiper with a flannel beak to wipe the pen as it is drawn.
The article recalls six U S Navy ships reported as Never heard from with no further trace including the Wasp after Oct 1 1814 and the brig Epervier last seen after July 12 1815, all ships swallowed by the sea ending in enduring mystery.
A historical account recalls several U S Navy ships lost at sea from 1780 to 1808 including the Saratoga Insurgent Wasp and gunboat No 7 plus a brig Pickering and their enigmatic fates. The piece contrasts these losses with the later resilience of the American navy and its safeguarded ships.
An old army officer recalls a government camp near Kibisillah Mendocino coast where he put scrap iron life preservers on tramps to warn and guide them along a treacherous beach route to Fort Bragg. The device was swapped from tramp to tramp over eighteen miles and moved for over a year.
Uncle Eben laments reformers who seek power while others do the work, describing the enduring "great troubles" of human progress and the complaint that reformers only stand by to boss the job while others labor.
Engineer Poremus stopped a New Jersey Line train near West Haverstraw after spotting a baby on the tracks. Fireman Schmoll carried the child to safety and local resident Peter Suhl sheltered it. Police seek a man in a light suit and straw hat seen fleeing the scene.
In the Kinga Presence Li Hung Chang reportedly shattered Belgian court etiquette by smoking a long pipe after handing it to his secretary to fill and return. King Leopold reacted with surprise and promptly had cigarettes circulated, altering Lieding’s stance from isolation to sociable engagement.
A resourceful wheelman from Coney Island had his tire punctured, replaced with a heavy rope, and rode home eight miles without discomfort. The club he belongs to is so proud they had a rope framed.
The San Francisco Examiner reports physician Dr Hodghead promoting vocal exercises as beneficial for lung health. He argues vocal gymnastics increase fresh air intake, expand air vessels, and form new vesicles, advising proper breathing and ample room air.
A veteran staffer in a New York comic weekly, known for vetoing old jokes, preserves the paper’s integrity by matching old sketches to their first print dates. His memory is famed, and years of exposing fakers have left him wary of writers and artists while he boasted that no recycled joke has slipped into the pages.
Evolution of the Bicycle describes Starley’s use of differential motion on a tricycle, transforming it into a pivotal machine. The text traces the shift to equal sized wheels and the emergence of the term bicyclette coined by a Petit Journal writer.
A Glasgow inventor has devised a new furnace smoke prevention method. A peculiar door construction makes the smoke whirl in eddies until it is consumed, reducing escape of smoke from furnaces.
Boston tests propose hollow water filled pipes as jail cells. When a pipe is severed the alarm is raised via office registers, signaling which cell was attacked. The system argues water pressure and simple gas pipe work, making cutting attempts detectable and prompt.
In a Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph excerpt, an agent questions Snaggs about insuring his life. Snaggs responds that the idea of being more usable after death than in life is distasteful.
A critic describes a fictional heroine as the novelist’s vision of female beauty with a swanlike neck and celestial eyes. The piece notes the creature’s lips, teeth, ears, and overall elegance as characteristic of the imagined figure.
Odell Williams is said to have inherited the mantle of the late Frank Mayo and will play the title role in Pudd’nhead Wilson this year, continuing a family tradition noted in a London Judy remark about marrying.
A brief humorous scene at a Washington physician's office shows a visitor pressing for access to the doctor. The doctor gently remarks the patient may benefit from time in the country as he hints at his busy schedule. The woman departs and the doctor wonders about her next visit.
Howard Cavelle alias Howard Kimball fled across borders after courting widows and old maids nationwide. He posed as a wealthy Louisiana planter, fleecing victims including Mrs Ida J Smith of Toledo who funded his escape and later testified in Chicago. Cavelle, arrested in New York then Chicago, faced charges of fugitive from justice, while accomplice Neeley served a perjury sentence. Cavelle’s earlier crimes included post office and bank robberies in Canada.
Max Hamlin of Siblings Shoals Texas fell into the Brazos River while fishing with a companion. Hamlin screamed for help as alligators attacked him and dragged him under. The companion Lamon witnessed the attack and retrieved the mangled remains later on a sandbar.
Eight years after J. W. Sanders of Anderson Indiana believed his son Claude was dead in Missouri a grave near Joplin was located. Last week Young Swan visited the Sanders home and proved he is the long lost son, bringing joy to a father overwhelmed with happiness.
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