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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1895
Page
7
Oak Park shoppers see frequent Enterprise department store promotions featuring clothing dress goods shoes and millinery across Marion street with mentions of opening sales renovations and seating for sales staff. Local notes include residents traveling to Florida, visitors from Burlington Iowa, church events and mission society meetings, bicycle theft attempts, and community updates on schools and street improvements.
Charles Fields found a stray six year old boy at Austin avenue and Randolph street. The boy, tongue tied, could not state his name or residence but pointed west. Police checked for inquiries with no results. At 8:30 a.m. Thursday his sister from Chicago arrived. they live at 378 North Harding Street. The boy Charley Garbarsa wandered six to seven miles. Local police note dozen similar cases this summer with successful reunions.
A historical advertisement offers a hundred dollar reward for an incurable case of catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure. It cites testimonials from W est Tru am and other Toledo druggists vouching for F J Cheney & Co and claims the remedy works by altering blood and mucous surfaces. Price listed is 1.50 per bottle and says testimonials are free.
A dense mix of community notices, advertisements and short items. Mentions visits by Mrs. Moore, Mrs. Steward, and Mrs. Scribner. Oak Park Enterprise department store promotions. Water works jobs and strikes. births, deaths, birthdays. church events. Maywood and Melrose boundary policing. Welch's cigars and Lyon Healy strings. Maywood Pharmacy leadership change. various dressmaking and millinery offers. Several local residences, stores, and parish notices reflect a bustling small-town Oak Park Maywood scene.
Village notes thefts in River Forest during a marshal’s absence as intruders steal goods from several homes. Residents discuss Lake street grading, sewer work, and a pending suburban franchise decision while schools face overcrowding and new enterprises open at The New Enterprise Oak Park. Social events include church services, choir outings, and community entertainments amid continued civic projects and residents moving in.
Harlem development items include rapid progress on the Forest Home greenhouses and a slow water works well project. Enterprise department store lists ladies and children's furnishings at 113 115 Marion street, Oak Park, with dress goods and linings. Mr and Mrs Luettner have ended housekeeping and will move. The Harlem Post, a new weekly in German edited by Frank Lehman, debuts as a four column folio. Desplaines avenue residence of F R Haase is near completion and described as elegant. Western Bill Posting Co erects a large billboard on Harlem avenue behind Schwass saloon. Wyland reports health improvement after visiting California and meeting Geo C Anderegg. New street railway crossing across Northwestern tracks on Harlem avenue completed last Thursday. Millinery, dress-making, and shoes advertised at Enterprise department. Coroner’s jury fixes apoplexy as death cause for Mrs Margareth Clumer in Harlem.
Miss Amelia Bourgeois accepts a milliner post at the Enterprise in Oak Park. An advertisement notes the address 113-815 Marion Street. A heavy harvest is reported from vacant lots south of the Pavilion as French timothy. The New Enterprise clothing department opens Monday at 113-115 Marion Street Oak Park. Rev Bryan preached at the Methodist Church last Sunday.
A distinctive Isle of Man wedding linked Oak Park residents Mr. and Mrs. Quayle. William Queen and Edith Bruton married at Rev. R. H. Pooley’s home. The bride formerly lived in Southern Africa and Europe before the engagement. The couple will reside in Austin.
Readers offered a free trial bottle of Dr King s New Discovery with a free Guide to Health and Household Instructor. Send name and address to H E Bucklen Co Chicago for samples. Gua ranteed to do good at no cost, sold by L M Lovett Oak Park and R H Trail Austin.
Oak Park Fair advertised at 147 Lake Street inviting residents to attend the community event. The brief notice emphasizes location and accessibility for locals seeking information about the fair.
A young preacher denying creeds and refusing name leads a large English Indiana congregation with novel views on heaven and hell. He equates death with sleep and envisions a dream-filled afterlife where happiness or misery follows based on earthly righteousness, attracting many converts despite orthodox mockery.
A New York Sun idea proposes rotating the William Penn statue atop City Hall to balance city sightlines. The scheme uses cogwheels clockwork and electricity to rotate once every 24 hours, letting Penn face different regions hourly. The proposal stirs debate between north and south sides of Market Street.
Dr Louis F Hanson of Brooklyn extracted a huge upper tooth from Mrs M Jensen after removing all teeth except the left eyetooth. Using extra large forceps the tooth measured 19 16 inches, touted as the largest human tooth by several New York dentists who offered $100 for it. Hanson kept the prize.
George S. Courter of North Yakima returned from Neah Bay and Clalam county and reported timber there will make its owners wealthy. He measured several spruce trees, noting a base circumference of 36 feet and a fallen tree 216 feet long with a 15 feet circumference at the break.
Antrim New Hampshire is praised as a model town and summer resort beacon due to Governor Goodell and local improvement efforts. The piece notes pure mountain lake water electric lights sidewalks a sewer system town hall with auditorium bandstand band and soldiers' monument. It highlights orderly roads low police expenses no liquor shops for 88 years and improved road management after Governor Goodell took over contracting services.
In Georgia a town divides visits by street with each street assigned a weekday for at home days. One street on Monday another on Tuesday through the week, allowing many calls in a single afternoon without constant travel.
A damaged notice offers a promotional catalog and discount sheet for new and second-hand items. It mentions a Chicago address for the seller and uses unclear wording about savings and existence of a limited offer. The fragmentary text provides little verifiable detail beyond the street and city.
Dr. Clay MacCauley leads the Senshin Sakuen School For Advanced Learning in Tokyo, funded by the American Unitarian Association. The school aims to blend science with religion and ethics, teaching students to study all creeds without orthodoxy while preparing Japan for a modern era. Dr. MacCauley, born in 1843, is a Chicago-educated Unitarian minister with strong ties to Japanese literati. Prince Pak Yong appears in exile in another item, detailing his fall from Korea’s throne and escape to Japan, where he studies American politics and language before likely returning to Korea.
Five years ago Northfield was seen as doomed yet residents mobilized to attract industry. A granite firm moved in after a rail spur and sheds were built, employing about 100 people, while a corn factory followed. The lesson: united effort to lure businesses grows payrolls and revitalizes towns.
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