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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1901
Page
3
The notice promotes a mail subscription deal with one year terms and prepaid postage. It mentions new subscribers in Taree and lists copies and charges, highlighting round-elay mail delivery and a postal payment option.
Prominent Maywood residents participated in hanging Czolgosz in effigy one night and burning remains the following night. Ames M. Pierce plans to move to Seattle around October 1 to start a new business. Austin and Oak Park honor the late president with services and decorum. Donaldson & Worswick released a bound pamphlet of McKinley’s last speech. Local interest grows in Oak Park looped transit and elevated Lake Street plans. Mrs. Irving leaves town amid many unpaid bills. Mayor Harrison places Alderman Hunter on memorial and finance committees for Chicago services. Tom Hunter often leads by example in funding efforts.
Rev George A Campbell of the Christian church will lecture on Christian Science and Dowie ism next Sunday at 11 o clock. The subject is timely as united prayers of the world are directed toGod to save our president. You will be very welcome at this service.
Oak Park committee on delinquent personal property taxes offers an opportunity to settle. The press supports the effort though voices caution the burden on schools and government should be shared. Mr. H. D. Pierce started the movement. upon his departure, E. S. Conway, Jesse Baldwin, and J. H. Heald continued collecting names for the appeal.
County Judge Carter will hear reasons urged for calling a special election in Cicero this fall on separation September 28. Everyone interested should be on hand to speak for or against the question. The additional expense of holding the election at this time will be $3,500.
A Lucerne newspaper recounts a Belgian count who, after traveling through Switzerland, was harassed by crowds that insisted he must be Dreyfus. He showed his card to prove his identity after persistent disbelief about his claim.
Austin pauses to honor the late president with 11 am services at First Presbyterian Church led by Rev. H. M. Johnson. Ministers from several denominations spoke of national unity, faith, and grief as the church choir sang and the audience prayed.
The First Congregational church in Oak Park held its most impressive and largely attended services with the auditorium full and an overflow meeting on the first floor. Rev. Wm. EB. Barton presided, as did Mr. O. D. Allen at the overflow. Addresses were given by 8. S. Rogers Rev. J. W. Conley Norris Hall and W. H. Hatch. The church choir performed with Dr. Louis Falk at the organ.
Sept 14 1901 a letter from collector W D Dunham outlines delinquent personal property taxes for 1899 and 1900 in school district No 1. It lists 137 delinquents totaling 2792 21 dollars and 315 delinquents totaling 4998 75 dollars. The letter urges immediate collection and warns against public listing until notice is given. It cites Illinois revenue law section 161 and recommends coordination with the county treasurer.
A reel of classified items shows Wanted kitchen girl dressmaking and housework help with addresses in Oak Park and Austin. rental listings include furnished flats and rooms at Ohio street Madison avenue North Central avenue and Park avenue with various amenities. Also mentions a cottage move and commercial space 5430 Chicago avenue with medical or dental office potential.
Obituaries report Francis M. Smith aged 1 year 6 months interment at Forest Home scheduled Thursday. Jane M Kittrick 63 died Sept 11 shipped to St Louis for burial. Matilda Stone 49 died of typhoid fever at 5303 Washington Blvd leaving four sons. funeral Sunday at home and burial Graceland. Albert Mouns in Chicago since the 1850s, Civil War veteran and Teutonia leader, died Sept 8. funeral Sept 10 Rosehill burial.
For sale a pedigreed female collie dog at X 97, Vindicator and Times office, Austin or Oak Park. Also a small horse with harness open one seated buggy and cutter in good condition. Inquire of owner at 817 North Park Avenue, Austin. Shade trees including catalpas, elms, maples four years old ready for fall planting. Rena 8 Tut hill, 422 North Central Avenue. Telephone 1963.
A church wedding was celebrated at St Pauls German Lutheran as Frank J Hestermann and Cath erine Urbach exchanged vows in German Rev Adolph Dartling officiated The bride wore white silk and veil The groom in black broadcloth Bridesmaids May Urbach Anna Hestermann Emma Urbach Groomsmen George Martens Albert Hestermann Charles Badenstab A reception followed at the bride’s home 5824 Cedar Street About 150 relatives attended The couple will reside at 5727 Chicago Avenue in a furnished flat
Miss Bertha Tesnow and Mr. Dedrich Lau were married on Thursday evening September 12 at the Lutheran Church in Harlem. A reception followed at the bride’s home, 519 North Harlem avenue.
Not listed in Oak Park directory but continuing business. A 12 foot entrance sign has stood for five years and a canvasser error is cited. Ad dress Fair Oaks Nursery Co for trees shrubs and roses. Landscape gardening services promoted.
Soul Culture Club hosted a surprise farewell at Mrs. Emma Walker's home last Saturday for member Mrs. J. K. O'Neil who is leaving Austin. Reading, piano pieces, and a few gifts were shared as the club expressed regret at her departure.
Miscellaneous classified items note Miss M Bublitz seeks engagements for family sewing in fall with latest fashions. Also Mrs Waugh in Austin offers steady employment for competent and willing girls at wages from $1 to $7 weekly. Lost white flannel shawl on Marion Street or North Boulevard Oak Park. Sewing work offered at $1.60 daily by experienced dressmaker K Vindicator Times Austin. Mill Holland advertises fashionable dressmaking at 920 North Central Avenue Austin. Loan offer for mortgage maturities by F K Pray at 107 North Park Avenue Austin. Piano tuning cards at Cody Block Studio of Music and Garner's Drug Store. C H Fannhee, Maywood.
The department showcases contributors such as A S Draper Geo F Hoar John H Finley Newell Dwight Hillis Carroll D Wright Ellen M Henrotin May Wright Sewall Alice Morse Earle Mary Hartwell Catherwood and popular women writers. It covers topics like The Women's Club Movement The Art of Living a Hundred Years What the Government Does Colonial Governments Contemporary Literatures American Life of a Century Ago and The Opportunity and the Man. A new topics slate begins mid June.
Public notice announces affordable wall paper and decorating services with a price list per roll and contact phone 2842. Also reports from the Chicago Record-Herald on Norway's 1901 census: average income 326 kroner per person per year, a savings bank for every 5,600 inhabitants, and 119 kroner average deposits, highlighting thrift.
Morris Wilther of Humphrey Avenue and Helen Agnes Norris of 5604 McCallum Street married Wednesday night at the bride’s home with Rev. H. M. Reed officiating. About seventy relatives attended and gifts were exchanged. They will reside at 550 North Prairie Avenue.
Shrubbery and trees enhance rolling or terraced lawns, with design ideas to improve effect. Consult Fair Oaks Nursery Co., Oaks Park for guidance on plant choices and landscape planning.
A London Lady's Pictorial account describes the ghostlike coin hunters of Paris known as flleurs de monnaie. They scour pavements for dropped coins, sometimes earning about 1 franc 50 centimes daily, while some claim as much as 3 francs. They are described as wretched looking, walking in Indian file with eyes fixed on the ground, finding a tiring trade.
Geographers have calculated that if all rivers dumped their floods into an emptied ocean and no evaporation occurred, it would take 40,000 years for the sea to regain its present level.
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