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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1900
Page
2
A jumble of notes from Plymouth Place and Oak Park discuss registration days October 9 and 16 and urges voting in November. Mentions Francis Phillips collecting for the Vindicator, coal strike influence, arbitration by Oak Park ministers, Marcus Atlanna denying trusts, and Bryan’s one term pledge with public reaction.
President Roach of Chicago Consolidated Traction sent Cicero a $400 check as a good present. The gesture arrived while Trustee Utley was absent.
Citizens who passed the civil service exam after Austin joined Chicago allege 60 day men are favored for street work. The Hon. C.58 Cutting enjoys bar association backing and broad local support, with calls for united votes from Democrats and Republicans.
Judge Dunne denied the writ to stop gambling at Hawthorne race track on Wednesday. He ordered the sheriff to close the track, rejecting A E L Loeb's argument that no precedent supports mandamus arrests without warrants.
The report lists several Austin Republican clubs led by Lorimer’s approval. The March ing Legion, meeting at 5649 Lake Street, is described as influential and large. The Yates and McKinley club at 153 N Park Avenue shows enthusiasm while spending others’ money. The Huquestrian club of the Second ward has broad membership and seeks funds.
The Madison street car line will run a 30 minute schedule to connect with the elevated at Forty-eighth Street. Tickets are sold giving Thirty-fifth ward residents an advent fare to Chicago. Alderman Race and a delegation met Mr. Bogch Wednesday. The cars are 60 running and display an American flag. The service is a great accommodation to riders in the Thirty-fifth ward and Cicero.
It is claimed that price adjustment will settle Chicago taking Oak Park water mains in the Thirty-fifth ward and city water will be turned on. The locality should be consulted to see if residents prefer Lake Michigan water to artesian water now in use. Another item will accompany this.
The piece discusses pressure to supply flat buildings from a large Oak Park tower in Austin, the upcoming spring election in Cicero for ministerial offices, and the idea of rewarding capable ministers by serving the people. It notes long history of unresolved issues and praises ministers who stay to lead.
A collage of brief items notes Kogo Takahira on golf, Oklahoma cotton revenue of about 5 million annually, electric heaters in Boston and New York streetcars, Chicago sportsmen counting at least 20 000 Sunday anglers, and Cape Nome mortality risk estimates. It cites a Topeka Kansas potato harvest, Turkery pest control by Tennessee planters, and the oldest European flag from 1785. Also mentions scarce kangaroos in Australia, Philadelphia marriage licenses, a London women’s club closure, rare porcelain candlesticks selling for 12075, Kansay potato yields, and crop averages of 200 bushels per acre. It adds claims on chief national industries employment, 300 days in a year in Paris theater medicine, big athletics spending by top universities, Mrs Baden-Powell as astronomer, and phrenology in China.
Brief, dated column remarking on Chinese customs and life with satirical edges. Notes on regiments, food customs, rifles exported from Germany, coal prices, candle demand, and graveyard desecration as a cultural stereotype. Mentions Beijing population and drum signaling by police and blind citizens.
A compact column presents humor and reflections on budget entertainment titled Our Budget of Fun. It includes a humorous piece about a congressman and a land question plus an animal of the golfer poem Lament of the Golfer by S. L. I. Kiser. The autumn mood appears with vivid seasonal imagery and a farewell to summer.
A middle aged congressman with three terms uses flattery toward a constituent wife and her two year old son. The scene shifts to William Jennings Bryan Jr. taunting his father over 1896 issues, ending with a playful scolding. The excerpt traps a satirical tone about public figures and family dynamics.
City Editor and Night Assistant clash over missing early morning fire coverage. Society reporter submitted only a partial list of attendees, leaving the fire story underdeveloped with few details and insufficient byline.
A fragment shows dialogue between Softleigh and Miss Cutting as they riff on an idea. The exchange ends with Miss Cutting suggesting the notion might be another wheel discovered.
A cartoon caption shows the Black One asking how the new clothes look while the White One worries about being mistaken for a comic-paper alderman. The exchange hints at racial caricature and political satire within a public venue.
A Kansas City Star reader notes a reading lesson misprint in which a line suggests cats have a rats instead of kittens. The observer criticizes the author’s error and points to correct animal facts.
A brief humorous dialogue from a 19th century scene features Pa returning from an exposition and quipping to Little Willie about a man living in Paris. The exchange highlights dialect humor and town charades without further events.
A collier wandering on land owned by Karl D meets the owner and is challenged about walking there. When asked who gave him the land the collier quips that he has no land himself. The Earl traces ownership back to ancestors who fought for it and the collier offers to fight for it.
A humorous exchange features a customer asking about holes in a hat and a dealer retorting that anyone paying twelve dollars deserves holes for ears to stick through. The quip showcases a comic premise about value and expectations.
In a dramatic scene reported by the Baltimore American, a trembling Boxer knelt before Li Hung Chang and confessed his rage and misstep. He lamented losing his head over the uprising, while Li corrected his grammar noting the past tense. The executioner then advanced at the signal.
The groom unmasks a present for friend Bardsley as an original five stanza poem tied to his book. The bride laments no return gift, joking about a salad dish or pickle fork after their own gift exchange.
A distraught wife laments her husband’s extreme sensitivity to any impression related to snakes. The Detroit Journal notes peace can be restored only through tactful handling within the household.
Mrs Highmore scolds Mildred for a negligent appearance at the front door. She chides her daughter for an unbuttoned collar and rolled sleeves, saying such attire is inappropriate unless playing golf, amid a nearby street fire.
In a playful exchange, Miss Olive of St Louis asks about a periphrasis and Miss Browning of Boston provides a verbose circumscription. The dialogue highlights playful linguistic chatter and a reminder that terms can be explained in ornate language.
In a humorous exchange Mrs. Billikins jokes that only unusually mental powers suffer hay fever while Mrs. Wadhams counters by saying her son-in-law has it worse, reflecting light social banter.
Miss Minnie Delahanty died unexpectedly on Saturday at St Elizabeths Hospital in Chicago. Friends from Austin Oak Park and River Forest attended the funeral held Monday at St Malachys Church with high mass. She was laid to rest at God’s Acre.
A compilation of stray facts notes that irregular eyebrows were linked to insanity, postcards cost 2 cents, telegraph lines and rail accidents in the era, and global notes on commerce, mining, crime, and oddities from France and Venezuela.
Trish bred horses win three quarters of steeplechase races in England. Australians seek London market for passion fruit as Queensland becomes a vast orange orchard. War office orders a hundred thousand pairs of shoes from Cawnpore to ease British army clothing strain.
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