23 Sep 1892
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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1892
Page
1
The Oak Park Vindicator lists offices at 207 West Madison Street Chicago and Oak Park locations at 206 Lake Street and Avenue. Subscription is $2.00 per year in advance. Printing Office and Editor's Office are at 207 West Madison Street with advertising rates on application. William Harvey is editor and proprietor.
A columnist argues for a new international law to curb European immigration to the United States and Europe. He calls for mutual health leagues and quarantines to prevent crime and poverty, and urges an anticholera congress and sanitary cordons at the Ganges delta to stop the spread of disease.
Stamford man Mr. Simon Ingersoll, age 82, proposes replacing current bearings with wheel bearings so shafts turn inside them. Tests show heat and wear reduced and a third more speed obtained from the same coal, potentially speeding trains and steamers.
A new law grants a twelve dollar per month pension to army nurses appointed by the current general in the late war. The measure honors women who served in hospitals, ending their prior compensation. The Army Nurses' Association and the Women's Relief corps of the GRI announce the entitlement.
The piece mocks Miss Ashley of Ohio and Edward Cooper Hewitt as elite society, noting their wedding defies common stress by minimal attire and a European honeymoon to study together. It contrasts modern attire with medieval expectations, arguing wedding outfits once lasted a lifetime.
Lieutenant Peary and his party return from Whale Sound 77 deg 43 nm north, showing wintering on land beyond previous records. They survive in good health with one possible fatality Verhoeff, having built a turf and stone shelter and hunted for food. An argument forms that this demonstrates feasibility of sustained Arctic wintering and potential routes to the pole, alongside reflections on Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Greeley and American flag expeditions.
The article calls for redeeming ragged dirty money and replacing it with clean bills. It urges the secretary of the treasury to act promptly and suggests subtreasuries banks and savings banks assist in exchanging worn currency for fresh notes. It stresses currency should be kept neat in all respects.
A discussion insists the future newspaper will not lie or accept paid puffery. It vows reporters write truthfully, avoid foreign paper piracy, and discharge any staffer who fabricates or buys favorable coverage. It argues honest journalism will prevail or there will be no future newspaper.
Mrs. Palmer and her board announce a dormitory system near the fair grounds to house five thousand women at moderate cost. Shares at ten dollars enable twenty five days of lodging. two or three women can share a certificate. Mrs. Helen M. Barker leads the Dormitory association. Professor Bisth reports windmill powered electricity as a feasible American invention opportunity.
The text notes U.S. government power to turn ships away from cholera infected ports without letting passengers disembark. It also mentions Rev Myron Reed of Denver possibly joining as a star speaker and remarks on the wealth of 4 009 millionaires versus the country's farm value.
An elderly man known as the Ossified Man, Jonathan Bass of Lewiston New York died after his body slowly mineralized turning to bone. The piece argues there are many ossified people among us whose hearts have hardened but who continue to live as automata lacking compassion and heroism.
A global moral renewal rises among Paris students and American youth led by figures such as Paul Desjardins and Felix Adler. The movement seeks practical ethics over asceticism, with Tolstoyan influence and groups like the White Cross Society and the Salvation Army shaping this wave of reform.
The piece surveys a surge in American writing yet notes a lack of lasting names from the New England group, predicting a future rise of illustrious writers within five to ten years. It also mentions Nikola Tesla's claimed carborundum as a new substance for lighting and diamonds, but prefers a practical lightweight electric generator for streetcars.
The piece cites cholera’s victims among the underfed and dirty, critiques a drunken husband with many children, notes Mr Hall Caine on German tastes, and highlights Edward Beecher aged ninety proposing reincarnation as a path to eternal punishment based on prior earthly life and probation.
A professor lists four grand scientific aims including direct coal power and illumination via glowworm light, plus air navigation. He notes a hidden fifth task: for science and philosophy to produce plain clear sentences readers can grasp, criticizing verbose prose and citing a 185 word passage as evidence of tangled writing.
A quarrel over cholera quarantine exposes vanity and fear as Dr. Jenkins fights Ben Harrison influence while Normannia passengers faced confinement. Governor Flower spends 50 000 to secure Fir Island Surf hotel, but Long Island clam diggers resist landing the travelers, clinging to local liberty and clam shel ls.
The piece counsels Champion Corbett to retire on his laurels after a great prize fight win as a fitting send off and lasting promotion. It notes rival bicycle racer Arthur Zimmerman beating Nancy Hanks in a Springfield mile and remarks on social hierarchies among Louisiana’s light skinned class and Chicago blacks who marry whites. It also mentions Choctaw fights in Indian Territory over politics.
The national Christian Endeavor convention in New York City spurred rapid growth with about 1100 local societies added across the United States within a month of adjournment, a remarkably strong showing for the movement.
A verse dialogue contrasts Free Trade and Protection, including tariffs, labor, wages, emigration, and national wealth. The piece frames economic policy as a clash of ideals with calls for justice, schooling, housing, and liberty under a tariff or free market system.
Real estate notes describe bids for paving Washington boulevard Warren avenue and Park avenue with asphalt from Fortieth street to Guifield Park and related stretches. Debates focus on cost versus wooden blocks and concerns about horses sliding on smooth asphalt while advocates tout long term savings and elasticity of the surface.
Good looks depend on the health of vital organs. Electric Bitters act as a tonic and alterative directly on the liver stomach and kidneys. They claim to cure pimples blotches boils and improve complexion. Sold by L M Lovett Oak Park and R H Trail Austin. Prices cts and $1.00 per bottle.
An obsolete ad promotes a pocket map of the state with 7 colors and a strong cover listing counties rivers railroads and post offices. It claims date accuracy and offers maps of all states with samples mailed for 15 cents to Matthews-Northrop Co Buffalo NY. agents wanted including young people to earn money.
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