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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1898
Page
5
Mrs. Charles Castle remains seriously ill while residents share visits and updates on friends and families. Notables mention engagements, travels, nursing letters, and local club plans. Military and educational notes include Ill. missions talks, Keeley lectures, and a Minnesota regiment furlough.
John Arenz a Bow man Dairy Company driver, killed himself Tuesday night around 10 o clock in his Oak Park hotel room. He had recently moved to Oak Park from Chicago where his brother works, and a letter left behind cited weariness with life.
The Oak Park Club will begin a new season with Louis F. Cooley returning as steward for another year and Eugene A. Bournique hired as winter dancing instructor. Melancthon Smith reports all bills paid and a small cash balance. The entertainment committee reveals October events including Opening party on Oct 4, Gentlemen’s smoker on Oct 5, The White City stereopticon on Oct 11, card party on Oct 18, and Ladies stag party on Oct 25.
The River Forest Women's Club held a September meeting where Mrs Ky Bagley urged compulsory education as essential for democracy and social settlement work. Mrs Hielen N Jackson and Mrs Hattie S Broughton were elected delegates to the state federation in Chicago. The club also honors Florence Ativan Pugidls as vice president of the Second Congressional District.
AUSTIN WOMAN'S CLUB reports Miss Jessie L. Clough gave an engaging chalk talk on Paris Monday afternoon. The library committee adopted 200 new volumes for public use with a 4 cents weekly or 1 dollar yearly membership option. A department of history and travel meeting is set for Tuesday afternoon September 27 at Mrs. Ostrander's home.
The Nineteenth Century Club begins its eighth year with a Monday meeting at Scoville Institute on October 3. No business is planned. The calendar theme is President's Day and features an Oct. 10 talk promised by Prof. Graham Taylor of Chicago Commons. Officers include Julia Morris as president and Addie S. Chenoweth as vice president.
A Madagascar husband may divorce his wife for a trivial offense by gathering friends and relatives at the door and giving the wife a small coin while saying Madam, thank you, go. An underdone dinner is offered as justification.
A Japanese auction is described where bidders do not shout bids but write their names and offer on slips, place them in a box, and the article goes to the highest offer. The process is noted as a most solemn affair with the public silently participating.
The Cicero town board on September 16 1898 creates a plumbing and drainage inspector office approves sidewalk and plank walk projects hires bidders for cement walks and assigns sewer work. It repeals street railway franchises and adjourns to October 4 while a biologist cites brain cell churn.
Mamie Tallant eldest daughter of George W and Annie Tallant formerly of Austin died of consumption at her home 1964 North Marshfield Avenue Chicago on September 19 1898 aged eleven. Funeral services were held at the house September 20 at 2 pm with flowers from her teacher schoolmates Sunday school and Iapworth League. Hundreds of schoolchildren gave last looks at their companion as hymns Just As I Am and The Roll Call were sung. Interment at Graceland.
A physical culture club for women directed by Mlle Madaline Brown will start the first Tuesday in October at 10 am. Classes meet weekly at the Austin Woman club rooms through winter with a $10 fee. Contact any Women's Club officer to enroll. The program covers systematic exercises based on scientific principles for full muscle development and health, with focus on Indian club swinging. Miss Brown has led a two year Austin class with satisfactory results.
J K Decker complains of harsh conditions for soldiers returning from Camp Wickoff. He cites an incident on the train where a private soldier, who paid fare, was barred from riding in the coach while two officers and three women were allowed aboard, alleged to reflect bias against volunteers.
Mr E W Young was seen riding a handsome motocycle in Austin this week. The vehicle cost about 2000 dollars and offers very low running costs. Young enjoyed it during a trip to Oconomowoc this summer before bringing it home. The current cheapest motocycle is about 1000 dollars.
A barber shop owner sold his business for more than the value of personal property and left town after another sale. Steinman sold his shop at 105 No Park Avenue to Re BL Hiller, then reopened elsewhere and plans another sale to leave town again. The piece warns the public about such business practices and urges scrutiny of future openings in the locality.
In scarce land areas a cottage clings to a rock face with a back approach via climbable rock. Remote blocks feature quirky huts including a bootmaker’s shop built from sacks and saplings, its chimney formed from Punga-Punge tree-fern stems.
The world records about 180000 personal crisis deaths annually and the trend is upward. Most occur in June and the fewest in September, with nearly half taking place between 6 a.m. and noon.
Absent Mr Irrank Myer on a fishing trip. Miss Lucy Hart enters Bloomington normal school. Mrs J H Merrill visiting Homestead Michigan and bringing Jamie Dack. Walter Payne of Fostoria returns home after guesting with Walter Adams. Primary grades cut to half session due to crowded Maywood schools. Mr H A Owen leaves for Indiana home. Miss May Benjamin hosts Sunday school class with Geneva Switzerland souvenir. Ed Klug’s funeral observed. obituary next week. Democrats organize precinct club with A B Adair president. meetings biweekly at Maywood opera hall. Soldiers reception hosted by Rev Dunep. Dr Currens injures foot, crutch use followed by prayer meeting cure. Miss Florence Woodford teaching. Mrs Charlton to return soon. Mrs Chas Woods entertaining. Madame Hammond improving from illness. Rebt Caughie begins Henderson Shoe Co travel in Iowa. Mrs M Carter and daughter Gertrude ill but improving. Egbert family moves to new house at Ontario and Humphrey. Miss Marshall returns from Wisconsin trip. Mr and Mrs Perkins return from Michigan with guest. Local house-to-house canvass questioned Hawthorne race track sentiment. Mrs Merrill at Surgeons hospital under Dr. Tope. Mrs Ward returns from Elmhurst with harvest grapes. Congregational church hosts postal needs meeting. Postmaster Hutchinson confirms two daily deliveries between Chicago Ave and Madison St with two extra carriers after Oct 1.
A Harlem village roundup cites a Ball at Schank's Hall on Oct, Vanderberg opens a Chicago grocery on Elgin near Dixon, Lang opens North Circle saloon, Forest Home greenhouses remodel cost 1200 dollars, Treasurer Roost ill but improving, Circle Pleasure Club reception at Schank's Hall Sept 24 with medals for prize events, Kindergarten in Library building open with strong attendance, Harlem directory released, local race track owner reports strong income, Turners fair at Gaden's Hall Oct 13 16 with theater and turners' performances, two voting contests for best farmer and best beer, admission 75 cents, family season ticket 1 dollar.
In Hooke Glen New York a pet cat saved an infant by killing a large rattlesnake as it approached the child. The mother Mrs Robert Snow had set the baby on the grass with a pet cat nearby when the snake hissed and the cat seized and killed it within two feet of the infant.
The passage notes that Moorish coffee drinkers, especially merchants, drink constantly in bazaars from morning until night. It claims eyesight declines after age forty or forty-five and blindness often appears by fifty, linking this to heavy coffee use seen among Fez residents.
Mrs T H Done and daughter return from New York while Mr and Mrs L L Moore welcome a baby boy. A little girl arrives for A L F Parker and wife. Charlie Scharanberg and William Weese are at Macatawa Park with the engineering corps. Major and Mrs W C D Gillespie return from Woman's Lake trip. Clayton Andrews dies of heart failure. J C Mooar dies of heart disease. one of River Forest’s oldest residents. Many dogs poisoned recently. harm to owners’ companions. Captain Chenowith home on furlough after health improvements. Corporal Edward C Waller discharged and returns to Yale. Col Roosevelt recommends promotion. Maywood’s Norton Bros factory vents heavy smoke. nuisance to nearby residents. River Forest high school football team formed with Bailey, Grant, Hatch, Anderson, Page, Sherman, Marble, C Sullivan, S Sullivan, Baker, Wherry. average weight 100 pounds. open for Saturday games with equal teams.
A returned Cuban War soldier recalls how burial details broke down under the strain. He describes the uncoffined bodies being buried, earth rattling on coffins, and buzzards circling, leaving men emotionally shattered and some facing early burial themselves.
A curious turtle catching method in the West Indies ties a ring and line to a sucker fish tail. The fish is thrown overboard and clamps onto a turtle with a suction apparatus on its head. The fisherman then hauls in both turtle and fish.
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