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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1900
Page
8
Doctors warn that new chest ailments linked to the Jigamaree or net guimpe may deter women from shoulders next summer but the ban on corsets has not eliminated related illnesses. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch cites medical opinion on fashion’s health costs.
General Richard H O Grady Haly named commander in chief of British troops in Canada. He earned the Distinguished Service Order for 1882 Egyptian campaign service as a fighting officer with the Second York and Lancashire regiments.
Tables Can Wear Shoes. One size smaller after using Allen's Foot- Ease, a powder. It makes tight or new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweating, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. All druggists and shoe stores, 250, Trial package FREE by mail. Ad dress Allen 8, Olmsted. Le Roy, N.Y.
The text blends quips and product pitches from a bygone era. It cites sea travel times to Nome, patent remedies like Hall's Catarrh Cure, hair and corn cures, teething syrup, and fashion of social sayings. A scattered collage mirrors vintage newspaper filler.
Madison Cancin presents a stark poem in Harper's Magazine about drought and ruin across a parched landscape. The speaker observes withering flora and lifeless fauna, contrasts vivid colors with decay, and ends with a moody reflection on nature’s desolation.
Mrs. Sandyrs Kempton awaits Theodore Vellan at Bowden's Hotel Cork Street after thirty years. In a revealing reunion in her drawing room, Vellan recalls his youth, his Oxford circle, and confessing his lifelong love for Mary Isona, the Italian teacher who remains central to his longing.
A woman recalls a doomed love with Theodore Vellan through letters from Mary Isonah. Traumatic life pressures and social distance drive Mary to despair and death. Margaret Kempton wrestles with whether to reveal the letter and Mary’s secret.
In Telemarken a man found the mortal remains of a vixen and two cubs slain the previous night on the mountainside. He waited for the earth to return, and the owner later appeared with eleven caper cailzie, a full-grown hen, and a mouse. The hen held the mouse in her beak as the bundle was packed between the wings.
A New York Press item catalogs English religious denominations and sects, noting a diverse list totaling 800 or more with many amusing names. The collection highlights groups such as Glassites Open Baptists Open Brethren Particular Baptists and Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion among others.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railway offers Homeseekers Excursion tickets to South Dakota for a round trip fare plus $2, on September 18 and October 2, 1900. Tickets enable travel to Mitchell for the Corn Belt Exposition September 26 to October 4. The event showcases agricultural potential and land opportunities. Contact the railway or General Passenger Agent Geo H Heafford for details.
John D. Crimmins, head of the syndicate seeking a Nicaragua canal under the Syre Cragin concession, said New Jersey based company will proceed with its contract. He claims $13,000,000 suffices to build and estimates cost to the government. Route favored is Nicaragua, with a perpetual concession and ten mile policing rights.
The article praises Queen Victoria's vast knowledge of royal houses parks and gardens. Shortly after arriving at Osborne she tours the adjacent gardens beginning with the myrtle planted from a sprig of the Empress Frederick wedding nosegay in 1858. The sprig grew into a bush supplying myrtle for royal bridal bouquets for forty years.
A boy asks a street urchin to hold a horse and offers twice the amount if the boy helps with a baby at his house. The exchange suggests a discussion of work prospects and compensation in a rough, street context.
An old advertisement promises cures from headaches to cancer by balancing bowel health with Cascarrets Candy Cathartic. It claims Cascarets start at 10 cents and feature metal boxes with a C C stamp, warning to beware of imitations.
A brief item from the Indianapolis Journal notes YT offered Uncle John a fancy start pin and hoped he would trim his long whiskers. Instead he braided them, keeping the facial hair as part of his appearance.
Promote Allen's Foot-Ease powder to cure foot soreness burning sweating and bunions. Shaken into shoes, 25c at druggists and shoe stores. Free sample by mail from Olmsted LeRoy New York.
A Chicago Record quip notes universities shape graduates who overestimate their knowledge. The joke contrasts the boastful graduate with a professor’s continued certainty, highlighting educational arrogance as a social theme.
A terse dialogue from the Syracuse Herald features a playful exchange about fortune and luck between two speakers. The brief remark hints at city life and local wit without further context or detail.
The General Passenger Department of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad released two free booklets. One covers hunting and fishing on the St Francis river in Northeastern Arkansas with abundant game. The other describes Chicago to Nashville points of interest and regional Indian legends. both include many half tone cuts.
Albany Times Union editorial hails New York Central's Mogul No. 948 hauling train No. 11 the Southwestern Limited 143 miles from New York to Albany in three hours and fifteen minutes. It praises the roadbed engineers and loyal staff from president Callaway to trackmen safeguarding travelers.
A playful exchange from a Philadelphia paper describes Aunt Mary sending a letter from Paris to Clara and Grace-Oh. The note hints at promised imported bathing suits and the scene reads like a social mention framed as light correspondence.
The De Laval cream separator received the Grand Prize from the International Jury of Awards at the Paris Exposition, ahead of many other separators from various countries. Lesser medals were awarded to several other makes of separators.
The sultan of Turkey says he has no ambition to join the great powers. He asserts his government is content to drift and be tolerated as a minor weakness by Europe.
In a Maggendorfer Blatter exchange Laura asks about coffee while Adolar waits. The wife responds the brew is already sketched in as if a drawing. A brief domestic vignette hints at creative tension between artist and spouse.
A series of letters from Ohio and Indiana women describe long standing female health issues including fatigue, nausea, and uterine and kidney troubles. They credit Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with significant relief and improved well being.
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