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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1901
Page
10
Readers are invited to a Saturday program featuring city and county events at notable venues. The schedule includes community gatherings, performances, and public displays with local organizations and authorities presenting activities for residents.
Joseph Ladue, founder of Dawson City and known as the Discoverer of the Klondike Gold Fields, died at his Schuyler Falls home at 47 from consumption. He mapped Dawson City in 1896, built 175 acres, and formed the Joseph Ladue Gold Mining and Development Company. He married Kittie Mason in 1897. His health declined after prospecting in Alaska, with a later plan to seek relief in Colorado.
Dawson correspondent reports the beer market nearly exhausted with wholesale prices jumping from nine dollars to as high as 150 dollars per barrel. Most beer is pre contracted, with Roserthal and Field stating only four barrels remain uncontracted.
Baker City Republican notes Portland university sale to the Catholic church and proposed reopening as Columbia university. Argues Oregon needs stronger, fewer better institutions rather than many small colleges. Critiques scattered funding and the lack of a flagship grey college, urging a centralized effort.
The Mobile Register notes a shift in perception as Americans earn a reputation for durable domestic goods. English critics lament weak sales for their innovations, citing a Birmingham potato masher example, while praising American branding and mass production.
The American Sugar Refining Company lowers sugar price by half a cent per pound and plans further cuts aimed at beet sugar producers, viewed as rising rivals to the sugar trust.
The New York World partnership offers ten free issues of the Monthly World Magazine to subscribers of the WEEKLY GUARD and discounted access for DAILY GUARD readers. The 82 page Newark publication features romance travel science and art with renowned contributors and illustrated pages. order via postal card to Nadrews at GUARD Eugene.
Pure home made brandy advertised for liver kidney or stomach ailments. Priced 50 cents a quart or 2.50 a gallon. Orders filled promptly by express boxed securely. Made and sold to consumers only. Francis, Fifth and Blair streets Eugene Or.
A fragment from Harriet Prescott Spofford as reprinted in Collier's recalls a child in a blue sunbonnet watching swallows skim near her hand. The poem-memoir tone evokes longing for fairy folk and wings as she trudges through hills and dales, wondering why the fairy world remains out of reach.
An Armenian storyteller relays a Harper's Weekly tale about Allah and angels visiting multiple lands. They judge each world by railways, mills, ships, and galleries, finding Persia the only one where nothing has changed, questioning why America is unknown in Persia.
An old Morris county New Jersey school letter recounts log walls, sheep skin windows, and an hourglass timekeeper. Pupils drank from a cow horn tumbler or ground shell, yet the school shared the same great literary standards as today. The note highlights enduring literature across centuries.
A man struggles to charm a reserved maid with stories and a speech, but she rebuffs him with a sharp retort and he departs. The scene unfolds in a terse exchange ending in his awkward retreat. The piece reads as a brief, witty vignette from the New York Times archive.
In a Washington Star quote Miss Cayenne rejects constant compliments. She says praise signals amiable disposition but notes many offer what costs nothing and what they do not owe.
M Severiaro de Heredia, minister of public works in the Rouvier cabinet under M Grevy, a Cuban family member, faced mistaken Haitian guests at the Elysee as guards rushed and drums beat. The president greeted him with humor remarking he had turned the house upside down after only 24 hours in office. Chicago Herald.
An old New Orleans horseman recalls Kean the younger in Richard III causing a near panic by chasing a stage super with a sword. A lad in ragged costume fled two blocks through a dark alley after a gaudy banner misfired during a prank by a drunken stage manager.
Dr St O Mason cites a Bordeaux archbishop case from The Ladica ome Journal where a young seminary cleric awoke at night in a somnambulistic state to write and correct sermons. A cardboard shield between his eyes prevented vision, yet he produced legible pages and remembered nothing upon waking.
A humorous exchange from Tit-Bits describes an employer spotting Mr Redink leaving work early yesterday and noting a visit to the races. The clerk deflects, claiming illness only after the second race, hinting at a lighthearted workplace anecdote from the era.
A quoted editorial note declares it folly to try pleasing all and notes that any direction a man faces forces him to turn his back on half the world. It adds a remark on wood’s strength rising with density.
The piece satirically portrays Old Moneybags weary of calls for sharing wealth as he complains about seasonal delicacies and storage costs. It notes his belief that the poor should not benefit from his resources and hints at class tension in a city setting.
Subbate asks why the suburban home is being left as Hubbubs answers he is run down. Neighbors gossip frame the discussion in a Pilladelphia Record style context.
In Cole county, Judge Krekel sentences Brown to jail until educated in reading and writing and orders Jones to assist. After a term, Brown proves literacy by reading aloud and writing a letter with clerk dictation, then both men are discharged as free citizens.
Observations show prawns along English coasts alter color at least twice every 24 hours to match surface or deeper water conditions. As evening nears they shift from day colors to azure, then reddish glow to green tinge, with color cycles continuing even under perpetual light or darkness.
A. Bronson Alcott notes that a man who eats beef becomes like an ox, mutton yields a sheepish nature, and pork may render him swinish. Dr. Walker counters that a man living only on vegetables tends to be pretty small potatoes.
A 100 square inch funnel collects direct rainfall, guiding water to a tube scaled to the funnel area. If the tube shows one inch, it means one tenth inch of rain. Larger funnels yield more precise results, and roof gauges often record less due to air moisture and drop size.
A discussion of deer horns and their unique growth patterns describing how horns sprout from the brain, penetrate bone, and bear marks of age. It notes the horn’s peculiar properties, resistance to decay, and relation to reproduction, presenting observations on this unusual biological phenomenon.
A reflective note on audience fascination with drama explains that Shakespeare’s line All the world s a stage captures why people crave dramatic statements. The piece argues that politics and creed popularity rely on dramatized form and that the gospels endure because they are conveyed in a dramatic moral frame.
An 17th century account describes John Simons of Berkshire born without arms or hands. He reportedly could write with his mouth, thread a needle, tie a knot, shuffle, cut and deal a pack of cards. The exhibit occurred in London in 1653 under the term artificial change ling.
A fragment from a New York Weekly column jokes about hitting a wall with a hammer and the unsavory remark of someone insultingly labeling another as horrid and selfish for the task, reflecting sharp social wit.
A Boston Transcript quip notes a young lady’s request for hand care. It references questionable good sense about hand whitening. The piece also lists water boundaries of France with lengths along Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts and channels and straits.
A brief Atchison Globe quotation urges balancing self care with helping others, warning against neglecting personal well being while assisting others.
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