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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1901
Page
8
A cryptic excerpt describes a lost garden in a distant south, with burning poppies and dim pathways, where a white wraith wanders and moss whispers. Shadows beckon, oleanders fade, and the speaker laments never finding the garden again as love lies dead.
In the Huxbridge embroidery circle, Mrs. Sartoris, a young widow, becomes a social target after moving in with her child. Mrs. Hemenway resents her and accuses her of neglect while vying for her son Guy. Gossip spreads until Mrs. Sartoris contracting smallpox forces isolation, and she ultimately ends up caring for Mrs. Hemenway’s comfort alongside her own child.
The Hub Motor Transit Company plans electric street obuses to carry forty plus passengers on routes from Jackson Boulevard to Lincoln Park. Each thirty foot vehicle uses four wheel hub motors and solid rubber tires with electric heating for cab, seating all around. End of run charges storage battery. service expected to extend into central city with multiple routes.
The article extols the road runner as Arizona’s deadly foe to rattlesnakes, noting heavy legal penalties for hunters protecting the bird. It describes road runners attacking even large rattlers, and cites the king snake as another formidable enemy, with snakes slain by terrain and climate shifts.
A New England insurer’s canvasser profited by trailing active fires and after suppression offered policies to remaining tenants in tenement blocks. Competitors investigated his method and discovered he specialized in following fire engines and insuring other residents once flames were subdued.
After a blaze, agents rush to poach insured victims for new policies. One broker notes that within a neighborhood seventy policies were written in a single fire and urges agents to strike while the iron is hot, warning not to discuss with neighbors during the blaze but to push once engines depart.
Philip C Shaffer of Philadelphia has been elected imperial potentate of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. A longtime Mason and Shriners officer, he has served as Oriental Guide and temple potentate in Lu Lu temple and is prominent in Philadelphia furniture trade.
John Chandler of Allen County heads a vast clan fathering 29 children, 21 living with families and averaging five offspring each for 102 descendants total. At 75, he reads current events without glasses, hunts squirrels, and shifted allegiance from Whig Taylor in 1848 to the Democratic ticket. His wife, three years his senior, remains hearty. The Tuskegee Institute for colored students began in a tiny shack with one teacher and 30 pupils, now serving about 1,100 students and 80 instructors with property valued at 250000 dollars and 48 buildings. Most structures were built by student labor. United States Treasurer Roberts notes increased use of cents and nickels.
A collage of science notes on solar angles Renaissance ideas and animal eggs, plus a London electric arc music demonstration. Also a harsh, dramatised sheriff’s court fragment orders Jose Marie Martin hanged by the neck after mixed religious guidance and judge’s stern warnings.
A Taos County murder case yields a vivid death sentence recitation by Judge Benedict. He describes Jose Maria Martin as indicted and convicted, then details the grave duty and springtime imagery before pronouncing the execution date and secure confinement.
The Italian brig Anita S. earned fame as the slowest sailing vessel, twice reported lost on voyages from South America to Baltimore, and recently reached Nantes from Martinique after a ten month voyage. Its crews endured leaks, missing navigators, and sick officers while the tiller-steered brigantine carried cargo across long hauls, with coppered hull and sturdy Italian oak frames remaining sound since 1876.
A Washington Post report notes rapid modernization in Palestine and Syria. A Joppa to Jerusalem rail experiment turns profitable, lines planned to link key biblical sites. Jerusalem gains electric lights telephones phonographs plumbing and modern stores. Trolley lines may connect Jerusalem to Bethany Bethlehem Galilee and other historic places. Modern amenities threaten the old Palestine landscape.
A Ceylon tree known as the forbidden fruit or Eve’s apple-tree bears a striking orange fruit with a bite mark absent inner redder flesh. Its poisonous quality led Mohammedans to call it Eden’s fruit, blaming Eve for the missing bite and misfortune.
The Philadelphia Press notes he is sparing yet rewards himself during holidays and Sundays by reading select recipes from a cook book, describing him as generally frugal but willing to indulge at these times.
A humorous urban vignette describes a reformed man bragging about quitting smoking and saving money, then a bank failure interrupts the tale. A quick aside in a dialogue reveals a quip about a man asking for a loan and the eccentric exchange ends with a sister hair joke in a Philadelphia Record item.
A clipped Chicago Tribune exchange shows a sharp reply over earnings and luck in a brief confrontation. The parties trade lines about profits and blame with a pointed jibe about a year’s net and a planning misstep.
In a playful exchange from Life magazine, a tease about a woman's age prompts a cautious reply that she is at the age when one doesn't reveal it, underscoring the era's polite evasions and social mystery.
Fragment from Chicago Tribune and Philadelphia Press excerpts shows a wary woman rebuking a guest named Tufford Knott for lingering. dialogue reveals class tensions, accusations of tramp status, and a nod to domestic roles amid tales of custody and family labor.
A collage of brief humor snippets and quips from various papers noting light exchanges about weddings learning aging and small misunderstandings. The items show playful banter and character sketches such as Skewjaw the recluse clarinetist and a tease about a spouse cooking and life insurance.
A quirky exchange from early papers notes Misa Possey claiming shoes never fit her while a companion teases she enjoys visiting a shoe store to be at a young man’s feet. The Detroit and Philadelphia clippings also mention hats and playful banter.
A fragmented dialogue features a family moment as a character remarks on lounging in ham mocks and another defends front-porch use. The strange exchange evokes domestic humor with playful, archaic phrasing and a sense of rural life.
A collage of light quips and social banter from various papers shows a clumsy tax on conversation. Lines mock etiquette and social roles with quick punch lines, including a teasing exchange about recommendations and a shy flirtation gone awry.
In a short exchange Polly curiously asks what Dolly likes about croquet. Dolly answers the game offers loneliness and restfulness, letting even the least adept player feel competent and unpressured.
A brief exchange from Punch captures a domineering mother complaining about her daughter Jane being late and behind. The mother threatens to hire another girl while Jane retorts that there would be plenty of work for both.
A buyer pressures the seller to inspect the horse recently sold, expressing surprise that the animal remains alive and prompting a retrospective, wry exchange about the animal’s fate.
A newspaper note recalls a superstition about brides and grooms where tossing an old shoe after the couple is believed to wash away ill will. If the shoe strikes the bride, the omen shifts to a playful but tense moment.
The passage presents a playful exchange among Penelope Perdita and others as they discuss marriage and finances. The Mother affirms a dutiful daughter and the characters speculate on the amount needed to marry, joking about amiability and exams.
In a brisk moralized exchange from New YorkWeekly style humor, characters discuss athletics taste and domestic goods prejudice. Mrs Willoughby’s import bias is ridiculed while imported husband jests surface. Jinks and Gruff seek etiquette lessons and polite treatment, reflecting light social critique in a columnish vignette.
Frees and his son Louis hunted rabbits near Parkersburg. While dislodging a rabbit with a pole, the gun resting on the ground discharged when the rabbit ran out, striking Louis in the leg and wounding the dog. The rabbit escaped amid the commotion.
A brief quote notes that a hungry man may claim appetite to eat a horse, yet his wife knows he will fault the meal if not perfect. The piece reflects a humor tone about expectations at dinner and domestic wit from the Somerville Journal.
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