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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1902
Page
10
A damaged OCR fragment references a storm impacting a ferry route and ship activity. It mentions officials or papers, a transport concern, and partial details about the event with scattered names and numbers, leaving the core facts unclear.
A dated critique notes four years after the Philippines invasion inactivity and slow adoption of American ways. It cites rising food prices, limited American capital, and a lack of new business investment while detailing social customs, shop life, and dining hours in Manila. The piece weaves in anecdotes about Bellairs and Diana Huntingdon as well as quips on local manners and misanthropy.
A fable from The Outlook where the Nickel and Penny boast of superiority over the dime and gold dollar. The Cent and Nickel learn the world values the Double Eagle’s stance: true worth is measured by what you really are, not by bluff or shine.
In a tense night-before-sale scene, Diana Huntingdon declares she will buy the notorious Demon Dandy despite her brother Huntingdon and Bellairs opposing. Bellairs' risky ride ambitions fuel the confrontation as Diana’s will power clashes with family protocol.
A satirical scene portrays Burghminster matrons with marriageable daughters denouncing a woman hater’s ownership of Bellairs home. They advocate a heavy tax to curb bachelorhood while he is lured into discreet woods by dovelike eyes and tender refusals at every obstacle. Only a single spectator sits on the stile as the brook continues to mock hopeful matchmakers.
A New York Commercial Advertiser piece describes West Indian beliefs including werewolf like creatures and the rolling calf. It details the obeah man, his fearsome appearance, British penalties of flogging and imprisonment, and how plantations use fear to deter theft.
The piece traces the historical grand mastership of the Golden Fleece from Bruges to Austria and Spain, then shifts to a scientific note on galactose in cheese and a lengthy, dated guide to forecasting thunderclouds. It details storm formation, clouds, electricity, and the meteorology of lightning with period diction.
A London paper warns that a popular new drug marketed as a substitute for sleep endangers health, with the publication declining to name the substance. It notes tea’s early praised sleep-saving role and warns against long-term wakefulness and nervous breakdown. Ham smells better when fried than it tastes when served.
An old St. Louis riverman recounts why Mark Twain never became a Mississippi river pilot. Twain licensed as a pilot but never stood a night watch alone, a fire scare sparked by a fellow officer leading to a dramatic alarm and his exit from river life. The tale shifts to Mrs. Armour who, after goats and mountain life, builds a thriving ranch employing twenty goatherds, funding her eldest son's college and her other children in Kingston.
Mrs Armour of Sierra County New Mexico owns over 25000 Angora goats earning about 25000 annually. Her prized Columbia Pascha, valued at 1500, is the nation's finest Angora. Widowed in 1500 with small children, she received aid from ranch workers and miners before she rebuilt her fortunes.
In a London Mallon lecture a Chicago audience hears about thousands of tons of machinery in U S rubbish heaps that would last longer in England and Wales. The talk notes Chicago steel workers leaving gigs after Sunday pay, driving home in work clothes, comparing Rhondda colliers’ routine.
Farmers in Alabama total 223 220 with 129 137 operated by white farmers and 4 08 by colored farmers. An old bachelor, when he feels blue, regrets he has no wife to whine to. A man usually does his best or worst.
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