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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1902
Page
11
A collage of opinions and anecdotes from Eugene Weekly Guard with miscellaneous notes on Mrs Langtry Miss Stone a pickle trust Noahs ark and Charles Schwabs apple gift. The piece blends satire about crime wealth celebrity and everyday dreams with reflections on media power and human memory.
The piece contrasts belief in prophecies with modern views of kingship, then recounts the Marysville real estate dealer Hawkins who forged $2000, fled, hid, and returned to surrender. It urges that justice and conscience pursue crime, noting that what a man sows, he reaps, across divine and human law.
Maurice Cannon, famed as the world’s heaviest man, died of heart disease in San Francisco after a period of illness. Weighing about 013 pounds, the Zurich native was considered a top athlete and wrestler who began rapid growth years ago while living a Bohemian, good-natured life.
The piece collects verses about Widow Malone and the Little Boy Blue in a nostalgic, lyric tone. It recalls a Cork Athlone era romance and the toy world of a child, weaving Irish songdom with memory. The poems juxtapose courting, innocence, and enduring mementos across characters and eras.
The noted physician Zimmer man visited Frederick the Great at his Inst Ulness. During a tale titled Salad for the Social the King asked how many he had helped move to another work. The doctor replied with tactful praise and humility, saying not as many as the king and less honor to himself.
A satirical quip from Detroit Free Press contrasts a child’s claim to identity with a farmer calling him the devil for eating apples. It then notes the gap between what a politician says and what he does, implying public speech versus action.
A colossal Epyornis egg was found in St Augustine Bay Madagascar prompting German explorer Gottlieb Adolf Krause to lead a Madagascar interior expedition. Scientists debate if the egg is recent or centuries old while reports speak of the bird once standing about fifteen feet tall and weighing over a ton.
Awakened by the finding of the new eee the trials the expedition will face include inhospitality of inhabitants scorching heat water scarcity malarial swamps and dangers of traversing primeval tropical forests Two other parties seeking the epyornis died in the deserts of Kiliarivo but with Krause and his team’s better equipment officials expect discoveries proving or disproving the bird’s existence German researchers aim to venture beyond the Ouilahy river into the wilds.
A fashionable crowd fills a Manhattan streetcar as a woman wears a diamond set key on a chain. Observers imagine a romance behind the prosaic keepsake, while a second woman jokes about wardrobe theft revealing the key’s true meaning and the era’s romantic mood.
A historical anecdote details a 19th century Abyssinian king Menelek reacting with polite interest to a French envoy's gifts. a sporting gun, a small cannon, and a musical box are shown, and Menelek crowed a collection of weapons in his private armory. The tale, cited by Hugues Le Roux in a travel book, argues for tempered zeal in spreading European civilization.
Sherlock Holmes examines a murder scene at Lauriston Gardens with Gregson and Lestrade. A dead man lies in a sparsely furnished room as Holmes notes footprints, a wedding ring, and a blood marked wall while hinting at a woman named Rachel and a later poison-based conclusion.
A Baltimore American passage discusses a grammar lesson where students parse the word mountain as a common feminine noun. The dialogue contrasts sentence structure with gender notes and reflects on self-correction and the value of precise language.
The Philadelphia Record surveys inmates’ handiwork in an eastern penitentiary, noting mantelpieces crafted from old prison trousers, a gilt newspaper-bracket with a stuffed animal, newspaper mosaics, reed wall art with 200 colored birds, and intricate checkerboards and chessmen rivaling Oriental craftsmanship.
A Brook lyn priory school student asks to leave at 2 PM citing a mother's note to visit New York. The teacher questions the reason and finally grants permission after the boy explains his cousin is dead. The exchange shows strict school discipline and parental request.
An interview recounts Rear Admiral Schle describing ship life with humor about queer sailors, noting loyalty. He tells of a landsman who impressed him, and a gale at sea prompting the watchman to report the wind direction and how it affected the ship.
A statement claims Prof Bert G Wilder received over 100 bequests of brains from highly educated individuals through a novel form of will and testament he drafted and had signed. The tale centers on a controversial and sensational endowment practice attributed to Wilder and his associates.
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