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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1902
Page
12
Mayor Swink of Rocky Ford Colorado says his town will send a massive bee display to the St Louis World’s Fair. About 5 500 000 bees will work from open to close. A miniature Colorado State will be built to tour Denver.
A writer declares more vice and filth in public places and works across the United States than in any leading nation, saying the U S ranks with Turkey rather than England or Germany in this regard, urging reform.
A bizarre old ad claims a powder cures measling and callouses for pets and people. It promises tight or new shots for underfoot care and lists Allen 8 Olmsted Le Roy New York as the address. Trial package offered free.
A boarding house scene ends with two men facing the unknown after a meal. A letter from Maple Street Norwich New York dated February 17, 1000 mentions Tam and Miso’s Cure for Consumption transforming life three years prior, in a terse, dated note.
A Cohoes resident questions golf's royal status and origin, saying he only heard of the game recently despite sixty years in the country. He argues it is not played in a royal court and defends the constitutional flag amid debate.
The speaker, addressing a physician, seeks a distraction to pass time. A blush ing and practical maiden speaks of a settled arrangement and consent to share a life, while considering practical steps like a house, as a way to cope. The dialogue hints at future plans and mutual commitment.
Great Britain and Ireland import about 265 million pounds of cheese annually. Canada supplies about sixty percent of the total.
The article describes eczema as a torturous condition caused by an acid humor in the blood. It details severe itching burning, redness, weeping discharge that dries to scales, and painful fissures. Salves and washes fail because the poison remains in the blood.
Rene Bache reports on a vast new government printing office nearing completion. The building will cost about $2,000,000, cover more than fourteen acres, and employ around 3,880 people with heavy female staffing. It will house 127 presses, produce about 1,000,000 impressions daily, and print the Congressional Record plus millions of bill copies annually.
The Salton salt beds lie about 300 feet below sea level as a vast snow field. Spanning around 1,000 acres, the rock salt is commercially mined yielding about 2,060 tons yearly valued at 6 to 34 dollars per ton. Labor is mainly done by Indians who endure desert heat up to 16 degrees in June, with a four wheel plough guided by an Indian rider pulling salt into ridges and pyramids.
In a sunlit lobby, half a dozen House leaders gathered as the Spellbinders Trust was formed to plan the coming campaign. Charles Littlefield of Maine opened with a self deprecating anecdote about his vigor and memory, recalling journeys from Beattle to Bospert as he urged members to remember constituents at home.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt recalls a Michigan deacon refusing a $1500 peach sale offer, preferring Providence and ending with drought ruin. Anecdotes cover lawyer O Conor, Lord Spencer’s brie a brae china, Queen Alexandra childhood, and views on wedding kinship.
A Tenants' Protective League report details a harsh case in Peckham where a widow on an annual 29 pound tenancy was charged quarterly in advance. She moved in without prepayment but faced demands on March 25 for the quarter due and the prepayment. Her home was stripped of almost all furniture while her daughter lay dying of cancer. A broker visited again last Saturday for a second demand.
Captain G. Bertoletto of the Italian barque Lincelles reports in Pensacola that chronic stomach catarrh, unrelieved by doctors, was cured after two bottles of Peruna. He endorses Peruna for catarrh anywhere and invites others to seek Dr. Hartman’s gratis advice if results are lacking.
Billy Coalgate relates a joke about a lady named Sandy Pikes. When told he was an old acrobat, she answers with a punchline about going to the woodpile to do the split. The exchange reflects regional dialect humor and character dialogue.
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