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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1900
Page
9
Eugene Weekly Guard quips on high society manners and chaperones plus humor on age honesty and jokes. It cites Helen Gould, Hetty Green, Mr. Astor and Chinese names with light social observations and a critique of legal cases and sanity ideas from London Truth and Century Magazine through brief commentary.
The article describes Mormon migration to Northern Sonora and Chihuahua belated by 1889 colonization efforts. It highlights eight colonies including Colonia Juarez and Dublan, with nearly 5,000 people. Colonists practice irrigation farming, build schools, maintain tithing stores, and operate a cooperative economy requiring 10 percent tithes and 8 percent self-imposed academy taxes. The communities emphasize thrift, education, and mutual labor, contrasting with harsher frontier conditions and limited policing.
A hostess in London planned a twelve serving of scalloped oysters but one shell vanished. She decided eleven would suffice and avoided oysters. While chatting she realized she had served herself an oyster, and her footman gently reminded her the doctor forbade oysters, in quiet reproach.
A Louisiana funded sword presented to General Scott after the Mexican War prompts a reminiscence. Scott praises the sword but quips the inscription should have been on the blade. The scabbard cost most of the roughly five hundred dollar expense, with its finish praised as richly chased.
A reader recalls war reports mentioning foreign names from memory of a red brick schoolhouse on a hill. The exchange lists Yang-tse-Kiang, Hoang, Wo, Irragmaddy, Pascamquoddy, Memphremagog, Beloothistan and Spencatcles as examples.
A grand opera singer states that lemon juice does not relieve slight hoarseness for long. The strong acid can harm vocal chords, offering only a brief temporary effect.
Public ovens blanket most residential streets of 1q cities enabling residents to have dinners and suppers cooked for them at trading expense.
A woman envisions a personal revenge by preparing several sandwiches and inviting friends, delivering a quiet, surprisingly satisfying retribution. The plan centers on social sting rather than violence, emphasizing cleverness and domestic action.
The Forum notes land between King William's statue and Trinity square rose to £30 per inch and £191,000,000 per acre, the highest England land price. A Southeastern Railway bid of $65,000,000 per acre for Bermondsey ground failed though shallow. In 1880 Cannon Street sold at 33 a square foot, six years later 75.
An ingenious statistician claims lifespan equals (86 minus current age) divided by 2. He illustrates with a 50 year old and asserts survival probabilities from age 60 to 70, 80, 90, and centenarians are low. A circle counters that the figures seem convincing yet may be flawed.
Owen B. Watkins recalls how Egyptians and Arabs reacted to a railroad during Kitchener’s Sudan campaign. The railway battalion faced mock awe at the engine’s water appetite. Arabs protested overloading and warned a driver not to allow a wife under the engine, believing it would bless her married life.
A reader argues that marriage of novelist Paul Leicester Ford hurts his book sales, recalling Richard Harding Davis whose marriage allegedly diminished his popular appeal among young women readers. The exchange treats enduring celebrity and market impact of authors in society.
A New York lawyer of note lives in an old mansion with his sister. She tells a humorous tale of his calmness as she suspects burglars. A midnight intruder tries a back yard door. the lawyer warns him that the door slides back and will not open that way.
A Colorado Springs mining stock episode ends with the death of a mine owner and stock manipulator. The local press shifts from a dramatic headline to a sharper one, revealing the community’s view of his dealings as predatory. The piece highlights how widespread mining fever had become and hints at the peril felt by investors and partners alike. The observed change in framing reflects the public mood toward a notorious figure in the mining field.
The passage captures Gabriel declaring time to blow the last trump as he plays the ace of spades to save the trick for himself and St Peter and the angels, a scene of celestial whimsy amid a card game.
A jumbled nineteenth century fragment cites a woman named Hewitt and a confrontation about kissing the cook. It mentions plans to retrace a wrong step, pursue proper action, and maintain a purely unselfish motive, though the text is incomplete.
A jumble of jokes and quips notes lighthearted cheery sayings from around the world and punchlines about revolutions weather doctors and domestic life. The snippets include playful dialogue about a spouse buying a useless item and a railroad traveler’s cautionary tale.
A snippet from Life magazine features a quip where a patient complains of a complication of diseases and a doctor counters with a pun, saying the trouble is a complication of doctors. The dialogue highlights humor in medical misfortune.
A playful exchange about Miss Rockingham brushing off a caller with a remark about eating green onions. The man says he told her not to mind and that he could stay away to avoid disturbance, reflecting light gossip tone from the Chicago Times-Herald.
A brief humor item from the Chicago Record presents a workplace exchange where an employer offers nothing, and an office boy counters with half wages to stay home until work returns. The witty dialogue reflects idle days and wage tensions in a light manner.
Eaton Shabbelong asks for change for a quarter and accidentally catches a stroke of luck. Tuff ord Knott reacts with disgust, wondering why he would carry the thirst he has, in a scene captured by the Chicago Tribune.
A brief exchange mocks lack of resources as Kruger faces a political jab. The piece notes Kruger's heightened effort, attributing his renewed vigor to being sidelined by the empress dowager, who has reduced his public visibility.
A brief line from Exiled Bette notes Pamela’s stay in the country. Pamela complains that country life scuffs her shoes, revealing family tensions and social expectations within a light gossip item. The exchange captures a tease about manners and travel.
A dialogue shows Juliet and Jack in Chicago where Juliet proclaims she never gave Jack a letter to mail and traps him as he fumbles in his pocket recalling plans to mail once downtown. The scene captures a playful urban exchange in a newspaper clipping style.
In a cryptic line from Puck, Lenorance is challenged as not being the true master of the house. The speaker warns that happiness follows those who avoid deceit, hinting at shifting power dynamics within the household.
In a witty exchange, Pieans Gang notes Mrs Brown and Mrs Jones declaring they would follow a husband to death. They recall a month since his passing while Mrs Smith quips about not following until the Paris exposition ends. The judge remarks on always finding something to distract.
A garbled OCR shows overheard remarks and dialogue about fashion, weather, plans, and social situations. The text mentions Miss Gilgal Sylvania, a Triplett-Tyq reference, and comments on garden party decor, rent worries, and a heartbroken mood among conversational pieces.
Fragmented OCR shows a satirical exchange about a storm center and a door being answered by a Chicago Tribune reader. The text references Silas Hayrick-Weall and a comic exchange about charges and five children, with an engaging smile and a blunt door reply.
A fragmentary quirky dialogue references Mrs Gabbleby and Mr Hoon with remarks about imagination and misfortune, preserving odd phrasing and character names from the damaged text. The line hints at humor and social satire within a disrupted newspaper snippet.
The text presents odd dialogue between Boston and Kate about manners and questions of propriety. Characters discuss playful or improper behavior, with Mr. Callipers and Little Clarence weighing in on family humor and expectations.
A garbled clipping depicts a fleeting scene about Japanese resistance and a jokey exchange involving four people and a rickshaw. The text fragments reference Emperor, subjects, and American impressions, but the overall meaning remains unclear and incomplete.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions land, twenty, kin, and a ydl a table. The readable content is too incomplete to identify people places or an event. The item appears to be a damaged local notice or brief classified segment with unreadable details.
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