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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1902
Page
6
A local guard cadet unit completed a drill exercise focusing on discipline, formations, and unit coordination. Cadets emphasized teamwork, punctuality, and precision in synchronized movements during a morning session at the city training grounds.
A curious collage notes water power in the Philippines and U S fertility, Sydney’s growing banner, San Francisco saloon density, Tyrolean grape influx, Afghanistan’s new ameer opposing missionary entry, and ink dating from 1798 tracing Dr. Lewis, plus France and Italy baking the world’s largest loaves often six feet long.
Three Vermont Republicans, all millionaires, vie for the guber to suggest auctioning the nomination to fund the state treasury. The piece laments modern politics and notes aging Civil War veterans dwindling in number while reporting a New York general has died at 75.5.
Up to March 1 Britain had spent about 1.1 billion dollars on the Boer war. The costly conflict required further large outlays to pacify the burghers after the bitter defeat.
King Edward, an avid fisherman, is usually joined by Queen Alexandra or a princess along the stream. The scene spoils the occasion, as a witness hails from his home for the so called bites he claims and the big fish always gets away with nothing to show for it.
Report warns of a coal supply shortage next winter due to the strike. Mineowners, not losing coal, plan price hikes, using the strike as a pretext for higher charges, aiming to profit from the disruption. In Douglas county Wilbur, a two month old dies after an apparent assault, with finger prints on the throat suggesting a troubling motive, though the mother has a strong reputation.
Final reports from Princeton University reveal that fifty three students failed to advance this May and June. Among them at least twelve are athletes involved in football, baseball, and track. The showing is poor for New Jersey’s leading university’s athletes.
Walla Walla County recently sent a sizable shipment described as eight carloads of emels. The move reflects a substantial dispatch by local suppliers and indicates strong activity in regional logistics.
Toe Shit of Peres, now touring Europe, gave a fifteen thousand dollar luncheon yesterday. Luc Porte land tourest notes twenty-five different states represented on hotel registers from yesterday.
The deceased Vineries Fair and his wife died in a road accident as their car sped to a halt. Relatives, though wealthy, faced the probate court over claims to the estate.
Noted bead-waser Sauwuer Prayer dies in St Louis amid his life’s work in music. Members of his band request that some of his own compositions be played as he passed away.
Phil Rogoway of Pournaid is absent with no apparent reason. He served as city license collector and left several hundred dollars of official collections unpaid to the city treasurer, creating a minor public finance lapse.
Police report a Black man killed his White wife in Whitechapel Portland yesterday. He had previously supported her but grew jealous and prepared the rope before the crime.
Fragments indicate the town clock face is obscured from the street by a maple tree at the corner near City Hall. The plan calls for trimming the tree to restore visibility, removing the top growth to reopen the view.
An automobilist ran one thousand yards near London in twenty eight and one fifth seconds, a time that implies a mile in fifty seconds and a speed of sixty four miles an hour. He had a perfect track for the run.
Decreased receipts and increased expenditures strain the national and individual levels, yielding a distressing shortfall for the treasury. The latest deficit reaches the considerable sum of 12,125,000 dollars.
The presidents of the railroads owning coal mines signal a preference to deal directly with the miners rather than through representatives. Miners counter that they would rather negotiate with railroad stockholders than with the railroad’s hired agents.
A reflective provincial piece notes that a year after President McKinley’s assassination at Buffalo the nation remains preoccupied with daily work and barely recalls the historic event. The author questions collective memory and emphasis on national tragedy fading from public attention.
The coal company controlling the anthracite region spent nearly two million dollars to hire five thousand special officers to guard properties. Miners idle, plants shut, and workers put on the idle list, making the strike costly for many beyond those directly involved.
A staff correspondent notes a striking coincidence in the Oregonian involving a combined harvester used in a Walla Walla field, partially republished today, and a telegraphic dispatch from Lecaster Pennsylvania reporting the death at eighty three of the grain cradle inventor, as the world quickens in this late century.
An early 20th century health advert explains that the army requires sound digestion and that indigestion weakens the body. It argues stomach strength governs nutrition, cites Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as restoring health, and warns that stomach disease affects heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys. It includes patient testimonials and promotes a medical adviser book.
The record lists county allowances dated to 1864 including witness fees for Tad Lockey 160, E J Lampshire 14, and multiple others. It notes payments for ferry labor, janitorial and county officer salaries, and deductions for prisoners. Also mentions compensation for clerks and a deputy sheriff and school superintendent salaries. A bereavement notice thanks friends for support.
Thurston, a reporter, pursues a Bohemian life with Mabel Manton in New York. Their flirtation blooms into love as they chase cheap tables and literary dreams, yet Mabel chooses career over marriage. An affordable supper at the Blue Ostrich ends with a plan to wed and leave Bohemia for a real home.
Notes on saffron prized for lungs and skin eruptions in old texts. It was valued as a tonic and stomach strengthener, though later deemed medicinally inert, now mainly a coloring and flavoring agent. Historical writers linked it to potions and even horse remedies, with wide shifts in official use over time.
The article warns pipe smokers face cancer at the lip from heated stems and on the tongue from smoke flow. It notes Paris data of 156 annual mouth cancer fires and suggests about 255,000 smokers, with only one death per thousand pipe smokers, stressing the serious but uncertain risk.
Mrs Muggine Thet's hand injury worries residents as the Philadelphia Record notes concerns over the condition and potential impact. The article highlights public anxiety and community response to the incident.
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