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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1901
Page
4
A speaker laments his past misdeeds and inner conflict seeking redemption. He contemplates heaven and hell, acknowledging flaws yet pleading for a chance to change. The voice asserts honesty about desire for virtue and a hope to climb toward forgiveness.
A memoir style tale follows a young lawyer in Hopetown musing on trust and love as Dorothy Shepard marries her cousin Reginald Pierce. In town, Mrs Farley seeks a photographed keepsake for her Western son, and the narrator resurrects a studio to photograph residents and visitors including a wagon wheel tintype scene with Dotty and her fiancé Mr Oakley.
A wary look at market tricks and con games used by fakers at country fairs. It details cane racks knife boards wheel of fortune and other outfit components, showing how ring theft, crooked odds, and manipulated boxes swindle patrons while promoters praise harmless fun.
Detroit Free Press recounts odd resorters with quirky habits. A fashionably dressed woman rejects rooms for mirrors she dislikes, a guest avoids male patrons seeking a nunlike solitude, and a stout guest pastes political tracts while others fear his bias. An old man hoards 29 journals, a silent lodger writes requests, and a beach neighbor collects sea water before bath.
Dorothy has been my wife for two happy years with one secret a belief she never betrayed me Reginald Pierce has taken the house opposite The twin Dorothys are inseparable friends in this intimate note of doubt and loyalty
In Sumatra natives build a wooden pen with a bait dog and a concealed steel trap. When a tiger steps on the platform, springs release and grip the leg, killing or trapping the animal while the dog is released. The trap is delicate enough to be sprung by a dog, ensuring quick capture.
A Navajo hunter details clever prairie dog trapping on the western plains. He notes the animal’s greed for fat, its habit of fleeing into burrows, and a mirror at the burrow entrance that lures the prairie dog to surface to confront its reflected image.
The Navajo use a rain hunt to drive prairie dogs from burrows. As summer rain falls, villagers dig trenches to divert water into burrows, flooding homes and forcing the animals to surface. Many are captured and eaten, providing sustenance for days.
In judging opals color drives value with red fire and combinations of red, yellow, blue, and green. Blue alone is weak. green requires vivid color and strong pattern. True color must be uniform, not streaked or patchy. Harlequin, pinfire, and flashfire patterns determine desirability, with harlequin popular and squares evenly spaced. Some stones display better on edge than on top.
The McKinley era began with Hobart precedence over ambassadors, as Lord Paugcefote reported. The foreign office reportedly inquired into the custom elsewhere and concluded Hobart would be heir to the Presidency on par with European royal princes. The note appears in a Ladies’ Home Journal excerpt alongside commentary on family life and societal trials.
A veteran New York correspondent recalls his first assignment on a Western daily. He stumbled into a breakthrough by following a postal card about property notices, gathering material against city officials until his column drew attention, led to follow ups, and launched a rise to night city editor.
A clipped reminiscence notes Rorance’s role in crafting the first story and recognizing early limits in newspaper reporting. The speaker reflects on discovering that initial methods would not advance future work, signaling growth and adaptation in journalistic craft.
The late Bishop Stubbs of Oxford was famed for wit without cruelty and a heartening manner. He joked about translations from Homer and mocked a pushy archdeacon, while praising a school prize tribute and defending friends with sharp, good humor.
A Santiago letter describes the Dolphin, nicknamed the Presidents yacht, launching a bold attack on land near a railroad bridge at Santiago. The ship breached a tunnel mouth by shelling rails and bed, detaching a piece of the bridge and trapping the train inside. The Dolphin claimed a prize but could not tow it to port.
Hoboken inventor Charlies A. Kueszel claims a dry nonexplosive gas can be made from eighty five parts air and fifteen parts kerosene. He says a gallon of kerosene with hot compressed air yields 1.44 cubic feet of gas, potentially cheaper than coal. He envisions gas for trains and ships, with broader uses to follow.
A dialogue reveals a playwright seeking director advice on plot and the manager’s guidance. The piece notes a girl’s troubled courtship and a man enticed by a pretty girl who fears the dark, reflecting light gossip on romantic plots.
A collage of wry quips and cartoonish vignettes from early 20th century humor pages. Jests span domestic foibles, clever retorts, and social misfires, featuring exchanges about husbands salaries meals and summer plans among unnamed urban crowds. Notable glimpses include a bride's wage remark and a minister's notes joke.
A collage of quips and wry vignettes from comic pages recounting gossip about celebrity misadventures, social foibles, and light satire. Notable puns and humorous exchanges touch on travel, marriage, and stock schemes, all delivered in a breezy period-press voice.
Two famous literary men pass a barber shop with a window sign reading First-Class Haircut, 15 Cents. One bald woman misreads it as 10 cents, but the other explains that with three pears left, a bald head is still first-class, and 15 cents is the price.
In the Soumerville Journal a witty exchange mocks a woman's expensive cloak as a new fashion. Another note adds a quip that philosophy cannot keep love from halting moral reasoning, yet love often disrupts philosophical thinking.
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