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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1902
Page
9
An item from the Eugene Weekly Guard notes Campbell Llos as proprietor, with references to Eugene. The notice confirms ownership and association with the weekly publication in Eugene.
Count Bon de Castellane’s overcoat cost eleven thousand dollars while his new corsets lack a price. Secretary Wyndham predicts an end to the Irieh row and appears fatigued. New York granted sixty four divorces in one day leaving many unsatisfied. Sir Henry Irving promises a return next year. A practical joker attached a crab to a man’s tail and was kicked to death. Antitoxin cures rattlesnake bites but won’t likely advance in Kentucky. A preacher says the Ten Commandments are outdated though a few remain wise. South of the equator politicians discuss US or South America with Chill’s union proposal teased in Santiago. Carnegie asks how five to ten million dollars should fund model housing for the poor, linking housing to moral aspiration with Booth.
Literary Paris buzzes over a girl of ten who allegedly wrote seven plays five novels and a volume of poems. Prodigy tales spark curiosity and admiration for young talent, while Johnson’s remark on performance echoes the surprise at any achievement beyond lived experience.
The piece condemns hazing as cowardly and lawless while describing an Aldershot experiment where artillery guns painted in bright colors blended with the background and remained hidden from observers. It then discusses expanding photography use in railroading for construction records, rules illustration, and operator training with image archives of tracks, grades, crossings, trains, and various scenarios.
The Australian federation faces unrest as Premier Robert Philp notes real opposition within Queensland and hints that New South Wales and Western Australia share hostility to continuing the union. The article compares this crisis to Canada’s earlier federation turmoil, suggesting precedent for dissension within empires.
A New York courtroom feature on handwriting analysis questions its status as an exact science. The cross examiner probes whether handwriting reflects probability and if expert drawings differ from originals, noting temper and pen factors affect legibility and truth. The piece ends with a quip on judges and professors calling handwriting a probabilistic science.
A discussion on submarine cables notes depths of 40200 feet in the South Atlantic and 27480 feet in the North Atlantic. It explains that cable routes favor submarine table lands between Ireland and France and that expert crews, guided by mapped seabed features, lay cables along planned paths with specialized cable types. The piece also mentions domestic economy advice urging parents to gift children banks as curiosities for guests to inspect.
Frances Macnab describes Morocco's sole man of war where German officers enforce order while Moors aboard refuse to obey. The crew changes every three days, pays generous, three months on shore, and colonial quirks shelter indolence. Disobedience persists despite German supervision and pasha mediation.
The memoirist Mrs. Grant of Laggan, a noted literary figure of the early 1800s, recalls a public tower show in which she attended unbonneted with only a cap. She describes a comical mis sight involving a fellow spectator during a spectacle aided by mirrors and her own delayed self recognition.
A Detroit Free Press note recalls Tom Edison once a tramp telegrapher who, visiting a doctor friend, quips that he was a dispatcher too. The doctor explains the banquet is for medical men, and Edison replies with humor about his past job.
A Baltimore News column humorously muses that marriage exposes how easy it is to land in trouble. It jokes about a man-faced with creditors and imagines a dog with a tin can tied to its tail to savor sensations. The piece reflects on peculiar experiences with kitchen staff and their relatives over the back fence.
The London tailor notes some men always wear a coat of mall in their wardrobe and many tailors regularly make them for customers. People crave healthful food to stay warm and cut coal use. What should you do with the cone at your house.
The desert tale follows a trapper who battles Indians to rescue Bertha Lyle. He surveys Follett and his crew, hides above rimrocks, and plans a nighttime return to safety with the captor’s aid. The pursuit tightens as trackers close in on his home with the girl vulnerable.
Old Indian scout Egan and his war party stalk a desert trapper cave to recover a captive. As dawn reveals the hidden camp, a sly ambush unfolds with arrows and rifles from rimrock sentries, forcing a tense standoff and brief truces before a relief party signals retreat.
In a ranch at night the Lord of The Desert plans vengeance and a murder plot. Dan Follett, trusted by the lord, is tasked to lure Warm Springs warriors to seize Fenn’s ponies as part of a long running feud over a disputed inheritance.
An aggregation of science notes notes on irrigation pumps in Texas and Louisiana supporting rice farming, explanations of a French term for light phenomena and a Cornell liquid air experiment, plus mountaineering feats in the Himalayas and German chimney science to cut urban smoke.
Aberdeen Ohio claims the Wisewall property on East Front Street as one of the oldest houses in the United States. Built of rock, it has withstood over fifty Ohio River floods, remaining intact and firm for over 200 years as generations have treasured the famous residence.
A fashion magazine tone notes young ladies at a school resisting arithmetic review. A teacher teases a student about needing to know subtraction and multiplication to handle money. A New York Evening article cites odd exam answers and a patrolman’s method question. Trained cats become a Paris fashion fad, with society figures paying high sums for pets trained by experts.
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