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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1902
Page
4
A verse from the Atlanta Constitution speaks of rest beyond hills and a dear companion. The narrator urges staying awhile to savor one more dream before departing life, with images of dawn, dew, and crowns for grief.
In a rural comedy, Colonel Bradlee and lawyer John Reed debate matching their children Lila and Billie. After scheming and quarrels, the couple elopes with a marriage license. The clan yields, as the lovers wed at the minister, and the Colonel reconciles with his daughter in a warm farmyard ending.
The Nantucket birthplace of Maria Mitchell, America's first woman astronomer, is to be preserved by Vassar alumnae. Mitchell taught at Vassar from 1865 until her death, discovered Maria Mitchell's comet, and was honored by the Danish king. The historic Nantucket house will become a museum with the upper floor for literary and astronomical use.
The piece condemns wealth indulgence and political corruption, citing Henry Cabot Lodge’s warning about the idle rich funding vice and undermining society. It notes Lodge as a polished, influential figure and describes the sociopolitical danger posed by ostentatious wealth and debauchery.
In New Mexico’s Rio San Francisco valley Cowboys uncover dugouts and cellars filled with earth not local to the sites. Skeletons of an extinct indigenous people lie in crouched or seated positions amid pottery and tools. The New York Times notes a volcanic gas event and mud flow that buried the valley, preserving remains and artifacts in ancient dwellings.
Portable school houses introduced from Paris to relieve overcrowding in St. Louis and other cities. Twenty seven portables in use in St. Louis with frames and movable sections, heated by a furnace, costing about 800 dollars each, rented to districts facing sudden overcrowding.
The Empress Dowager of China begins a girls school inside the palace at Peking. Ten daughters of princes will study there with a female English teacher. The aim is to prepare interpreters for entertaining foreign ministers and wings of diplomacy.
A stark epitaph declares that anyone living up to its words is a dead man. The terse line suggests a fatalistic warning or testament to a hardened figure, conveying menace and a possible frontier or noir mood.
A nostalgia filled portrait of Sir Edwin Landseer highlighting his bond with dogs. An anecdote recalls landseer’s remark on dogs rights and suffering from confinement, plus a vivid scene at his St Johns Wood home where a mastiff greeted him as an old friend. Queen Victoria is noted as a possible admirer of his insight into canine hearts.
Clubwomen in several states push forest preservation. Pennsylvania leads in acres saved with 700000 protected, Wilkes-Barre group helps by hiring a forester. Maine Maryland Delaware New Jersey Wisconsin Minnesota figures noted with efforts to fund parks and plant trees amid evergreen loss. Chronic truth telling link concludes.
A fragmented artifact combining lines from Land o the Leal and Abou Ben Adhem with garbled text and misrendered names. Includes verses on love, fate, and piety attributed to Lady Nairne and Leigh Hunt, with disrupted phrases and capitalization errors from a historical page. The readable portions reference old Scottish songs and classic poetry motifs.
An inventive quick fastening for shoes allows rapid tightening by pulling lace ends, using short and long leather loops with curved metal tubes to pressure the upper along the full length. Invented by Milton M. Brown of Washington DC.
The goosefish is described as a voracious, cannibal predator with a cavernous mouth and elastic rods that lure prey. Reports note its tendency to swallow large creatures, even fish and birds, and its habit of camouflaging at the sea bottom. The creature’s infamous appetite and deceptive ambush methods are detailed with varied local names and sightings.
Chicago Tribune reports that in downtown construction the rush to finish buildings forces unsafe conditions. Multiple trades work on many floors with loose planking, creating hazards from falling tools and incomplete floors, while foremen face limited recourse to halt dangerous overlaps.
A growing tree in Eisenthal Austria was converted into newspaper in under a day. At 7 am the tree was cut down, at 024 the bark stripped wood became pulp and paper, and by 10 am the paper was printed and sold on the wires.
A rapid one motion shoe fastener with telescoping slide and projecting studs on the upper edges promises quick closure without binding. Invented by John F. Hawkes of Jersey City, it adapts to lace secured shoes and emphasizes ankle movement.
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