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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1900
Page
10
Fragmented notices claim Pinkharm’s advice medicine has long helped strength and vitality. Other garbled lines discuss tariffs, coast state relevance, a 15 year term in Oregon’s entrury, barred German mail, and a stray sausage mention. The text is irregular and hard to parse.
A San Fraccisco business man pays a five cent revenue stamp on a shipping tax matter while Portland Fire Department explores building a fire boat to guard the Willamette docks amid dockside risk.
Elmira football team. John Day reports smallpox. Huntington to Burns telegraph line planned. Grant county sheriff reports 9418.40 in November. Gold Hill school buys an organ. Corvallis creamery pays 26 cents butter fat. Shelburne man contracts 20000 fence rails. Summerville McDonald & Fisher sawmill in operation. Blanchard bridge repairs near Aurora finished. Pendleton Clerks' union forms with nearly 100 members. Enterprise council clamps down on bawdy houses and vagrancy. Fa genes breakwater east of Willamette bridge. Malheur County adopts new bridge over Succor creek. Lincoln County grants Welton 500 for Little Elkbridge damages. Hays body recovered near Hood dam. Captain Wainwright buys 35 horses for government. average 50 each. Tillamook County leases sawmill for road plank at 4 per 1000 feet. Eugene man Frank Hatch arrested for forgery. Traveling salesman robbed in The Dalles for 45 dollars. Homestake mine bonded for 25000 with three shifts. immediate possession. Albany rural delivery petitions circulate. Shedd route earns favorable reviews. Wallowa marshal jailed peddler for license evasion. foreigner to face contempt. Ocean Wave mine shows promise per Yale letters. Lakeview rustler notes artesian water within five feet of surface at 101 feet depth. Cottage Grove sells half interest in Peek-a-Boo mining claim for 600. Coos county lumber camp inmate jailed for grand larceny. Casey v. Crook county road case ruled against county. road established through Casey lands near Powell Butte found invalid.
Aluminum is used to solder iron rails end to end creating a smooth track with intense heat from alloying with oxygen. The piece discusses wall colors affecting lighting with reflection percentages and notes on casting metals and the behavior of gold and silver. It includes observations on meteor activity, Alpine hydropower, and Portugal travel anecdotes, ending with a Denver Times satirical piece and French public service uses of automobiles.
In an eight year prior anecdote from the New York Journal, Mark Twain notes an elevated car meeting a man who says he looks enough like Twain to be his brother. Twain admits pretending to resemble the famed author while acknowledging the impostor’s inner truth differs.
A leading financial man told a reporter that the mill in change exists only in school books and has never existed anywhere else and, by its nature, never can. This remark highlights skepticism about speculative financial ideas and their practical relevance.
Fragmentary ad copy urging use of a tonic for debility and constipation. It promotes a product tied to Sarsaparilla with a price of 25 cents and discourages standing alone, asserting no absolute personal independence in the universe and urging trial over time.
The Tacoma street railway has paid $100000 to those injured and to relatives of those killed in the street car accident on July 4.
Garfield Tera described as a preparation composed of MERGS that supposedly acts on the liver to permanently cure constipation. No clinical data or regulatory confirmation provided. The claim resembles an unverified health product assertion with no cited trials or endorsements.
The Portland Telegram urges readers to try Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets to cure a cold in one day. Drugstores refund money if it fails. E. W. Grove’s signature appears on each box. price noted as 2 cents.
City officials debate an ordinance to make it a misdemeanor to attract crowds by words or gestures on streets. The discussion touches on reverberations from Salvation Army activities and itinerant preachers as commissioners weigh limits on public gathering tactics.
The official census gives Salem Oregon's population as 4258. A skeptical note highlights the figure as small but stands. Also promotional tone for Mother’s Soother Syrup and local businesses in Toledo Ohio advertise cures for catarrh with testimonials and free samples.
The Afro American league of Port land plans a large New Year entertainment with fragmentary listing of acts. It mentions a candy product Cas carete Candy Cethartic and touches on themes of health and fashion. Details are incomplete due to damaged text.
A fragment notes prosperity and adversity linked as procession. It mentions Tam and Piso's Cure for Career saving the author’s life three years ago on Maple Street in Tee New York dated February 17, 1900.
An advertisement emphasizes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic’s ingredients Lion and Quinine with the promise No Cure No Pay. It asserts the plainly printed formula on every bottle and warns about anger during debate.
Fragmentary text hints at a trade or employment notice from Repel Gg Co located at 4 Monroe Ot, Chicago, Illinois. Mentions equity, heed, avarice, and women and girls to perform light home work. Details incomplete and unclear.
A Port Townsend report notes 14 tons of herring were caught in a single haul, but the note does not specify whether the catch came from one net or many nets.
Multnomah County Oregon faces a $300000 debt tied to unpaid warrants. A state legislative bill is expected this winter to provide funding or resolution for the debt.
Pacific jobbers appear before the Interstate Commerce Commission to press for more favorable freight rates. The filing emphasizes transportation costs and aims to secure relief for regional shippers amid changing freight charges.
A prominent copper ledge off Prince of Wales Island near Alaska is assessed at 8 per ton. The claim identifies Seattle entities as the owners and notes the large offshore deposit.
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