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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1901
Page
2
A string of satirical aphorisms and anecdotes on wealth, fashion, women, politics, and culture. It cites Rockefeller, the Prince of Wales, Mrs. Roosevelt, and public figures while mocking pretensions, militarism, education, palm reading, and moderation. It comments on national character, discipline, and the need for sensible living.
An essay on youth and age contrasts with a report on Prof Gorham of Brown University who finds chemical salts that make decaying porterhouse meat glow. The aim is to produce a luminescent light from decayed matter to illuminate photography without heat.
In December 1873 at Westminster Abbey Dean Stanley hosted an unconventional preacher, Prof. Max Mueller, on world religions, yielding a highly regarded sermon later printed for substantial profits. The world sermon record belongs to Canon Fleming with Sandringham Church origin, tied to the Duke of Clarence death, profits shared between Gordon Boys Home and the British Home for Securables. Spurgeon’s sermons dominate modern publishing history.
A physician proposes nausea originates in the brain not the stomach and claims relief by cooling the base of the brain. He reports success in sick headache bile cholera morbus and other nausea cases and even notes relief from stomach cancer nausea using hot water on the neck.
A remarkable church is carved from a large coastal boulder at Sao Vincente in Madeira. Excavation was done by local natives with notable effort. The site is extremely quiet and perhaps unique among churches.
Among the Sioux a lending family leaves a small portion of cooked food in the kettle to show what was cooked, ensuring the owner knows. The custom implies the lender is cautious after a first offense, showing timidity when resuming use.
A collection of quick tales and quips about figures from history and literature. It includes jokes about Bismarck and the Dowager Empress Frederick, Kipling stories, Daniel Webster and a clock, Morris and a judge, and a gardener’s misread note. It closes with a prairie dog group observing a rattlesnake and then methodically blocking its escape hole.
Mr. Ransom recalls a near disaster from a sunlit fault in construction. A doughnut on a window ledge becomes a cautionary tale about shavings and a potential fire. He warns that night fires could ruin the cottage and urges careful supervision of builders and tools.
A cattleman, cited by the New York Tribune, witnessed a scene debunking the old belief that rattlesnakes owls and prairie dogs share a harmonious underground life. The encounter reveals the reptiles and owls do not live peacefully with the prairie dogs as once thought.
The Hon. Jeremiah Mason, admitted to the New Hampshire bar in 1791, was tall in stature though once frail in build. A snowy sleigh encounter shows Mason rising from his robes to reveal his true proportions as he defies a stubborn countryman who refuses to yield the right of way.
A seedy looking poet visits an English newspaper office and offers a poem. The editor asks for his address, and the poet replies that the address depends on whether his poem is accepted. If rejected, he claims he will have no address because his landlady is a woman of her word.
A station porter on the Caledonian Hallway was granted leave to marry in Edinburgh and received a return pass. Returning, a new ticket collector argued a marriage certificate misfiled as a ticket. The collector dismissed the document as invalid, noting it was a ticket for a very long code but not for the Caledonian Railway. An Earthen burial custom of the Miau tsze tribe is noted, with egg tests to find a safe burial site.
A father from Elmsworth lightly scolds his small son and later, seeking a favor, the boy offers the phrase Tapa as an inducement. The boy promises forgiveness for the whipping if the father complies. A note on a foolish youth chasing a girl ends with her becoming too proud to speak.
A woman agrees to send a child named Minima to a distant guardian in France. They travel from London to Noireau, facing a fraught welcome, poverty, and a grim school run by Madame Perrier. The narrator grapples with risk, duty, and a fragile hope for safety.
A New York Mail and Express piece recounts a butcher claiming that consumption does not affect him or other butchers. He asserts lifespans comparable to others, citing inhalation of fresh meat air as a possible shield. A Washington market worker and others echo uncertainty, joking about Colorado or Egypt climates and Pike's Peak as cures.
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