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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1901
Page
4
The report outlines a waning toboggan season from Oregon to Washington with fewer runs and damaged fronts. It notes isolated wrecks and the impact on local merchants, plus a nostalgic look at the sport’s heyday and the slide into quiet recreation as heavy snow and frigid conditions persist.
Olives are a comparatively recent fruit in the United States with California roots dating to mission days. In the last twenty years they have gained commercial importance, yet the industry faces soil and cultivation method uncertainties and faces competition from cottonseed oil. Pickled ripe olives are valued for food, while green olives serve as a relish. Dried olives are little known in the U S but common in Greece.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat report notes a Chicago bound catfish project aims to replace salmon by smoking large Mississippi River catfish and tinting them salmon pink. While experimental, backers plan large scale deployment next spring near New Orleans to cut transit costs, with moral objections noted.
American firms led the bid for rebuilding South African railways amid British anger at losing contracts. Major Girouard, an American, heads the Transvaal railway reconstruction and invited American firms to submit estimates. American suppliers also aided the Soudan railway and the Atbara bridge project.
A photographer ready to sell his studio jokes about a 17 year old girl wanting her photo taken. She asks if her face will break the camera and he quips it has double extra strong lenses. She goes to a rival who laughs at the line. Inline quips and old age wisdom mirror social wit in brief clips.
A historical account traces train robberies from post Civil War Reno boys to the James and Younger brothers. It notes modern dynamite use while recounting a Chicago area holdup near Urbana, involving Messenger Hobson and the murder of Lane. Pinkerton defines era origins and evolving methods.
A sweeping look at railroad robberies across the West and Southwest with incidents from near Omaha to Chicago and Columbus. The piece recounts daring seizures, gunpoint stops, and crew confrontations, including a bold strike near Melrose and De Kalb and a fatal shot in a Chicago area hold-up. It notes varied outcomes for bandits, including deaths, captures, and evasions, and follows a sequence of masked men targeting express trains and passengers from Illinois to Ohio.
The article profiles Marcus Daly, the Irish born Montana magnate, noting his vast holdings including a bank, an electric railroad, a large hotel, horses and farms, and a one fourth stake in the Anaconda copper mines. It recalls Daly arriving in the United States penniless, digging potatoes for three weeks to save money before heading to the mines that built his fortune.
Eddie Von Geldern, a 13 year old in San Francisco, crafted detailed model battleships and a steam engine and electric car from scraps in a single year. His tin boiler, zinc front, curtain pole accents, and camera plate windows impressed the Technical Society of the Pacific and the Academy of Science with lifelike, meticulously scaled detail.
A Market Street merchant, distracted by a telephone call at his front door, misses a farmer’s loud demand asking to buy alge. The farmer’s booming phrase echoes through the store, prompting the merchant to snap, then confess, and the other witness jokes later about how he could make a deaf man hear with “steam.”
In a London Pick-Me-Up exchange Ethel admits a bizarre mishap after stepping on two front teeth that had fallen from a sideboard. Emily expresses sympathy while noting the pain.
A fragment discusses counting oddities such as rooms, windows, doors, and ladder rungs. It notes Siamese custom where counts must be odd and warns against misplacing a young woman of forty in a time reserved for older married women of forty.
While crossing the Isthmus of Panama the narrator in On the Frontier recounts picking flowers, mistaking a wilted plant for danger, and fearing Panama fever. A sensitive plant caused a rapid color change and a momentary panic before realizing the blooms were harmless.
A street scene satirizes class among horses as a work horse and carriage horse exchange quips. The carriage horse mocks the other over meal choices, while a regal mare flaunts her silver harness chains, declaring a preference for stable food.
A short exchange set in Philadelphia with a great man recalling shining shoes and a bootblack observing that many are led astray. The lines imply social contrasts and small wisdom moments from city life. The touch of humor and regional voice evokes a newspaper snippet from urban life in the era.
A historical note states silk dresses were worn in China 4,500 years ago. The other item mentions Finland losing about 27,500 dollars in cattle annually to wolves. The writing also offers a reflective aside on childhood wonders and the rationale for gently correcting abuse.
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