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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1903
Page
10
Exchange banter on telegraphing schemes and a joke about a wife kicking shins for twenty years. Mrs Winston's Soothing Syrup advertised as best teething remedy for children. Glass bricks touted as weather resistant, with plans for public statues using glass.
The article celebrates Monopole brand canning as a milestone in large scale fruit preservation. It lauds the fruits as delicious and sweet with natural flavor and vegetables tasting garden fresh, packed under a blue label and distributed by Wadhams Kerr Bros in Portland.
A collage of quirky lines from Chicago Daily News quotes a fashionably described summer boarding house and a joke about chickens run over by wealthy motorists. The item features an oath by Frank J. Cheney of F J Dumagey & Co offering a cure for catarrh and testimonials for Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills, followed by a Sherlock Holmes quip about a woman's intellect inferred from missing coat buttons.
A short dialog from a grocery man recounting a tale about a certain politician. The disillusioned office seeker interjects that there are no definite politicians, framing a humorous exchange on political certainty.
A Tennessee bank robbery by a female gang is cited to illustrate growing female efficiency in crime. The article cites older police views, notes women as safe blowers new to police, and discusses how women exploit social expectations to pilfer. It also reflects on forgeries by women abroad and kleptomania in stores.
Ellers Piano House advertises huge discounts on uprights and squares, mostly lightly used, refurbished and ready. Prices range from $25 to $265 with down payments and monthly installments offered. orders invited for complete lists and details. The piece also notes The Century magazine series by Ray Stannard Baker on The Great Northwest and The Great Southwest, with illustrations by Edward Blumenschein, previewing March issues.
A New York Sun interview with a storage and van man highlights how modern transport makes trans-Atlantic moves as easy as local moves. Van lift systems allow houses to cross oceans on rail and steamship, with both European and American movers sending goods back and forth through agents and van lists.
An editorial aside notes Adam’s luck with solitude and independence in raising his boys. A vintage ad then touts Piso’s Cure for Consumption, a cough remedy sold by druggists for 25 cents, claiming forty years of effectiveness.
The Pacific Vacuum Ice Company seeks investors for 60 days offering 50,000 preferred shares at 1.00 each with a 6 percent guaranteed dividend and a bonus of one common share. They own patent rights for several Western states and report plans for a 100 ton per day plant in Block No. 12 at 19th and Harrison, San Francisco.
A Baltimore woman defeats a formal business reply with a witty counter letter from Miss Dash, turning a routine commerce exchange into humor. The junior partner’s stiff phrases collide with real intention, leaving him to face the question How's business?
Announcement declares the cruiser Baltimore will be made fireproof with thin welded steel furniture including desks chiffoniers chairs and beds to resist fire. The project, costing about £20000, follows lessons from Santiago and aims to eliminate woodwork on warships. Hindu groups in Australia seek direct political representation in the commonwealth parliament.
A long testimonial piece touts Pe-ru-na as a catarrhal tonic for old age. It features Isaac Brock aged 114 from Texas praising Pe-ru-na as the key to longevity and resilience against climate and catarrh. Other endorsements follow from Major Frank O Mahoney, Rev J N Parker, Mrs F E Little, and a physician in Columbus, Ohio, asserting renewed vigor, restored hearing, and relief from digestive and systemic catarrh.
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