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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1904
Page
6
A nostalgic verse recalling childhood scenes by a stream with willows, birds, orchards, and lullabies. The speaker wanders back to youth, thanking dreams for returning him to days of yesteryear and a mother’s soothing songs.
A grandmother narrates a lifelong entanglement of love and duty. She recalls John, her bound boy, Eunice, and a forged letter that forced a painful choice. After secrets unfold and a late confession, John and the elder woman marry, aged and content, beside a waterfall as memories bloom again.
The Cathedral of St John the Divine in Morningside Heights is made with eight granite columns from Maine. Each costs about 25000 dollars, and two-piece sections weigh 37 feet 6 inches by 6 feet diameter 00 tons and 17 feet by 5 feet diameter 40 to 43 tons respectively. A large special truck and 40 horsepower engine move them two miles to the cathedral, a process taking up to nineteen days for the first column amid slow progress and limited funds.
Mrs Hedwig A Maas of East Orange New Jersey seeks congressional pension after daughter Clara Louise Maas died in Cuba in 1901 from a yellow fever experiment. Clara volunteered to be bitten six times by a mossquito to test transmission, and died at a yellow fever hospital while her sister rushed to be with her. A pension bill has been introduced in Congress to recompense the mother.
Oberlin M. Carter, former United States engineers captain, has been released after serving three years and seven months of a five year sentence for alleged Savannah harbor frauds. He improves health tending flower gardens, served as nurse, and kept medical records. He sues the government for 723000, claiming unjust conviction and military prejudice. Chicago will hear the case. He plans mining study and future mining interests in Arizona and New Mexico with uncle L P D Carter.
The Atlantic Monthly argues trade limits failed. Britain pursued war to dismember the union, with Jefferson preferring peace at any cost. It notes the Chesapeake incident as an unprovoked outrage. A separate anecdote recalls an office chat about charity. The closing line links true holiness to constant humble virtue.
A do it yourself guide describes building a simple magic lantern from a small box, wood, a lamp, reflector, and condensing lenses. It covers cutting openings, aligning the projector with lenses, and mounting a slide rest to produce a magnified image on a screen.
Instructions describe building a magic lantern with a deck base, holes for lamp draft, and mounting condensers from optical components. Steps cover framing, lamp chimney, condenser positions, and light seal, citing figures and an explanation by Joseph H. Adams in Woman's Home Companion.
Andrew Wilson argues disease control is everyone’s duty and education in health laws essential. He cites diphtheria and smallpox vaccination data from London, noting lower mortality among the vaccinated and urging social righteousness to improve living standards and health access for all citizens.
The article cites Rev John Watson, arguing the old self focus is fading in politics and business and even in religion. It says dying individuals once pondered life after death, but now seek welfare of wives and children. It notes appeals to individual salvation lose force, while service motives gain traction among youth and women.
Dean Heary of the University of Wisconsin urges improved livestock husbandry by learning from British practice and from interregional stock shows. He emphasizes self reliance, local communication, fairs, and Royal and Smithfield exhibitions as catalysts for progress and collaboration among breeders across America.
Miss Obesity questions the method of the physical culture professor while Miss Skinny Bones follows his diet and exercise advice. The professor explains that their cases are reversed and that a simple reversal of the medicines would achieve the opposite ends.
A parent notes faculty satisfaction with a student’s performance at Princeton University. The chorus of approval follows an encore for the sophomore year, reflecting strong school spirit and continued achievement.
A bride sews a lavish pink and white night shirt as a Christmas gift. The husband, saving it for a special illness, is surprised when asked to travel and finds the shirt in his hotel room. A wrong impression at the door leads to a comic reveal about the garment and its fate. The tale ends with the wife planning another such gift.
A tale recounts that Andrew Carnegie twice made a man a millionaire after learning they shared Dunfermline roots. A Crooklyn trousseau shopping trip revealed a clerk named Peacock, then a floor manager, who later married and left his job to pursue love. Carnegie’s intervention led to the clerk’s rise as a millionaire in the local steel industry. The story ends noting Mr Peacock’s recovery and Carnegie’s role in molding a fellow townsman into wealth.
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