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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1903
Page
3
Harper's Magazine presents a lyrical meditation on enduring love and timeless beauty. The speaker contrasts ancient empires with a single, undefaced love, claiming profound senses and music surpass all worldly riches. A reflective, idealized ode to love.
Teddy Armstrong wins Helen Vernon after a duel of suitors at a lavish party. Hawtrey, a world weary older rival, concedes love to the younger man after a test of nerve and wit. Helen accepts Theodore, and Bruce Hawtrey departs for Europe. Duke the dog proves loyal and watchful.
A 19th century formula prescribes chloral hydrate camphor chloroform ether oil of cloves peppermint and alcohol to make a pint for fat toothache. The piece then notes modern physiology links fatigue to long hours heavy brain work poor air and insufficient sleep, especially at high altitudes.
European dandies embrace women’s wear with a surge in men’s corsets. Paris trials reveal breaches in corset manufacture and annual French production of 18,000 for men, 3,000 shipped to England, with German officers creating demand. Bond Street shops employ workwomen to embroider and decorate male garments with logos and silk initials, as drawn by F G Long.
A Baltimore society man’s famed race horse, once offered at 1000 dollars, was sold at a Benning meeting for eight dollars then bought back for a pittance. A misrouted stable, a missing horse, and a wandering buyer left the owner chasing clues as the animal vanished and reappeared in a wagon, finally selling for five dollars. The tale chronicles bungled auction logistics and a costly misadventure.
F M Bisbee, ex chief engineer of the Tennessee Central, is named general manager of the Los Angeles Land and Water Company. The firm’s 1500 acre site near Los Angeles already bears olives and ships 1200 tons of oil and 50000 gallons of pickles this year. They recently bought 3000 more acres. 2000 will be planted. The article notes friars introduced olive culture to California over a century and a half ago and remarks on the region’s growing yield and revenue potential.
A visitor found the busy official still at full speed. He joked the man had seven workers, but the official said he had given tasks to nine workers, joking about forming a trust. The tale ends with a quip on money being tight and scarce.
M E Ingalls warns of dangers from vast combinations and trusts while urging publicity and taxation to curb power. He advocates protecting small landholders, discouraging large holdings, and expanding agricultural education and university study of agriculture as part of national growth.
Secretary James Wilson discusses federal efforts in agriculture noting experiments and stations in every state. He cites advances including a drought tolerant Volga wheat variety and Connecticut Sumatra tobacco soil suitability, with annual U.S. payments around eight million dollars and expanding cultivation.
Dr Sweet explains that colds arise from nose mucous membrane inflammation due to bacteria but require weakened local or general resistance. Exposure alone doesn’t guarantee a cold. factors include cold, drafts, fatigue, anxiety, sleep loss, and bodily toxin buildup that lowers defenses, allowing germs to act.
President C W Eliot of Harvard argues that church influence has declined across American generation. He says Protestant churches are too intellectual and emotional, urging more personal exertion from believers and criticizing Methodist emotional emphasis.
The famous Rev Horace Morrill, half of the celebrated Rev Morrill twins, dies in a Nebraska town. The pair known for shiplike Gospel Ship sermons built wealth during evangelism, drew mobs, used bold language, and kept two Winchester rifles as relics from Baraboo riots. They preached, sang, and ran a talking machine aboard their boat church and gave some funds to the church.
Irwin R. Miller of St Paul presents a gasoline motor attachable to the stern of a rowboat. Batteries and fuel sit under the seat, while clamps secure the motor casing. Designed for leisurely cruises and fishing on rivers and lakes, it aims to give boat owners an affordable alternative to costly new craft.
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