Ocean telegraphy and local street concerns in Eugene
Eugene Guard notes on Marconi wireless ocean telegraphy and aging cable investors, a Santa Barbara Odd Fellow dies at 89 after 62 years, street improvements stalled by bulky rocks near the post office, a Portland Telegram quip on Chauncey Depew and a new wife, desert railroad section men described as horse-eaters, wild-horse hunts common in Southern Utah, and December rainfall in Oregon far below long-term averages with just four inches vs 7.41 daily mean over 31 years.
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Desert
Ut B
Barglare’s New Year’s raid sets Iowa town record
A Barglare spree in an Iowa town on New Year’s night broke records as robbers abandoned armloads for a wagon haul. They made a second trip, signaling a bold method shift. The era’s West policy note remarks Roosevelt’s future coastal welcome. Former presidents, seen less engaged with the West and South, share focus on a small northeast corner of the national domain, rich yet crowded.
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Barglare
Iowa
Fieet
Thy
Pacific Coast
Roosevelt
United States
Memphis Man Claims Embalming Fluid Discovery
A Memphis, Tennessee man states he has made a great discovery in an embalming fluid to preserve the body as in life. The idea will not gain popularity as public sentiment agrees the body should return to its elemental nature as quickly as possible.
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Memphis
Tennessee
Sinking steamer Wa' Walla sighted by survivors after blackout
A steamer Wa' Walla sank off the Northern California coast and a boat with twelve survivors, including two women, signaled with a red skirt to attract attention from the sinking vessel.
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Wa’ Walla
California
Britain to speed up work on twenty warships
Great Britain will likely urge acceleration of construction on twenty warships now under way. Proposals are invited for two battleships five armored cruisers and two protected cruisers. A further peace conference seems unlikely as powers pursue peace through conflict.
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Great Britain
German Bark Selene Arrives One Day Late at Astoria
The German bark Selene completed a Pacific crossing in twenty four hours by the clock but arrived a day late at Astoria. With the ship market at bedrock, the vessel must accept a much lower charter rate due to the delay.
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Pacific Ocean
Selene
Astoria
Bedrock
Navy chaplains face pay and uniform woes
At a Manhattan Methodist ministers meeting a speaker asserted Navy chaplains earn insufficient salaries. He also criticized the uniform, calling it a single-breasted head-bellied, long-tailed frock coat worn by clergymen, noting its unsuitability for naval service.
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United States Navy
New York
Kaiser’s Kiel Canal Visit Sparks Chaplain Incident
A report notes that during the Kiel Canal opening, the Kaiser’s passage past a line of warships prompted the ship’s chaplain to be ordered below deck due to his grotesque appearance, highlighting a moment of courtly concern and decorum amid ceremony.
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Kiel Canal
Coast Horror Recall Ties Death to Brother Jonathan Wreck
A vivid reminiscence recalls a Pacific Coast shipwreck near Crescent City. The disaster, linked to the Brother Jonathan strike on an unknown rock, sent sorrow along the coast and touched Eugene and others as a boatload of thirteen souls reached Crescent City before the steamer sank.
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Jonathan
Eugene
Crescent City
Boers blamed for shooting two officers amid peace talks
The piece argues the teachers shooting of two British officers during a peace meeting will inflame British sentiment more than a thousand battlefield deaths. It predicts retaliation against Boers, while noting innocent Boers will suffer for their countrymen’s crimes.
Brain study questions McKinley murder link
Dr Speitzka of New York reported to the Anatomical Society of Chicago that Leon Cadlgosz’s brain showed no disease or abnormality. He questioned whether a sane brain could commit an unprovoked murder like President McKinley’s, suggesting it may be inexplicable rather than caused by mental illness.
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Speitzka
New York
Anatomical Society of Chicago
Leon Cadlgosz
Pres
Dent McKinley
Morgan Buys Raphael Painting but Delays Import Over Tariff
J P Morgan purchased Raphael's Madonna of St Anthony of Padua for five hundred thousand dollars but will not bring it to the United States now due to a one hundred thousand dollar import duty. It appears odd that a buyer capable of paying such a price would object to a tariff equal to a fifth of the cost. He may insist he bought the painting, not a tariff.
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J P Morgan
Raphael
United States
Bugle Wishes Readers a Prosperous New Year
The Butte Montana Bugle extends New Year wishes to paid subscribers and hopes arrears are settled. It contemplates publishing a list of citizens facing financial reverses and, by consulting its records, could supply a near complete city directory of insolvent individuals.
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Butte
Montana
The Necessity and the Longgreen Appendix
Dialogue humor from a medical tale where Dr Sawbones debates removing Mr Longgreen's appendix while confessing a desire to buy an automobile. The exchange exposes the quirks of a surgeon driven by odd motives in a light comedic tone.
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Sawbones
Longgreen
Dr Sawbones
Printer’s Price Mark Spoils Simple Gift Box Try
A Philadelphia Press item notes a shopkeeper’s box showing a pricemark ruins a gift’s illusion. The piece humorously contrasts the giver’s intent for a costly look with the plain price tag, causing disappointment in the box’s display.
Newly Furnished Lodging House Ad
Ep Howe offers newly furnished lodging at the Courthouse Lodging House with fresh beds, paint, and paper. Located one block from the main business street and slightly over two blocks from the post office in a quiet area. Lodging with or without board available. Visit to be satisfied.
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Courthouse
Busness
Reoma
Ep Howe
Skeleton House and the Red Dwarf Mystery
In Central Park area a decaying house becomes the scene of a strange tale. Hugh Garrbolt, seen as foolish, earns coin from the Skeleton's House. Albert Vandemeer frees a girl held by a brutal Red Dwarf, defeats the creature, and the house is reduced to ruins. Albert and Ella Vandemeer marry as the widowed mother’s kin celebrate.
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Central Park
New York
Tigh Garrbolt
Hugh Garrbelt
Hugh Garrbolt
Albert
Red Dwarf
Hugh
Virginia
Garrbelt
Vandemeer
Garrbolt
Hugh Garrboit
Ella
Albert Vandemeer
Ella Avall
Difference Between Scott And Got Breadth Of Table
A dinner tale recalls Sir Walter Scott answering a pompous noble who boasted of his nobility. Asked the difference between Scott and “got,” Scott replied that the only gap lay in the breadth of the table, a sharp rebuke of pretentious manners.
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Sir Walter Scott
Scott
Got
Sir Walter
Painter's Pie Good and the Plucky Boy
Mrs. Sparks fears her four year old son Tommy has eaten painter’s paint after admiring a painter in the yard. A quick sequence of salt, potash, soft soap, and ipecac follows as the doctor and druggist act to save him. The painter admits leaving a paint pot within reach. Tommy’s resolve to declare painter’s pie as good returns as he recovers.
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Mrs. Sparks
Tommy Sparks
Tommy
Painter
Mr. Sparks
Susan
Helen
Jonah
Chicago Record- Herald
The Little Black Cat and a Lovers Night
A gothic vignette unfolds as Angelico Bellina Crispenello La Vafe and a cat enact a nocturnal drama of love betrayal and loss. An onyx heart ring a carrnelian token and a broken ring the cat and lovers drift through moonlit shadows toward an ending where faith breaks and shadows linger.
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Crtepenclo
Angelico
Bellina
Hellina
Crispenello
Angelica
la Vafe
la Fafe
Crispenella
Sunnoy
Divine discontent and the pull of progress
A Nebston excerpt reflects on how desires fade after obtaining comforts like watches and clothes. The narrator notes repeated longing, then contentment, and contemplates terms such as deceitfulness of riches divine discontent and the spirit of progress as explanations offered by family and friends.
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Father
Albert
Gregory in hospital yearns for Ethel amid pain
Gregory lies in a hospital bed preparing for surgery and questions whether his life will improve. He longs for the reserved Ethel and fears her absence. She visits, comforts him with the Twenty third Psalm, and the pair share a hopeful moment before his operation.
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Gregory
Ethel
Butchers Common Granted by Earl for Bull Sport
In King John’s era a William Earl of Warren watched two bulls fight on castle meadow. The duel chased by butcher dogs led the earl to grant the castle meadows as a common to town butchers. They must provide a mad bull six weeks before Christmas each year to continue the sport indefinitely.
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Wiliam
Earl of Warren
John
Castle Walla
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