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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1901
Page
4
A rural narrator recalls nut gathering season with family life on a farm. Children miss school to gather hickory nuts, hunt coons, and enjoy long days outdoors while Grampa and Gramma provide warmth, pipes, and stories. The piece ends with a wish that every child had a Grandpa like mine.
A Kansas City man owns 40 pound shears once used in cloth finishing. The tool and its buyer trace back to Chenango Falls New York. The article recounts how nap was removed in old methods with teasels and chairs and how modern practice now uses burning to create a clean surface. The anecdote moves to a Baltimore News tale about a maid in church donations, ending with a clutched penny and a warden returning it with the notes.
A young woman in church faced a awkward moment when she found only a five dollar note and a single penny in her purse. With the service near and the plate approaching, she could not donate the larger bill and pondered how to manage the insufficient funds.
A distraught woman enters a Baltimore drug store seeking poisons for suicide, but the pharmacist refuses without a prescription. She then pleads to relieve her dog’s suffering after an accident, while the clerk counsels endurance and cheer. The scene ends with uncertainty over the dog’s fate.
A nineteenth century tale describes a moment when clerks urged haste to administer chloroform to an animal. A young man and the young woman were sent forth to complete the act while the druggist wiped his brow, remarking on the near tragedy.
Medical Times reports on fifty years of monthly records from a leading Ife insurance company. It notes 44 003 deaths with tuberculosis, apoplexy and paralysis, heart and digestive diseases, pneumonia, Brights disease, typhoid and other illnesses. Age breakdown shows varying mortality by period across violence, tubercu losis and heart disease.
The Philadelphia Telegraph notes German playwright Gerhard Hauptmann’s luck in birth, wealth from inheritance and marriage, rising play profits, and a hobby of villa building with projects in Silesia, near Berlin, the Riesengebirge, and near Dresden.
The piece notes discovery of thriving flocks in Patagonia and Terra del Fuego prompting vast, profitable ranches. It reflects on love and misperception, concluding that appearances deceive and imagination rules the world.
A. O. Wright describes a natural soda dam in Box canyon above the Jemez River hot springs Arizona. The wall of soda stands about WW feet high and 6 feet wide, formed by rapid mineral deposits from spring waters over past ages. A 20-foot breach nearly closed after a flood ten years ago, with the upper 80 feet now remaining dry and future deposits expected to fill the gap. Scientists say the dam may top near 100 feet, while the lake above narrows as deposits accumulate.
A historical survey maps the globe’s largely unknown areas across the north and south poles, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. It highlights extensive gaps in geographic knowledge, noting polar drifts, uncharted coasts, deserts, and river basins, with future expeditions planned to expand the map.
The text describes a curious property of sulphate of quinine. An exposed drawing on quinine paper, after sun exposure, can imprint a perfect reversed image onto sensitive paper when left in a book for hours. Writing can be copied this way with reversed writing to appear correctly on the paper.
In Algerian grottoes French explorers found stone implements mixed with extinct animal remains from the tertiary period. They suggest the coastlines then differed from today and the fauna included rhinoceros hippopotamus and various ruminants associated with early human inhabitants.
As a young man Remeny! agreed to play music from 8 to 11 at a dinner for a parvenu host. He began with an andante from Mozart, slow and soft. The host complained to guests, grumbling that he hired him by the hour and still he played slowly.
A famed businessman, shaved head mocked by friends as they tease his bald look in front of his wife and daughter. Little Mabel, resting on her father's lap, hugs his neck and defies the tormentors, asking with innocence if he will grow hair on his chin.
The War Department selects the transport Burnside as the first US cable ship to lay underwater line to the Philippines. Formerly Kita, the vessel was captured from Spain and rebuilt in Brooklyn with three copper tanks holding 2 1/2 miles of cable each. Laying the line will be difficult due to a rugged sea bed and sparse charts, requiring a skilled crew to manage payout and buoyancy.
The cable ship Burnside pursues laying the line to the seabed, with the crew landing heavy shore ends from shore and using air balloons to support the cable. As depth changes, payout rate varies and a sudden shallow from deep water near submarine mountains risks breaking slack and requiring grappling for the broken end.
The British and Foreign Bible Society sold over 5 million Bibles last year, a gain of 1 million from the previous year. Sixty thousand testaments were printed for South Africa troops, while English sales held at 2 million. Missions drive the rise, with many Bibles printed in China and Hindostan. if trends persist, Christianization could occur in about two centuries.
Prof C E Bessey, examining the California giant, counted 1147 growth rings from stump to center in a tree forming the dancing pavilion floor. The tree measured about 24 to 25 feet across and over 300 feet tall, dating its growth to 1147 years. He doubts any current tree reaches two thousand years, noting the satisfaction in deceiving the deceiver.
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