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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1904
Page
2
A miscellany from an old Eugene Weekly Guard column surveys politics, wealth, and culture with satirical notes. It cites figures like Campbell and Vanderbilt, muses on democracy and tenure, mentions Greenland gold, a Boston court case, and quirky anecdotes about architecture, boundary stones, and Grand Dukes.
Professor John Dill Robertson told the Chicago Eclectic and Surgical Society that bathing fuels skin bacteria growth and drains internal nourishment. He argued cold baths may cause pneumonia, while country youths wintering without washing show no need for baths. The piece links crime among youths to lack of authority and proper law obedience, criticizing modern society’s erosion of respect for law and its impact on youth behavior.
A brief Philadelphia Ledger exchange captures Miss Kuteley inviting Elder to call her Bessie Roasie in a light, cordial dialogue. The pair speak in courteous terms, highlighting informal familiarity between acquaintances.
The text claims Bob rei on a Persian Gulf island hosts the hottest climate with a mean annual temperature of 0 degrees. A woman over forty refers to herself and friends as us girls, noting a social aside.
Editorial from Collier's Weekly and Chicago Inter Ocean argues prosperity heightens nervous strain especially for women and that civilization breeds laziness unless driven by will. It cites Epictetus Emerson Werther Candide Thackeray and a call to cultivate purposeful work as essential to freedom and progress.
Montreal Star praises school based physical conditioning. It urges deep breathing practice, health exams for defects, and improved speaking voices and walking. The piece argues better physical health leads to happiness, less craving for wealth, and long term communal benefits.
The essay argues that work defines man more than circumstances. It claims many tramps became nontramps through personal will, not aid from others, and that hard times may start a tramp but choice ends it. It frames individual life as similar to an electric current.
A New York Journal extract argues industry evolves from competition to organization to emulation. It notes competition bred adulteration and wage suppression, while trusts represent organization. It predicts popular interference, leading to national ownership if few owners control railroads steel coal oil and streetcars.
The Thy Christian Guardian notes newspapers suggesting a Britain United States arbitration treaty similar to Britain and France. It argues for pacific dispute resolution by impartial tribunal over warlike force, praising a Christian consciousness advancing toward universal law. It urges the two English speaking nations to lead in this direction.
An illustrated tool combines a corkscrew with a fork to lift and turn large portions of meat during cooking. The device uses a handle, tube, outer tines, and a spiraled screw that engages the meat with a reverse turn releasing it. It promises firm grip without tearing or dropping the meat.
An observer describes flying fish off the Gulf of Mexico between here and Vera Cruz, noting their playful leaps and aerial escapes from predators. The account highlights how these creatures glide on winged fins for long distances, drawing curiosity from tourists and travelers alike.
Mrs Fanny Bullock Workman, famed climber and explorer, and party including Dr and Mrs Workman and Italian guides, reach 21,770 feet then 22,008 feet on twin peaks above the Chogo Loongma glacier in Hun ta-Nagye region during a 1903 Himalayan expedition. Readings taken at summit and lower station Skardu validate the ascent amid brutal snow bivouacs and high-altitude exertion.
A comic dialogue shows a bride anxious about bills amid a new marriage. Her partner learns her late husband’s money vanished to relatives, while a grocer boasts a business exceeding twenty thousand dollars. The buyer questions the grocer about his true finances.
Tibet remains a near mystery with 650000 square miles largely unknown. The lamas control wealth and religion shapes daily life, while the Younghusband expedition looms as a foreign warning. Harsh climate, dirt taboo, and prayer wheels illustrate a society resistant to outsiders and modern comforts.
A 19th century observer details Tibet as a remote tableland with few outsiders, where the grand lama governs from Lassa. Lamas dominate society, monasteries sprawl like fortresses, and one sixth of the population serves them. The report notes primitive justice, prevalent violence, and harsh penalties.
An elderly Washington man recalls President Lincoln praising the Confederate raider John Morgan. During a White House reception Morgan reportedly intercepted mail, including a War Department letter with a captain’s commission for a Grant officer, signed by Lincoln and approved by Morgan. The anecdote portrays Morgan’s audacity and Lincoln’s wary admiration.
Ancient sources reference early dental work with a “dentist for the teeth” in Egypt and Pompeii artifacts. Galen notes tooth drawing with forceps in the second century, and Belzoul cites tombs with artificial teeth. Albucasis, in the 13th century, is credited with teaching true dental art in Al Tarif.
A driver lost control and crashed through a writing-fluid factory wall into a vat of finished ink. Emerging unharmed aside from pride, he jokes that he is still indispensable to a well ordered desk, claiming to be a first class inkancer in a pun on ink and inky.
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