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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1903
Page
3
A nostalgic reminiscence contrasts warm old fires with cold modern steam heat. The poem speaks of round rosy backlog, sparks, and witch-eyes in the snow, praising the comfort and joy of a winter night by the fire over steam heated buildings.
A London paper hero, Green, recovers from a wound and uses keen deduction to identify two robbers at Justice Hawkins's house in Ashford. He traces them via footprints and a broken finger, then telegraphs police with a full description. Ethel Watson meets Green, who proclaims love as a crowd cheers.
A quaint instruction selecting an alphabet from sixteenth century Italian manuscripts. It explains adapting the letters for table linen like napkins and cloths, with embroidery techniques in satin stitch and outline or cording stitches for solid and tight parts. Suitable for towels with color contrasts.
A New York tale contrasts social power with milliners and beautifiers who wield autocratic influence. A grande dame returns from Paris and is pressed to drop an expensive Paris hat after a sharp retort about Mrs. Blank. Other tales note large charges by a complexion specialist and a vacation stylist who earned substantial sums.
A Washington Star report recalls a man and his fiancée who witnessed a cat torment a field mouse on their front steps. The girl showed calm fascination as the cat tortured and ate the mouse, leading the engaged couple to break off their engagement two months later.
Marconi’s table head station at Glace Bay near Sidney N S mirrors earlier Atlantic test sites. Previous efforts at Signal Hill Newfoundland and Cape Cod Massachusetts used kites and balloons to lift wires and suffered failures. The Glace Bay installation features four 215 foot wooden towers with steel bracing and interconnecting cables, forming a rigid wind resistant frame with copper cables suspended from top bridges.
The western part of Persia shelters a pigmy camel species revered by locals. Snow white specimens attract worship. The Shah gifted Berlin two of these small camels for the municipality. The larger stands twenty seven inches tall and weighs sixty one pounds. The smaller is four inches shorter with unknown weight.
A reader questions the reliability of a figure given by a mathematician, distinguishing between mathematical and political mathematicians and seeking to know whether the figures can be relied upon. The New York Times quote frames the concern about accuracy and interpretation.
Regular examinations of the art in New York City will determine the presence of bacteria and when dangerous germs are found to be prevalent the public will be warned and steps will be taken to head off the disease.
The text notes that railway expansion did not reduce the number of postal stages to Germany. Instead stage drivers increased from 5,178 to 5,314 by 1900, indicating growing delivery activity despite better transport.
In Sargent Missouri locals talk of a man with what may be the shortest surname on record. The remark sparked curiosity about unusual names and has become a small local feature in the town.
A flashy young man in a loud checked suit and yellow patent shoes converses with two friends outside a fashionable West End restaurant. He praises a girl as the prettiest, smartest, and most capable, then confuses the phrase fin de sizzle with fin de sozzle in a brief comic exchange.
If reports hold, we should make macaroni locally and enjoy it. Macaroni wheat is abundant, and factories could hire Italian labor to give plants and products an Italian flavor. Cooks need training in macaroni making before perfect results appear, but once provided we can be proud of a new domestic achievement and a cheese to accompany it.
A Philadelphia Bulletin remark notes a woman seemingly loses her head over a young man, with teasing lines about her obsession and romantic impulse reflecting a light social quip from the era.
This April 14, 1902 piece surveys the long arc of caricature from ancient grotesques to eighteenth century satirists. It credits America with forging a distinct personal cartoonist, who exaggerates individual traits to reveal character, noting Americans’ quick wit and rapid public events demand bold, insightful cartoons.
Marriage is a commonsense partnership where drift occurs from perceived slights and martyrdom. The columnist argues women often exaggerate grievances, causing distance with their husbands through withheld or overfed remarks.
A century-old vegetarian movement exists with one Philadelphia meeting house and about forty American members led by Rev. Henry Clubb. Originating with Rev. W. Cowherd in Manchester, the church promotes abstinence from meat, claiming longevity, clear vision, and normal weight among its adherents. It argues meat-eating fuels crime and warfare, advocating vegetarianism as universal abstinence.
J J Mill, president of Great Southern Railway, warns of worsening financial conditions. He cites uncertainty among New York financiers and shrinking demand in manufacturing and construction, predicting a downward shift in the economy and fewer building orders. He notes some may disagree but many share his pessimism.
United States Senator Hanna argues that organized capital and organized labor both stay and are essential. He cites higher wages and trade from capital’s organization, urges cooperation, and promotes the Golden Rule as the path to settle disputes between capital and labor.
A clever inventor creates a parlor golf set with a flexible fabric board a cup and bunkers that rise above the surface. Players roll a disk across the course aiming to land in the cup, as croquet and cricket have done in parlors. The apparatus folds for storage. Also a brief note on Cortelyou securing a stenographer job after a tip at the post office.
The text describes a strict sect urging members to abstain from flesh, fish, fowl, intoxicants, war, capital punishment and slavery. It notes Sr. Cowherd’s death in 1816 and a band of his followers arriving in the United States the next year, with Henry 8. Clubb serving as pastor since 1876.
Ottumwa Iowa quietly prompts a rising career for Cortelyou as a possible head of the new Department of Commerce. A small act by a local retiree changed a discouraged young man into a determined stenographer seeking work and shaping the cabinet hopeful’s path to prominence.
A German discussion urges replacing mata and papa with Mutter and Vater. A philologist notes mamma exists worldwide, used as a respectful title in Africa and India. The piece ends with a quip about a famine of silver dimes versus a scarcity of $1,000 bila.
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