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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1901
Page
3
Eugene Weekly Guard reviews shifting press suspensions in Russia and public figures. It notes Carnegie’s philanthropy, cabinet name quirks, and a new producer consumer move uniting cotton and wool growers with banks. The piece links satire on high finance to broader market changes and reformist trends.
A 19th century column muses on handwriting yielding to the typewriter in business and authorship, contrasts social graces with frank rudeness, and cites West Point hazing reforms. It notes cadet unrest after Congressional hazing verdicts, expulsion and suspensions as a lesson in obedience, and closes with a New York wedding speech asserting risky spiritual beliefs.
The Chicago Journal defends traditional marriage as a civil and religious contract with legal protection. It condemns Prof. Herron and Miss Rand for advocating a self solemnized union outside formal rites, arguing such views threaten family stability and moral order by appealing to primal impulses and bypassing established law.
The Kobe Chronicle reports a macabre Corea farm game where a widower and eleven friends abduct a young widow from a near Kangwha hamlet and wed her by force. The mistaken target led to a dawn chase. the intended bride was saved and returned with her husband. The widower’s house and belongings were demolished in the aftermath.
Max Carnaveaux who performs hypnotism exhibitions adapts his act after a test subject in Lyndon Kansas struck him, fracturing a hand bone during a jovial session. He now plans to banish male subjects and stick to gentler animals for experiments.
A traditional refrain links sunny weather to misfortune for brides while rain is seen as ensuring happiness. In Breton lore brides mourn before the wedding, and some cultures drench the bride to invite lasting fortune. Greek tradition favors a thorough soaking for good luck.
A junior firm member Mr Bingo suffers a dramatic sneeze that unfolds like a circus show. Senior partner Mr Gringo notes the sneeze is a regular circus, and Bingo agrees the performance never meets the advance hype.
A widowed Princess of Natal in Egypt holds a unique right to see men by special order of the Sultan. The report notes a lavish coat and a cautionary remark about bad habits, reflecting court life and social norms of the period.
A essay argues that writing machines will spread from business use to schools and hotels, predicting universal adoption. It urges teaching typewriting in upper grades and colleges, noting future widespread access in hotels and rooms with baths. It also recounts Suverkrop’s observation of an aquatic orchid with a water-transporting tube that coils and unpacks to draw and deliver water.
Mrs. J W Morgan of Denver recalls Ida Saxton as a quiet diligent five year old in the first Canton public schoolhouse in 1853. Ida later became Mrs. William McKinley wife of a president. Morgan, then Miss Spiker, was Canton’s first union schools teacher amid opposition to graded schools.
American collector E A Saverkrop of Philadelphia recounts finding a remarkable orchid in South America that allegedly drinks water by lowering a tube into a water source. The plant’s discovery is tied to Prof. N E Brown of the Hertrium and Kew Gardens involvement.
Gladys Butzheimer Declares final rejection to Launcelot Bimmy after her sharp accusation that any man who would try to buy St Paul amid a falling market is not fit for her heart. The scene unfolds in Butzheimer Manor leaving the suitor a broken, wandering figure in the night.
An elderly woman aboard a Kingston train breaks into tears and begs to be let off after realizing she forgot a sack of turnips to take to her son, John Henry, in Atlanta. A fellow traveler and the conductor intervene as the train stops abruptly.
Berlin stands out with no general dinner hour or uniform business hours. Each professional circle fixes its own schedule, shaping household meals. Army, banking, writers, artists, universities all operate on different timetables, so a wide visiting list can lead to dinners between 2 and 7. Dyspepsia follows if you fail to fit a set.
A fragment mentions elephants in India as ideal purchases for ages over 12 up to 80, then shifts to the United States as a hardware exporter and a new town arrival described as potentially bright. It ends with a farmers' report about a recurring spring pest with an increased appetite.
Mary Selden adjusts to Mount Holyoke with friends Jenny Ida Rose and suitor Billy Bender in a tale of class entrance, charity, and romantic entanglements. Mary gains support from Mrs. Mason while Billy plans a future he cannot yet share, as Rose pursues George Moreland and Ida plans a Boston winter.
The text compares plants to people, describing potatoes as bohemian savers storing nourishment for winter while beans nurture their offspring. It argues this classification of plants into bohemians and the selfish and unselfish is noteworthy, presenting a poetically framed view of plant strategies for survival and reproduction.
A crude anecdote from a Chicago newspaper page recalls railroad lore and a child financier. A railroad man explains a Zulu as a box car figure, while a pipe vents smoke and a center of cars holds a joke about the “Zulu center.” In a brief Jewish Word segment, Little Isaac boasts a plan to scatter pennies then gather them, trading share for a newspaper paper clip.
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