Battle of Santiago Victory Credit Disputed in Echoes
A Eugene Guard editorial argues over who deserved credit for the naval victory at Santiago. It challenges President Roosevelt’s view, favoring Admiral Cervera’s role and insisting stokers and coal miners fueled the fleet’s success, not Sampson or Schley alone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bate Domians
Miner
Roosevelt
Santiago
Bugle
Sampson
Cerera
Cervera
Schley
Sehley
Port Angeles City Council Targets Moral Scandal
Port Angeles officials vow to enforce laws against immoral conduct after reports that resident J A Lawrence abandoned his family and lived publicly with Mic B Darby. The council aims to crack down and drive out such objectionable behavior to restore public decency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Angeles
Puget Sound
J A Lawrence
USA
Mic B Darby
Angeles
Tis “Darby
Missoula Photographers Form Defensible Pricing Trust
Photographers in Missoula Montana organize a trust with a uniform price scale. The arrangement reportedly lacks a formal trust structure and maintains current game-time pricing with no increases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missoula
Montana
Growth of Dawson City Led by New Methodist Pastor
The First Methodist church of Dawson City has called Reverend James Livingstone of Windsor Ontario to lead its congregation at a salary of $3,000. Livingstone accepts the assignment and moves to oversee church activities and community outreach in the growing city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dawson City
First Methodist Church
City
James Livingstone
Windsor
Ontario
Troop Returns From Philippines Amid Pacification Claims
The War Department arranged homeward moves for all troops sent to the Philippines in 1899 leaving 82,000 remaining in Asiatic possessions. Washington authorities insist the islands are pacified, a claim made amid a sizeable standing army.
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War Department
Philippines
Washington
Inquiry Names 23 Bank Cashiers in Get Rich Quick Scam
An official inquiry into a waning New York brokerage firm that touted a method for getting rich quick revealed twenty three bank cashiers from various regions as patrons. It is scarcely believable that men in such positions could be misled by promises of five hundred percent monthly profits on investments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Meaning of Sierra and its geographic ridge origin
The term sierra derives from Spanish, defined as a ridge of mountains with craggy rocks and an irregular outline. It explains how the Cascade continuations south of the Oregon California boundary got their name, linking Sierra Nevadas in the United States and Sierra Madre in Mexico to the original word.
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Cascade Range
Oregon-California Boundary Line
Sierra Nevadas
United States
Sierra Madras
Mexico
Waiters at White House luncheon in Roosevelt era attire
The account describes waiters at a White House luncheon for Prince Henry wearing black corded coats black waistcoats black plush knee breeches with gold buckles black stockings patent leather pumps and white gloves. The writer adds a Shakespeare quote implying some citizens are foolish near the White House.
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White House
President Roosevelt
Prince Henry
Gruesome death proof used to secure life insurance
Sheriff Frasier of Portland filed a death certificate for Jack Wade, executed for murder, to allow his mother to claim life insurance. The line after cause of death lists strangulation, execution, nine minutes, jail yard, with attending physician Harry F McKay. The text implies the mother would see blood on the document if she touched it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frasier
Portland
Jack Wade
Wade
Harry F McKay
Laurean and Philologian Societies Hold Debates At Campus
University news from Villard Hall recounts the Laurean Society meeting with talks on the Weather Bureau and Roman Highway systems and a close debate on excluding Chinese laborers. An inter-society debate with the Philologian is planned for March 21, amendments to Associated Students rules pass, and Australian ballot elections set.
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Fay Howe
H C Eastland
A & Weather Bureau
G H Merritt
Bacon
Johnson
Scarbrough
Dillard
Laureace
Philologiane
Laureans
Eastland and
McArthur and
Templeton
Eutaxian
Polologian
Laurean
Villard Hall
Associated Students
County Officers and Miscellaneous Financial Entries
The document lists county allowances and accounts with reductions by J D Hawlin and D Lee, and various county officials including J BR Ailser, W W Withers, J Howe, Geo B Camp, D r Burton, and C M Collier. It covers sheriff, deputy sheriff, assessor, clerk, surveyor, treasurer, judge, ferries, janitors, stamps, telephones, and miscellaneous items, with several small payments and salaries noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kivoard
Patterson
Colaly
Withers
Lee
L Gutve
Cailison
SBOLY
Seri Sen
Fred Fisk
Conret i
Vaughan Ferryomn
E Bowen
H Eston
Joe Gillespie
Bachelor’s Courtship Ends In Fairytale Proposal
Mark Winthrop, a 34 year old domestic man, plans marriage for convenience and writes a loving letter to Miss Enderbury aged 35. A younger sister, Adele, answers the door instead, and Winthrop smoothly woos her, discovering his romance blooms with a girl he mistook for her sister, culminating in a cautious but earnest embrace of a fairyland love.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Winthrop
Winthrop
Miss Enderbury
Enderburys
Rosebud
Mr. Winthrop
Toby
Fairyland
Neil van Vachden
May Get a Fortune for Cottage Grove Man
Wm Landes of Cottage Grove may gain a slice of the Cronkrite estate of Holland, estimated at 80 million dollars. He is among about 800 heirs and travels to Portland to search family records in his uncle’s possession. If shared among 300 heirs, each would receive over 200 thousand dollars.
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Wm Landess
Cottage Grove
Cronkrite
Holland
United States
Landes
Portland
Landees
Death of W H Smith in Cottage Grove at age 70
W H Smith colored died at Cottage Grove on February 27 from dropsy aged 70. The brief notice records the death and age without further details.
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W H Smith
Cottage Grove
The Hand of Fate and a Literary Dream Fades
A writer abandons literature to appease Emma Creswell and her father, but perseveres. After years of struggle and small royalties, a surge in sales and a later reprint bring momentary triumph, only for a harsh verdict from publishers. Emma consoles him as he ends up head of his father's business, yet a final twist reveals a box of "The Hand of Fate" copies bought to ease disappointment.
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Father
Emma
Montains
Binks' Clash With Police Ends in Tragic Descent
After leaving a secure shop job Binks opens his own workshop and faces brutal police harassment. A sequence of arrests threats and ruined business leads to eviction and prison for three years. Released he loses faith in humanity and drifts toward despair ultimately seeking admittance to Sing Sing and contemplating suicide.
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Eugene
University News
Daily Guard
Laurean Soc Rty
Philologian Society
H C Galey
Clyde Gray
Glas & Puivcomme
Withers Eberiff, Stampa OG
Pacifis
Miller Stamps and Telephone
Pesetbeees Iipine Twewnens
BES Glase & Prodhomme
Wm Gowland
4Th Infantry
O NG
Ashland
Henry Cobwertog
Ninth Street
Trowbridge
Morrie & Crow
Heaven
McRibers
San Francisco
Wm. Landess
C. B. Lewis
Binks
Bis
Young UN
Binka
Sing Sing
M. Quad
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