This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 20 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1901
Page
6
Professor Coote explains rose culture in Oregon at a College on Rose Culture. He notes Oregon’s mild climate makes rose cutting easy from fall collections and advises selecting well matured wood ten inches long, planting with two buds above ground, and removing underground buds to prevent suckers. Pruning timing affects bloom. late March pruning yields best flowers but delays bloom.
The American Woolen Company reports twenty five New England mills in the combine with capital stock of 49 501 000. It shows seven percent on the undivided profits and seven percent on common stock. The piece argues trusts inflate capitalization to mislead the public and cites a fifteen percent return to stockholders as outrageous.
The article argues Britain may accept the Boer War expenses of about 140 million pounds sterling or 700 million dollars as the price of territorial gains. It warns another victory could push the country toward bankruptcy, noting the Boers gain liberties while Britain bears a heavy public debt.
Matthew and Pricilla Grant arrived in 1630 and sixty descendants celebrated Pricilla’s 300th birth anniversary in New York. A claim said her line now totals twelve thousand, suggesting only a small blood proportion remains. Still, her line made their existence possible.
The Dutch steamship Wilhelmina departed Portland on Thursday carrying 214 298 bushels of wheat. The cargo equals 6400 short tons or 5700 long tons and would require three to four sailors to load and about five months to reach the destination, though the voyage could take about sixty days.
A new Montana enactment requires the judge to read the charge to jurors before opening counsel argument in criminal trials. The piece notes the rule change amid other oddities and regional occurrences, including a Portland harbor mishap and a barber in Castle Rock facing four years for burglary.
The British army requires officers to wear uniforms in public venues such as theaters and entertainments. The order is unpopular among officers who fear it will spur enlistments from an undesirable class. The better class of citizens shows little fondness for military service.
Bourke Cochran, noted New York orator, argues the church should solve social problems. He notes history shows the church not always a leader in progress and warns that even with free thought, the church varies with its era.
Congressman Shafroth of Colorado argues the Republican bill to redeem silver dollars in gold marks a new policy altering previous metals treatment and departing from monetary science principles. He notes no government requires its treasury to redeem silver coins in gold.
The famed actress avoids wine to her credit and has lived a wild life. She is said to think highly of herself though she hails from vine rich France. It is noted she occasionally drinks whisky with mineral water. She would be popular if she visited Kentucky.
Henry Ward Beecher on a eastern state railway carried a fine globe just gifted to him. Colonel Ingersoll admired it and asked who made it. Beecher replied that no one made it, it just happened, a quip reflecting on chance rather than craft.
A Brownville scribe laments Linn county stand on the Lina Lane boundary measure. He accuses Eugene and Lane county of hindering Calapooi and Blue River district development, warns Linn should push wagon roads to Calapooia mines, and labels Eugene and Lane as hogs in a heated regional dispute.
An aging Paris notary mocks conceit of returning from death by positing a life extending secret. His Breton servant Je an agrees to a macabre oath to help simulate a second death room procedure. After a fatal stroke the notary rises to dictate his will using a chilling ice method before finally dying again and being buried two days later.
A person named Peggy Mies Undersood in Baffeio New York was admitted to a hospital on Monday for an operation on a appendicitis. The update notes she recovered slowly after the procedure.
In a Washington Star excerpt, a farmer drops a galiso full of sawdust and places a gold brick on a shelf while claiming a new discovery. The exchange hints the find is not crucial but intriguing, with talk of public opinion and involvement.
In the summer of 1776 General Washington, rested after dinner in New York, was approached by an orderly bearing the name Mistress Betsey Ace Blessing. The brief encounter is noted as a historical vignette during the American Revolutionary War.
A love tale set around Washington during a banquet scene. Mistress Bres ting confesses a plan to expose treachery while Washington debates mercy. Betsy Ang Blessing marries her lover after a dramatic escape, and the peas dish becomes a grim symbol of loyalty and sacrifice in a tense moment at the commander in chief’s table.
A hazy description notes a Bottes House near Hredford with a summer structure. The outer area uses battons fastened to boarding. roughly 2,000,071 battons exist, including about 30,008 of various kinds.
A distorted message hints at someone named Roy visiting an office and observers noticing dark expressions on faces. The illegible text provides little context but suggests an informal encounter or warning. No clear dates, places, or organizations are identifiable from the readable fragments.
A jumbled OCR pass covers university appointments and commemorations, campus developments, and unrelated personal lines. It mentions Louis H and John names, a plan for a light erection, a 1.00 to 2.25 range, and scattered phrases about spring, grave, and eel.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.