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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1901
Page
4
Winter fishing along Lake Erie is common with pole and net work while small winter tug boats haul nets near the government pier. The piece also describes winter gymnasium leagues forming from college teams and the rise of indoor ball games with a balloon ball and baskets, alongside a humorous exchange about meals among British peers.
The piece notes how male athletes dismissed basketball as only for girls but cites rapid adoption by female teams in seminary and college programs. It highlights how the sport provided spirited competition, teamwork, and personal pride, contrasting early skepticism with growing enthusiasm among women athletes.
In a life of Sir James Nicholas Douglass a tale recounts Tom Bowen, an early assistant on a lighthouse tower, famed for knowing rock crevices where crabs hid and for snatching crustaceans as gifts. A rough diary notes he was bitten by a crab on Sunday August 26 while crabbing, a rare mishap for the keeper.
Bobby returns home dirty with a broken bike and bruises after running into a dog. His mother asks why he didn t avoid the dog. He explains he closed his eyes to sneeze, and by the time they could open again he had already hit the dog.
The article explains passing and intercepting in basketball, contrasting it with football. It notes players cannot run with the ball or tackle, and describes the goal under the basket with one player aiming to toss the ball into the receptacle while opponents try to block. It mentions Bobby as a humorous aside about sneezing.
The article notes that hard work of dining in elite circles leaves Lords and premiers ignorant of infant pleasures. At a club Lord Salisbury appears preoccupied during meals and seems unaware of what meat he is eating. On a recent occasion the Premier and the Duke of Devonshire dined together.
A soldier writes home from the Philippines about a church service for visiting Americans. He notes a saint with an eagle above her image and a banner reading The Old Reliable Condensed Milk, copied from a milk can. The eagle inscription, he says, suggested an American motto.
The French Minister of War proposes giving shorthand lessons to soldiers at all French garrisons to improve communication and efficiency in the field and administration.
A guide describes how water varies by minerals and impurities, noting hard water with lime, mineral springs, and decaying matter that fuels disease germs. It explains filtration, aeration, and boiling as safeguards, cautions about polluted wells and tainted ice, and warns typhoid risk from contaminated water and milk cans.
A struggling young author reflects on hard work and luck in achieving success, sharing the tale of a musician who sold his first piece for children and earned a check on its first try. Circumstances—vacationing editor and a mother’s piano test—made the breakthrough serendipitous.
The British government offers grants to valued inventions via the Royal Society, ranging from 50 to 2500 dollars. Reports detail a portable oven for Austrian army field use, a camphor-secreting myriapod, and Hedin’s Central Asia findings including the Tarim River. New life preservers use cork grains sealed with lamp-black to resist water, aiding a wearable undersea suit. Celestial photography shows faint stars in the ring nebula, captured by Crossley on Mount Hamilton.
In a New York Tribane account a nan visitor asked how to mail a letter to a brother aboard the Majestic. The clerk advised addressing it simply to John Smith, passenger on board Incoming steamer Majestic, due in New York Dec. 12. The man returned with a corrected name as John Smith.
The article notes the United States national debt as about six dollars per five hundred pounds of wealth and observes a shift in naming children away from Bible names to popular novel names, signaling changing cultural trends.
A collage of comic snippets and quips from era humor columns. Lines include farmers debating spectacles, husbands hiding hats, and gibes about bohemian living. Several short exchanges feature wordplay and social quirks, reflecting light, satirical sketches from old newspapers.
In a cheeky London anecdote a woman and man joke over a bottle labeled poison as the man quips that it is the cure for seasickness, with light banter about danger and desire.
Humorous exchange from a Baltimore American strip or cartoon panel where a character asks why any ice chunk weighs thirty pounds and the ice trader replies that is the scale’s minimum. The gag plays on novelty weight and arithmetic.
Fragment from an 19th century Philadelphia Press item shows a boy in distress and another speaker noting his apparent pain. The dialogue hints at physical discomfort without specifying cause or outcome.
A humorous dialogue shows a farmer praising college education after his son attends college. The farmer plans to go to town to sell a truck, inviting another to join in calling out the college yell to impress Miss Brighteyes. The exchange reflects lighthearted rural-urban culture and the era’s slang.
A quote from Fliegende Blaetter describes a beggar at the door asking for any aid. The reply suggests giving remaining bath tickets, noting the cold weather makes it fitting. A fragmentary historical reflection on charity and practical aid.
A crowded editor’s office scene features Alkall Ike-Say and four others awaiting entry. Banter covers membership rules, exclusive clubs, and the balance of writing versus advertisement, with quips about rail collisions and stage money.
A collage of light humorous excerpts from early 20th century papers. It includes banter about magazine submissions with lines like with regrets and with thanks. A mock exchange features Wintergreen charming Mrs De Young by asking about premature gray hair. A joke pairs Janson’s kicking with his wife heating things up.
A collage of comedic panels shows He-Colonel Huggins in battle dress with smokeless powder hints, a lively Footlites crowd demanding refunds, a moon influence joke from Indianapolis and a belittling blast at a cartoonist. The punch adds vanity questions while a despondent lover laments youth.
A classroom uproar at Indiana University begins as a student admits he cannot recall all the skull bones. The professor asks for the names of the cranial bones and the student answers that he has them all in his head, provoking further laughter.
King Alphonso, once called delicate, has grown robust and tall. He spends weeks with his mother and sisters at St Sebastian, enjoys sea baths, is a strong swimmer, and shows high spirits. His daily routine includes military drill, study, state business with the Queen Regent and ministers, dinner, and tea.
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