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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1901
Page
9
A fragment from Eugene weekly guard mixes satirical notes on pot cures and college hazers with reflections on London Zoo, King Victor Emmanuel, and Afghan Ameers. It quotes Cleveland on cadet roughhousing and praises books as lifelong education, ending with a wary note on a twentieth century trend.
A Kansas doctor, formerly state commissioner, discovers alfalfa seed extract makes people gain weight. Read about the curious fattening potion said to fill wardrobes and lift furniture demand, with no patent or profit sought. The tale links Asiatic seeds to a modern plumpness craze.
A Louisville Times recounts two late 19th century Kentucky anecdotes. In the first, a wealthy man’s heirs contest a will after a superstition driven by a dream of signing it, as a lawyer enters with a bag to take money. In the second, a vain woman tester taunts lawyers, then is removed for saucy behavior toward her husband.
The article states Russia has about thirty two thousand miles of wires, roughly half state and half private. Subscriber growth is rapid and key intercity lines are planned or completed. Baltic provinces boast large systems but lack full interconnection due to government restrictions, where state phones exist.
It was before the fall when Adam and the universal mother debated trimming expenses. Adam insists, with strong emphasis, that laundry bills must not be cut, while the rest of their expenditures should be pruned to fit their means.
In Philadelphia a father confronts his daughter's engagement to Mr Pinchpenny and jokes about his spying, noting the suitor's frugality as a reason he objects while the daughter questions the remark.
Damp houses near undrained land may become more habitable by planting laurel and sunflower nearby. A saying notes a miser should leave his gok at the grave edge. The phrases imply cleverness and wisdom in handling engagements and possessions despite imperfect phrasing.
This verse from Woman's Home Companion laments love's departure with somber gray days and quiet nights. The speaker recalls watching Love pass, yearning for slower steps and deeper feeling, as discontent grows with time. A reflective, nostalgic mood marks the poem's brief meditation on loss.
In Pineville two feuding families the Campbells and Prices see their feud soften as young Mabel Campbell and Charlie Price fall in love. A lost yellow kitten triggers a rescue in the woods and, despite old enmities, the pair grow close. The village learns the kitten’s role in uniting the families and the planned Easter Tuesday wedding.
A Century writer recalls Eduard Kemenyi the Hungarian violinist who sided with Brahms in Weimar 1853 He impressed Liszt and shared gypsy roots and Schubert tones His playful joke about echoing an American phrase ended in a reunion when he recognized the author in 24 years later in a Steinway Building rehearsal room, crying out the remembered phrase Ching-a-ling-a-dardee, Chebung cum Susan.
A plant called the coughing bean Eutada tusslens is a tropical native that resists dust. When its breathing pores clog dust gases accumulate inside and trigger an audible cough and sneeze, turning the leaf red as chlorophyll sinks. It is sometimes grown as a houseplant and room sweeping stirs its coughing. The plant breathes through leaf stomata, with millions of openings on the leaf undersides regulating gas exchange.
A hotel keeper, long a collector, owns what may be the world’s oldest furniture. He has amassed 4000 match boxes and commissioned a skilled cabinet maker to craft a room's outfit from them, including a writing table with smoking apparatus, a fire screen, a cabinet, a chair, and other small articles.
Mrs Linguist seeks divorce claiming sleep talking by her husband. Lawyer Soorem counters no cruelty as grounds. A Baltimore American quip notes that a man neglecting his own business is untrustworthy to run others.
A collection of curiosities and notes covers lives in London servants, Paris dinners, Persian towers of silence, early suspension bridge ideas, and population density data. It mentions isolated women in London, cherry trees for dessert, dawn alarms via telephone in France, San Salvador’s earthquake history, buffalo counts, and global sinking of coastlines with speculative continental loss.
A Philadelphia Record feature explains a method to compute the weekday for a given date and notes broader queries on calendar facts. It covers the Jan 15 1868 example and mentions Finnish policy updates, archival tidbits, and literary notes, including Alice in Wonderland sales and translations, plus a poem excerpt.
A cold gusty December evening finds a man battling wind and seeking the time. He spots a gentleman and politely asks the hour. The stranger pauses, removes a glove, unbuttons, and produces his watch amid the biting wind.
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