World traveler Miles sparks calls for more missions
A wary view of Congress members citing 800 trusts in the U S and a claim that the masses shape trusts rather than classes. A Chicago soap maker fails for four hundred thousand with assets only half that. Memphis floods threaten as Mississippi rises to a record level. weather forecasters expect further height. An Iowa woman receives fifteen years for perjury in her husband’s murder trial amid grim justice.
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Chicago
Iowa
Wellesley Director Warns of Basketball Harm to Girls
The lady director of physical training at Wellesley College contends that the prevailing fad for basketball is causing calculable harm to the girls who play.
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Wellesley College
Portland Man to Be Hanged for Brutal Murder
Lester Belding of Portland is in jail under a death sentence to hang by the neck till dead Friday March 27. He has professed religion and been baptized. The crime was a brutal murder of his wife, and there is no hope of executive clemency.
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Lester Belding
Portland
Why We Are Agents for Fulton Compounds Cure Chrome Kidney Disease
A foggy ad claims Fulton compounds cure chrome kidney disease and lists notable backers and testimonials. It presents a series of names, roles, and places to imply legitimacy while asserting dramatic recovery stories. The piece underscores alleged dramatic cures and social proof to promote the treatment.
Two Standards of Morality in Dr Collinge Seduction Case
The Oregonian notes Dr Collinge, proponent of psychic vibration, faces arrest and bonds in Portland for seduction. Readers describe a stream of converts visiting his Abington building as they seek solace from the alleged amatory preacher, with many classes of society involved and a critical view of the era's moral double standards.
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Oregonian
Dr. Collinge
Portland
Good Samaritan Hospital
Hauasy
Losks
Amiles
Sunshine
California prune industry beginnings in Santa Clara Valley
A Frenchman planted four prune trees in 1870 near San Francisco, the sole orchard in the state. The Santa Clara Valley orchard began yielding in 1875 and grew to 14,000 in value in four years. By 1902 California produced about 150 million pounds of prunes, with the latest crop slightly larger than the prior year, enough to fill a Chicago to Buffalo freight train.
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California
United States
France
M. Pellar
Santa Clara Valley
San Francisco
Chicago
Buffalo
Helena Montana Closes Gambling After Historic Week
Helena Montana closes all forms of gambling for the first time in its history following a sweeping crackdown last week. The town was founded during a 18M gold rush era, with the gambling ban marking a notable shift in local policy.
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Helena
Montana
Keeping money in circulation boosts local prosperity
The passage argues that money kept at home circulates locally and helps communities avoid hard times, while funds sent abroad never return. It suggests prosperous towns are those that retain wealth locally, maximizing economic stability.
Roosevelt weighs racial politics in running mate choice
The piece notes Roosevelt exploring better treatment of African Americans in the South and ponders a colored running mate in the next election. It argues the party nominates black candidates only where it lacks power but could not elect them in the North, and that support for black officeholders is mainly a Southern phenomenon.
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Mr. Roosevelt
HOBOS HEADED OUT OF TOWN
The Daily Guard reports city police rounded up ten hobos from boxcars barns and streets and ushered them to the city limits at dawn. A beggar with asthma pleaded for California relief but was warned against such tricks. Police applaud the tactic as preventing crime and urge other cities to adopt it.
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Eugene
Brief News Highlights From The Daily Guard
Mrs. J. M. Woodruff dies suddenly in Salem. W. S. King and son Floyd fined for cruelty to animals by Justice Wintermeier in Friday’s court. Republican central committee to meet in Eugene to plan primaries for district convention delegates. Sheriff Thurman’s alibi clears him in the Hades saloon robbery case. Miss Edith Gilstrap dies in Tacoma of typhoid fever after visiting Eugene last August.
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Daily Guard
J. M. Woodruff
Salem
King
Floyd
Thurman
Edith Gilstrap
Eugene
Tacoma
Dusty streets and town notices in Grant's Pass
The text notes Carnegie's gift to the free library in Grant's Pass, arrivals of immigrants, a couple planning to live on Oak Street, a busy street vendor, a delayed northbound local, and visiting Lane County resident Wm. Stoopa. It mentions Albany Sheriff Withers murder suspect Elliott Lyons seeking religion, marble stone loading, a former Salem patient Fidelia Rigdon committed to the asylum, and local Belknap Springs arrival and family concerns with invalid mother.
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Andrew Carnegie
Lane County
Palouse
Albany
Elliott Lyons
Withers
W. W. Martin
Fidelia Rigdon
Salem Insane Hospital
Pleasant Hill
Kincaid
L. W. Brown
F. E Selover
L. T. Harris
Florence West
KR. S. Belknap
Belknap Springs
F. KR
Eugene Daily News Roundup of Local Movements and Visits
Pers Bais and J Withington return to Roseburg and other weekly notes from Eugene list residents and visitors. Local figures such as Hon. Binger Hermann, Postmaster C J Howard, and attorney Helmus W A Thompson travel, with social calls in Albany Cottage Grove and Salem. Widespread movement includes Miss Laura Miller to Portland and J M Howe to Junction City, plus political mentions of J M Shelley and J H Booth.
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Rosebary
Mies Vira Stewart
Albany
N. Grant
Junction City
Baginers
Jonh Kestiy
Edaiandson
Goshes
Frank LeRoy
Cottage Grove
Binger Hermann
Eugene
Henry Sporer
Coburg
C. J. Howard
F. A. Taylor
Plano
Brownsville
G. Graham
Bohemia
T. L. Davidson
Salem
L. H. Bingham
J. M. Howe
Laura Miller
Portland
A. Friendly
Kola Neis
Mason
Stella Robinson
J. C. Klopfenstein
BE. B. Linnen
Real estate transfers and labor proofs in Bohemia district
A long list covers transfers to C W Caldwell J V Thornton and others across Bohemia and nearby townships. Entries mention numerous tracts from 0.08 to 80 acres plus mining claims like Buffalo Tbex Modoc No 1 Eva Myrtle Twin and Crystal. Proof of labor filings note workers on Boston group Black Diamond Crystal Eva Myrtle Twin claims. Circuit Court action Wade Cadwell vs Thomas over personal property. Portland Journal notes Democrats unified amid Republican nomination tensions.
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Martha J. Thornton
C. W. Caldwell
Fow
W. Withers
Jesse V. Thornton
Lttie B. Dell
Rosa Buchanan
W. W
Carrie Hawley
C. L. Johnson
Buffalo
Bohemia
Sii
Gee
Bertah McQueen
Modoc
A. H. Guynn
V. A. Guynn
Northern Counties Investment ‘Trust, Limited
Charles Dickerson
Ipibo
Fiast
Rufus Mallory
J. F. Tuffs
Springfield
A. O
Mary M. Stevens
John Schneider
Elias Stewart
Eugene
C. Edd Jenkes
Crystal Consolidated Mining Co
Mountain Lion
G. W. Long
C. W. Wallace
Georgetown
H. Shacklett
J. O. Holt
James M
Mary
Keeney
Geo. W
Nellie Deane
James Keeney
J. P. Currin
Catherine Perkins
J. H. Perkins
M. Biven
Foresters of America
Geo. Rouse
B.C. Lockvreed
W. J. Robinson
Boston
Bohemia Mining
Dan Byrne
Bohemia District
EB. E. Lilly
Cieo
Portland Journal
First
Oregon Supreme Court affirms McLeod v Lloyd in Lane County
The Oregon Supreme Court affirms the lower court ruling for A. E. Wheeler in the McLeod versus Lloyd appeal from Lane County. A university train incident near Corvallis recounts a Freshman cap seized as a souvenir by a student nicknamed farmer, with a missing telegram to Marshal Stiles hindering recovery.
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Supreme Court of Oregon
McLeod
Lloyd
Lane County
A. E. Wheeler
U. C
Marshal Stiles
Corvallis
Change in partnership at the Guard publish ing business
Campbell sells his interest in the Guard publishing firm and the paper seeks prompt payment of overdue subscriptions to cover a nearly five thousand dollar obligation. Eugene, March 15, 1903.
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Guard
J. L. Campbell
Camppet Bros
Eugene
Walter Ross moves opera house office to Willamette Street room
Walter Ross, manager of the opera house and electrician, relocates his office from the Ingham building at Oak and East Ninth to the room once used by I. A. Taylor the piano man between Sixth and Seventh on Willamette Street. The opera house lease nears expiration and the fixtures will be removed as the historic place is dismantled.
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Walter Ross
Oper House
Ingham
Oak
East Ninth Streets
I. A. Taylor
Sixth
Willamette Street
Opera House
Old Place
University basketball ends season with O. A. C. game
Indoor athletics finish at the University as the basketball team disbands for the season after facing O. A. C. last Friday. A new winter athletics program will form yearly to compete for Northwest honors beginning next season.
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Northwest
Hurrah for Schneiders Arrive in Lane County
Three large Schneiders families from Emporia Kansas arrive this afternoon to settle in Lane county joining numerous Schneidere and kleinen Schneidere. The arrival is hailed as a valuable addition to the local community. A London motor cyclist rode ten miles near London Saturday in thirteen minutes and thirty seconds. The block from Matlock corner to First National Bank is 334 feet. at that pace the cyclist would cover ten miles in about five seconds. Wind favors New Orleans in the ongoing flood situation, blowing downriver and out into the area.
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Lane County
London
Eugene Street
Matlock
First National Bank
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