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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1902
Page
9
Public interest in heresy trials wanes as commentary meanders through satirical quips on boodle, mind reading, and high society foibles. The column touches political cartoons and global wonders while ribbing wartime and domestic topics with gossip flavored humor.
The Chicago Federation of Labor questions an age limit of 45 for workers, noting many industries hire and promote beyond 35 or 45. The piece argues that productive years extend past 40 to 60 with skill needed, and urges further investigation to avoid barring capable workers.
A satirical tale traces a land swarmed by historical novels invading books, magazines, and papers. Readers chase fact to excess, women read recipes, men study ledgers, and children beg for tables, until the moon itself fears to shine.
A young man in the old city hall, irate at a telephone operator, is teased by the reply I’ve seen your picture you’re at the old city hall. The caller boasts of knowing who he is but the operator says the photo appears on a lobster can. The prank ends with light humor from St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
A nervous girl describes her ailment to a doctor saying the routine of answering calls wears her out. She constantly hears the word hello at work and even repeats it in sleep and during prayers, a condition she attributes to her telephone job.
Notary Angelo Alvit of Alatri marries a year old wife to Sardinia aged 10. He boasts a great grand child from a prior marriage. His mother knit a pair of silk stockings for Pope Pius IX when she was 103.
Cuban railroads remain bound by their charters to carry mails at no charge. The obligation persists as part of the official mandates guiding state transportation services.
George Megrew born Wooster Ohio 1873 left school to work at street level. He became purchasing agent for the Carnegie Company with a $7000 salary and later moved to Cleveland. His life story traces from Denver cash boy to Washington paperseller, pageship offer declined, to Frick clerkship, and eventual partnership in the steel company. He now resides in a Euclid and Rosedale home while pursuing real estate and charitable work.
Mr. Trevail, new president of the Society of Architects, laments London’s narrow streets and dense commercial blocks after visiting Europe and America. He says London’s vast but cramped mercantile palaces leave little room to notice design or detail, contrasting with other metropolises.
A scattered collection notes beekeeping yields seacoast acres in Britain and church holdings in Italy. It cites a railway distance in Kraspoairs, wasps making papier mache, England insurance losses, Brazil rubber yields, Alpine Club deaths, Chinese brush letters, Norwich salt springs, Greenland and Iceland trade, Siberia exports, and the Pahonina tribe famed for tattoo adornment.
Vera and Dysart exchange veiled confrontations as a forbidden desire tests restraint. Sedley confronts extortion while Dysart plots under cover, guiding Grunch to hide evidence. A night ascent ends with bodies moved through a remote chamber, leaving peril and questions in the dawn.
A pot-boiler seller visits a shrewd broker offering a sea scene and treasure, torn between art and appetite. The seller names about one hundred dollars, the broker offers three dollars, and the seller claims another buyer is only offering five cents, asserting his own judgment of art.
Paris Messenger reports a forgotten street in Paris named Rue d Olivet discovered during widening of Rue Vanean. The uninhabited lane has no paving stones, is about two meters wide, ends blocked, and was previously called Rue Polivet. No record of its existence in directories until days ago.
King Edward kept bound newspaper cuttings for each child at birth, later handed to them as they reached maturity. The Prince of Wales started from day one, compiling volumes dating from birth for all his children.
An obituary style fragment recalls Kate Greenslow and Kate Greenaway and a proposed endowment for a children's hospital in London. The piece then shifts to a moral reflection on memory and a preacher’s call, concluding with commentary on political ticket straightness.
Grunch bursts in with news that Michael Sedley, thought dead or at least vanished, has been seen near Dysart’s estate. Dysart, revealing a storm of recognition and fear, recalls their shared crime and debates whether Sedley is alive or dead.
In a moonless garden Tom Peyton sneaks into the ruin to fetch a letter. Inside Dysart attacks a stranger with a bludgeon. Peyton bursts in and stuns Dysart, then urges Seaton to rush to the ruin where a dead man lies and danger remains.
A veteran of the hat trade discusses how hat making shifted since 1850. Silk dress hats arrived in 1843, Kossuth popularized self hats, and by 1858 the derby spread through America with English tourists aiding its rise. Early hats were imported. Americans later led in production with Stetson and others, combining handcraft with emerging machine work.
Prince Chilkov, Russia’s minister for ways, began with a humble start as an ordinary mechanic at a Liverpool locomotive works. He rose through laborer, railway guard, and station-master roles before returning to Asia. He climbed the Trans-Caspian Varsovie systems to inspector general and ultimately became minister of railways.
A vivid fragment recounts a dashing Englishman who arrived in Canada in 1838, claimed thousands of acres, and began a homestead. He wore long curls and helped with building by cutting timber for the fireplace and mixing mortar, illustrating stories of frontier ambition and wealth.
Incoherent OCR text shows stammering courtship phrases about marriage and life insurance, with stray references to Heidel and a Queen's state bond. The readable bits sketch a lab setting at an unnamed university and a curious mix of phrases without clear narrative.
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