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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1909
Page
6
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A baby sustained burns on one side of the face after coming into contact with boiling grease. Medical ointment was applied but the child’s condition worsened with fever and swelling as doctors monitored possible lasting disfigurement.
A mother recounts a severe scald incident on her ten month old baby and how three boxes of Cuticura ointment healed the facial burn in five weeks leaving no trace. She notes the prior doctor treatment with greasy salve failed, and that Cuticura helped cure three other children as well. March 22 1908, South Shields England.
Cuticura World’s Favourite Emollient offers a regimen of a hot bath with Cuticura Soap followed by Cuticura Ointment and a dose of Cuticura Pills to relieve distressing skin conditions. The ad claims fast relief from itching burning and scaly humours and suggests requesting a free Cuticura Book from corporate offices in Boston and international agents in Paris Sydney Cape Town Natal. The copy emphasizes global availability and official sole proprietorship.
Most American colleges sending extra parties will dispatch representatives to Milgor Valley to investigate prehistoric mound contents during the upcoming summer season.
The Eugene and Pacific Electric Railway Company reveals a prospectus to build an electric route from Eugene to Florence harbor. Engineers Haines and Gamble, with Lohman & Co., endorse the line noting low grades and easy terrain. Freight from nearby mills and future mills along the route could fund operations, with strong passenger traffic anticipated from lake regions and farm areas. Landowners along the line are urged to invest, with promises of 100 to 300 percent increases in land value and shared dividends, prioritizing local investors.
The passage notes the new secretary of the treaty as wealthy and educated, with years in commercial work. Secretary of the interior Micehard A Daillager is described as a lawyer of notable standing. Seattle figure G von L Meer, named secretary of the navy, is portrayed as a capitalist and manufacturer with ties to large firms. Franklin MacVeagh of Chicago is mentioned as a merchant.
A man visited Hall & Shumway’s plumbing shop and ordered a hot water heater to be sent to Japan after seeing the firm’s advertisement in The Guard. Earlier, S. H. Friendly had orders from Texas and Alaska, also from ads in The Guard.
The steam schooner R I D Inman owned by Loop Lumber Co. went ashore on Dexbury reef near Bolinas on Saturday night. The captain misread a beach brush fire as a distress signal and altered course, driving the vessel onto the rocks. The captain and crew survived by walking ashore.
Denver March 22 Governor Shafroth says he will convene a special session if the Democratic majority fails to redeem campaign pledges. The unspecified pledges include direct primary laws, a railroad commission, Australian ballot, public service commission, banking guaranty, and good roads legislation. Thirteen executive days remain in the current session.
M L Kreamer of the C E Scott Company brings a large piece of 95 percent pure sulphur from his Louisiana home near Lake Charles. The mining method uses wells 500 to 600 feet deep with ten inch pipe and steam from 60 boilers melting sulphur into a liquid like molasses before it cools and hardens. Lake Charles mines are the world’s second largest and a major regional industry. Direct from the mines samples of crude turpentine from the same region are on display at the Scott Company windows.
Local promoters in Eugene push an electric railway to Florence and beyond, arguing it will vastly boost land values along the line and draw heavy passenger traffic to and from Coos Bay. They pledge stock funding only after sufficient pledges, with outside capital to follow, and claim the project could become a transcontinental outlet and a harbor of refuge in Siuslaw Bay as ships and ocean steamers gain easier access to the Atlantic via Panama.
This afternoon about 3 30 Vaughn's team of gray draft horses bolted from the millrace throwing him from the wagon. They dashed through town and crashed into a street sprinkling wagon at East Eighth and Oak. One horse was knocked down. a mare suffered a broken shoulder and must be killed. The mare was worth over 200 dollars.
Sheriff Bown traveled to Medford Saturday night after Ada Jackson, a principal in the Cottage Grove affair with Fay Allison and George Dyer. They were arrested and released on $500 bonds to await circuit court. The sheriff reported he would leave Medford with the girl for tonight’s train, as she faced a witness role against Allison and Dyer.
An advertisement asserts that no limit exists to what a woman will do to regain beauty. It touts Lane's Family Medicine or Lane's Teale as the most effective aid for preserving a beautiful skin and restoring rosy cheeks, available at all druggists and dealers.
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