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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1902
Page
9
A compact column reflects on insincerity and habit like a bill collector. It muses on Hetty Green’s silver wedding, Niagara Falls, and press quality, then shifts to immigration, Harvard, and the need for clear speech. Labrador expansion and population shifts wrap the light editorial note with economic curiosity.
A reflective piece contrasts a widow and her seven children with a rich lady who seeks to adopt a child for love, then shifts to calls for a permanent census service and its potential to modernize data collection. It notes expansions in census scope, the need for experts, and the upcoming challenges of counting insular possessions. The article also surveys topics from sparrows in the Rockies, sunflowers as water pumps, to Mount McKinley and weather forecasting insights.
The piece notes St Louis Union Station as the country’s largest station with thirty tracks and twenty seven acres of property. It also cites Boston Union Station as the next largest and reports the ongoing Southern Union Station project in Boston begun in 1807 with walls built and steelwork in place.
The President spoke to a friend about Alice Roosevelt saying she does not stay indoors. She walks miles, takes long hikes at her pace, rides and drives, skis and shoots though she dislikes shooting. He notes outdoor exercise is essential and she has plenty of it.
A humorous note suggests a peculiar odor around Miss Cobwigger, with uncertainty whether she rode in a car or cleaned her dress, as reported in the New York Sun.
Historical data notes ten farms identified in Cuba in 1800 with an average size of 145 acres. Each farm cultivated about 15 acres on average, indicating limited arable use relative to total land area.
A well drilled to 500 feet in the Colorado desert is discharging hot water steam and volcanic stones. The Congo railroad fare for two miles is 100 dollars or one dollar per mile.
An elderly wealthy man explains to a friend that a young man sold him an advertising idea for 1000 dollars which later yields over a million dollars in profit. The story, told by the Washington Star, highlights the power of a single brilliant suggestion to cut through mass media and attract public attention.
In Winchester era celebrations nationwide overshadow the town of Wantage birthplace of King Alfred. The piece notes the centenary of Alfred’s birth was marked long ago with a statue in Vantage market place and the reorganization of an ancient grammar.
A Swiss tailor Meier’s wife bears a child that dies shortly after birth. She advertises for a newborn, a woman brings a baby and they exchange. A second baby is adopted, a further baby swap ensues, with two women claiming the same child. The magistrate must decide the rightful mother amid three claims and a tangled sequence of swaps.
Cleveland Plain Dealer recounts a quirky exchange where a man defends his preference for Maud over Minnie. Bissinger probes motives, then compares conquests among his five sons, humorously preferring Maud as the sensible choice while noting Minnie’s perceived lure. The banter ends with a sharp line about choosing one path.
A brief editorial note notes that four percent of sailing vessels and seventy one percent of steamships are lost in a year. It then humorously contrasts a boy’s idea of a big man with a town bearing a man’s name, implying civic memory over nautical peril.
In Timperley a curate's hopes for Miss Lacroix are dashed by a bishop and rector demands. A dying loom worker confesses a factory death while Freeman endures a delirious scene in a vat dyed room, as the village reels with gossip and danger from chemical works.
Freeman wanders through a smoky village as chimneys puff poison air. laborers depart for Lacroix and Steinhardt's Chemical Works, their faces and beards dyed blue green or red. A prior death and delirium cast a shadow, while sleep offers only partial recovery from the night’s tension.
A naval officer recalls a near mishap at his wedding when he repeated the line about endowing worldly goods but his bride did not echo. He quips that she did not lose a blessed thing, a lighthearted anecdote from the Washington Star. Other snippets recount an Irish Bull tale about Patrick and a London Pall Mall correspondent, plus a vignette of a noisy omnibus baby and a college student in the sycamore class.
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