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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1900
Page
5
State Journal argues last year taxes levy nearly 66000 remain due, potential debt around 118000 if expenses persist, and warns against assuming full year taxes can erase debt while expenses continue. It urges restraint and stresses libel risk for misrepresentation by newspapers and street orators in public discourse. Eugene linked to an impecunious orator drawing court scrutiny.
The Register defends Republican J L Taylor for county commissioner praising his business sense while omitting specifics. Opponent notes say Taylor pays little taxes and would not contribute to the large county levy, contrasting with local farmer experience and the high future costs for county expenses. J R Hill is cited as a Citizens candidate paying $113 tax.
A street corner speaker denounces a newspaper for differing opinions as it reaches hundreds of homes. He pours out venom to an audience of about a score, while the paper circulates across its field.
Andrew Carnegie writes in May Century Magazine that trusts benefit the country but the piece shows his view favors men like him. He notes he became a multi millionaire through tariff benefactions and accuses the public of funding favored government beneficiaries. The piece argues trusts are built on tariffs and that pooling by manufacturers harms consumers through protection.
Halem Journal notes partisan statisticians claim Marion and Lane counties have no indebtedness as incoming taxes will cover debts. The piece contends assets do not draw interest or halt interest, repeating an old refrain.
The Oregonian headlines that six thousand Multnomah voters are not registered. The Times Mountaineer hints at past Portland support for cash hand candidates. The paper expects registration to curb repeaters and illegal voting, forecasting a Multnomah turnout down by a few thousand.
Do not forget that before you can cast a vote at the coming state and presidential elections your name must be on the register. The time is now on to have your name put there. If not registered before May 15 you cannot vote. You can register be fore any notary public or jus tice of the peace free of cost, or at the courthouse in the county clerk's office. Do not neglect to register.
An odd analogy compares wrecked weasels in the Atlantic to a percent delaying treatment for digestive troubles. The piece urges early use of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters to cleanse impurities, strengthen nerves, and improve blood, claiming it cures stomach disorders. The ad notes a private revenue stamp on the bottle neck.
An advert promotes Electric Bitters as the cure for a run down, constipated woman with kidney trouble and skin eruptions. It claims the remedy cleanses the blood, strengthens nerves, brightens eyes, and restores a rich complexion, priced at 50 cents at WL DeLano's drug store.
A four year old girl sits in a meeting house as a preacher speaks and bees, cherries, broken baskets, and imagined puppies swirl in her thoughts. Her giggle erupts, drawing whispers from the congregation while she longs for cuddly warmth and playful mischief.
A dozen hardened men camp along a 300 mile Australian trail from Hops Valley to Woona Walla. Scott, once a gentleman and gambler, shelters a child left by a dying partner, guarding her against the mob’s impulses. Jim Agnew and others threaten. Scott remains calm, insisting the girl stays under his care. A tense standoff ends with a perilous choice as a gun is leveled at him.
In a rough frontier tale, Jim Agnew and Scott guard the young girl Ethel while pursuing a rich gold strike at Woona Walla and Brawling Creek. A sudden find promises fortune but Scott’s conscience drives a final, fatal choice to ensure a proper future for the child.
A fragmentary quip from the Cleveland Plain Dealer plays on sharing food and preference for crust versus rind. The line features dialect humor implying mutual aid and simple exchanges, reflecting a local newspaper’s flavor.
London News reports on Professor Reschide and his Naturwissenschaftliche Runds elan study of 36 dreamers aged 1 to 58. Findings: dreaming occurs in all sleep depths, deeper sleep recalls past experiences, light sleep links to daily events, comatose sleep may lack dreaming, non dreamers are physically deluded, moderate dreams linger longest in memory.
A legend explains the topaz stone's virtue. Theodosius kept a gong for grievances. a mother snake pleads for justice after a horned predator kills her nestlings. The emperor orders aid for the snake, and at dawn a gleaming topaz heals his sight as gratitude.
Samuel Mott of Boise City Idaho recalls extraordinary mining camp schemes where miners illegally intruded on rivals’ veins. He cites “Johnny Come Lately” guarding a claim, and a planned ruse to smuggle in surveyors, plus the Last Chance versus Tyler feud with smudge and smoke that backfired and endangered three miners.
The Omaha World Herald notes a railroad president, whether great or small, attends to every small accident and profit detail. A successful head manages details, faces directors at meetings, and often travels with passenger cars, not for leisure but for business.
A Washington Times item quotes strangers, who suggest Robert Fulton invented the steamboat, while locals in Pankin Ridge recall 8! Jones repairing the first steamboat in 1870 and the Nancy Ann’s famed voyage, asserting the area’s pride in an early boat.
The fragment shows Miss Firdie Pechls rejecting Howlett Boomer despite his wealth in advertising. A mail proposition offers a single placement in papers with guaranteed circulation at minimal cost, urging Miss Pechls to engage Boomer and sign for direct mail.
A young man asks to meet Mr Younger in a Chicago law firm, mispronounces the name, and the secretary challenges him. After a tense exchange about spelling and pronunciation, he insists on being introduced by her, culminating with him entering the private office.
The mint mark collection draws both specialists and amateurs by aiming for complete sets of perfect coins from all mints. Readers learn to spot tiny marks like 8, CC, O or the absence of a mint mark to identify Philadelphia as the mother mint and to count coins produced at each mint since 1794.
A white cat climbed a 60 foot high branch to escape a dog in Brooklyn. The twig broke and the cat fell to the ground on its feet and bounded away. The incident suggests a 60 foot drop does not injure a Brooklyn cat, per the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Theeler Smith leads the town, able to claim anything if not spoiled. Wheeler asks if He fen't spoiled yet, to which Heeler says no, a good fellow. Wheeler notes spoiled status remains possible, recalling Heeler's grandparents in Philadelphia.
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