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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1901
Page
9
A compact selection of satirical items and notices notes Funston, the Kaiser, and the Czar in dispatches. It touches on a possible dry goods trust, Sing Sing renamed Ossining, Queen Victoria celebrations in Canada, and a corset teen story. It closes with remarks on Nicholas I and a thwarted plot at St. Petersburg.
A reflection on Tsarist fears and paranoia amid looming threat of war and assassination. The piece questions the burden of power and contrasts it with ordinary people's contentment, noting the era’s hygienic shift away from starving the body for mental gain.
Myrtle May Flanagan, a New York girl, took carbolic acid and died rather than remain an old maid. She told her mother that her chum Louisa Hartmeyer had made a similar vow.
A music teacher explains that violin, harp, and banjo strings are not cat gut. He notes mouse gut is rarer and less suitable, while most strings come from sheep skins cured in Italy. He cites U.S. makers producing good quality strings, though not yet matching Italian standards.
The London Express notes MPs in Britain Italy and Spain receive free railway passes while Portugal once paid MPs ten shillings daily until 1802. Today Portuguese lawmakers may be paid up to fourteen shillings tenpence daily, but overall British MPs enjoy few privileges despite high importance.
The text notes Montana had twenty two counties with Choteau Dawson and Custer forming half the state area and voting electors. compares UK Ireland Scotland prison rates. ends with social observation about married couples and letters.
In Sandersalva Hungary Generich and his brother Franz wed Kathrea with Katlza and Marie with Marie Both couples are legally married but a priest mixed the brides and grooms resulting in a double mis wed and a pending court decision The father of the brides delayed ruling by declaring he would not bless either union until the law settles the matter leaving the brides temporarily without husbands.
A London Telegraph note reports a demonstration proving ineffective as brides weep yet refuse to sway their father's choice. They vow to accept any decision and depart with either Generich or Franz if allowed, leaving the husband selection to their father.
Col Sim Baston of Cheyenne recalls waiting sixty days for a government check after an 119 debt. He was told all enumerators were paid and his claim was rejected as a crook. Years later a letter carried a $119 census check which he cashed and promptly lost.
A compact survey tracing surnames to three roots: parental names with ing and son forms, place or locality, and personal traits or occupations. It covers patronymics like Wilson and Williamson, toponymics such as York and Atwood, occupational names like Smith and Taylor, and explains Norman influence and the dropping of de after Henry VI. It notes animal and town based names and the shift after the Norman conquest.
Mary Howard, regarded as ugly by family, becomes nurse to ill youth George Moreland aboard the Windermere. He offers care and secretly favors Ella, while Mary earns trust through tenderness, sparking jealousy from Ella and tension with the mother Mrs. Howard. The voyage ends with George departing to Boston as Mary and Frank face hardship ashore.
Hiram Cronk of Herkimer County New York the sole surviving veteran on the 1812 pension rolls born 1800 entered in 1814 with the mass militia now at 101 remains active, rarely leaving his locality. A Cronk family with long lifespans held a 100th birthday reunion for him with over a hundred relatives. A lifelong Democrat Cronk voted for Andrew Jackson and Grover Cleveland and quips that once he reached Cleveland it was time to quit voting. He lives with his youngest daughter in his birthplace area and remains hale despite advancing years.
A South Hope resident reports a cache of preserved papers including deeds and old bills, with one dated 1720, found in a cabinet more than 200 years old passed down through generations. The note ends with a riddle about clergymen and a clock.
A Chicago Chronicle report recounts uncanny cases of the living appearing dead and the dead seeming alive. It describes a Russian cemetery wedding beside a grave, a rider dying after winning a bicycle race, a dead man steering a derelict ship, and plague inspectors finding a man who had died but was tucked among sleeping players.
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