No title found in Eugene weekly guard page clippings
A collage of humorous opinions and notes from Eugene Oregon readers. The column surveys figures, jokes, and social commentary on figures like P T Barnum heirs, General Funston, Nikola Tesla, Edison, Carrie Nation, and Budgets. It discusses farm labor shortages, rural delivery, and city versus country life trends with brief mentions of agriculture, sanitation, and public policy. The piece blends satire and social observation across many topics.
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Kansas
Nebraska
Advertising Truths From Periodicals On Business Growth
A piece promoting consistent newspaper advertising as a method to reach vast audiences. It argues that speaking to the public about stock as to one customer grows a business, with emphasis on manufacturing, profit, and the idea that regular ads attract more customers than sporadic efforts.
Regal thrift across Europe and Asia in monarchs markets
A Cincinnati Enquirer report surveys royal money habits from the Kuselan to the Sultan, and from the Belgians to Japan. It notes ex President Kruger’s wealth in England, monarchs who invest in stocks and Panama, and the Mikado’s exclusive imperial bank. The piece contrasts frugal rulers with speculative financiers and ends with a tale of a temperamental Japanese employer testing ship travelers.
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United States
Bank of England
Europe
Kruger
England
London
Martalan
Alexander II
Alexander
Queena Alexandra
Wales
Constantinople
West Indies
Congo Free State
King George
Austria
Japan
Imperial Bank of Tokyo
Crowns Pawned Through English History for Cash
The crown of England has been pledged multiple times to raise funds. Henry II Henry V Edward III and Richard II used pawn, merchants of Flanders and London held it as security for various sums, Edward III dealt it to the Bishop of Winchester for 67500, and Charles II hoped to pledge it for personal use if possible.
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England
Henry IL
Henry V
Reward II
Richard Il
Flanders
London
Edward Oll
Winchester
Charles Jr
Old fame or flame cited in Philadelphia Press
A fragment notes people use the term old flame to describe something costly to maintain, with a quip about burning money in reference. The line attributes the idea to a Philadelphia Press remark, without full context or corroborating details.
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Wille
Philadelphia Press
Oak Trees Do Excellent Water Lifts During Leaf Season
A curious note describes oak trees absorbing up to 23 tons of water over five months while in leaf. It adds a startled aside about a hidden man being hard to notice, suggesting a joke or proverb about appearances.
Strange Hiring Tests Show Employers’ Odd Ways
A wholesale house sought a reliable manager and tested applicants with a mail delivery ruse, train changes, and time table focus. Only one succeeded, earning 1500 dollars yearly after proving perseverance. Other firms use tricky accounts to expose reading flaws and tests by professional shoppers to gauge clerks. A Third street wholesalers firm also employs traveling tests to evaluate staff.
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Third Street
Race of White Indians in Peru and Brazil
An article recounts Belgian traveler M. Van Montanacken finding a white-skinned Lorenzo tribe in the Amazon region straddling Peru and Brazil. The nomadic group tattoos less, wears minimal clothing, and faces population decline. The piece also mentions Pekin bells and a humorous quip from a Kansas City Star caption about a wife and husband.
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M. van Montanacken
Peru
Brazil
Europe
Royal Geographical Society of Anvers
Montanaeken
Amazon Country
From Poorhouse to Palace Chapter 11 Summary
Frank dies in the night after Mary and Ella comfort him and their mother Mrs. Howard. Mary becomes guardian to Ella as the small household decays, while Billy Fender and Widow Bender face charity and duty. townsfolk plan burials and ponder orphan fates as Ella and Mary face an uncertain future.
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Frank
Mary
Bill Bender
Allie
Franky
George Moreland
George
Billy Bender
Mrs. Troward
Mrs. Howard
Ella
Chicopee Common
Widow Bender
Billy
Laut
Tong
Aleep
Mrs. Johnson
Alice
Billy Fender
Mary Judson
Ella Campbell
Mrs
Reassurance and witty exchange in a Washington Star exchange
The Washington Star features a bard who laughs off jokes about spring poems. He claims memehary has read them with proof. The snippet also notes that river bullion owned by the government is often hard pressed for moper and that money talks as a universal language.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Washington Star
Tolling Bell Draws Crowd to Campbell Mansion
In Chic opet the tolling bell gathers villagers to the Campbell mansion within hours of the widow and her son interring the humble grate. In a marble room, Elle lies asleep beneath rosebuds and folded hands as mourners lament the young girl’s beauty and the mother’s grief.
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Cilapter IV
Chicopet
Campbell
Everyday Matters by an Original Genus Reflections
A humorous column riffs on daily life habits and social quirks. It muses on piano as not true music, golf popularity, misfit chores, and gendered observations. Various vignettes poke at aging, vanity, courtship, honesty, and reform minded ideas in a light, satirical tone.
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Eugene Weekly Guard
Bell Bros., Proprietors
Eugene
Oregon
Weert
Russell
Sage
P. T. Barnum
General Funston
Variock
Nikola Tesla
Mr. Edison
Post Office Department
Funston
Carrie Nation
David
Carrie
Dave
New Steel Corporation
Mr. Carnegie
Hia
Department of Agriculture
Mwe
Chicago
Northwest
Congress
Butler
Pennsylvania
West Chester
Mann
Treasury
Alis Iene
Addi
Nobely
Curtin Publishing Company
P Jess
Enngjland
France
America
the Merchant
China
Pekin
Tartar
Yong Lo
Waulch
Mandrute
Kansas City Star
Palace
Mary J. Holmes
Aaid Billy
William Bender
Bitty
Mrs. Campbell
Min Howard
Tonnah
Hannah
Y Howard
Tomas
Mrs. Lincoln
Hannah Top
Atchison Globe Lights
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