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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1901
Page
4
Poetic vignette from Woman's Home Companion describing autumn landscape imagery. Rich sensory lines evoke hills swamps haze and horizon tones, with distant geese calls and wind como ening to a dreamy, lovesick mood.
A girl named Blossom and a boy named Eddie share a bittersweet goodbye as he heads to New York then to military duty. In Cuba a young captain Mason is wounded and saved by Blossom the nurse. He vows to return with a regiment, and they plan marriage once he musters out, ending with a playful, hopeful kiss.
Jack Haverly famed stage figure dies at St Mark's Hospital Salt Lake City after months of illness heart disease primary cause. Born Bellefontaine Ohio about 1843 he rose from peddler to theatre mogul owning Chicago and other cities theaters income once up to ten to twenty thousand daily. Fortune at times estimated at half a million. later engaged in mining, known for generosity honesty and devotion to wife.
A luggageless traveler emerges from New York Central station as hackmen press him for fares. Thomas B. Reed, ex Speaker, moves on with a placid face, while drivers shout destinations and offer his bag to misdirected crowds. Reed ends by calmly reaching his home, leaving onlookers surprised.
King Edward names George Hieary Hugh Marquis of Cholmondeley Lord Great Chamberlain pending House of Lords confirmation amid multiple claimants. If confirmed he will oversee Westminster Abbey ceremonies and the invitation net for the coronation next year. Also contains unrelated Life Magazine quotes and a remark about a man appearing insignificant beside his wife.
The United States leads in savings per capita, with Britain at £16 and Denmark at $52. Switzerland and Norway follow, then Germany and the United States at $22. Austria shows $16, while Russia and Spain lag with 0 and 50 cents respectively. banking capital in savings is not fully shown.
A collection of horticultural tips and scientific curiosities. It covers shrub color enhancement with iron filings, potato starch reduction by blossom removal, a population decline among French Lodias, Spain adopting Greenwich time, dragonfly metamorphosis documented with photographs, the ibis in Egypt as a substitute for travelers, an optical rainbow over the Great Salt Lake linked to sand spherules, and a humorous Texas justice scene involving a christening fee and a jail term.
A cowboy Wilson sought a christening from Justice of the Peace Bill Scruggins for his newborn son. Lacking a minister, the justice improvised a slang filled ceremony swearing witnesses to truth and naming obligations, in a vividly remembered Texas roadside scene full of old time humor.
Desiccated vegetables are entering markets to aid protectors and hunters in cutting weight and bulk. The War Department has tested dried white potatoes carrots and sweet potatoes as water free foods with soaking required before use. Drying preserves nutrients and yields muscle forming elements comparable to wheat flour, with regional differences showing eastern varieties richer in starch and poorer in muscle nutrients than California crops.
A Puneh parodist notes garden tasks outsize novel writing in a humorous vignette. He records tending the greenhouse and gooseberries while musing on yellow flowers and purple dreams. The narrator ends with a resolve to care for geraniums and fulfill daily duties despite life’s spiritual moss.
In a quiet London setting a host instructs a servant to distribute sherry by seal color, labeling the best as after dinner and the inferior with soup. The scene unfolds with guests arriving and the boy delivering orders as dinner progresses, a subtle tension underscored by the careful distinctions.
A local tale recounts Brother Dickey describing Breer Williams who prayed for rain for six days and nights. The drought washed away his mule and damaged his house, then sun burned his mule on credit, ending with a fire and drought leaving him with nothing but a ruined home. He swore in private leading to an appearance before a special committee after being expelled from church.
A North China Herald quip notes a Chinese man answering that with idols scarce, people would worship Mexican dollars, claiming it to be genuine worship. The remark reflects cultural humor and coinage context in the region.
A collage of humorous quotes and brief exchanges from various papers. Jokes about editors, poetry, summer athletics, log splitting, and society life mix with puns and light banter. Notable quips include a debate over attributing poetry, an editor’s joke, and a pair of lines about travel with a rain apparatus.
A dialogue scene features Hamk asking why a cow stares, Keta hints at shared parentage, The Father thanks a rescuer for saving his daughter, The Stranger jokes about billing, a New York specialist, and a line about being ruled. The Gossip column tone echoes across a mishmash of quips about coffee, ice, and leftovers from Detroit Free Press.
The fragment cites a Puck quip on the twentieth century’s best advertised novel and a Sart Set exchange about reading tiny type. It then shifts to a social scene with Charlesion, Sterningworth, and a betrothal, noting engagement gossip and a man granting a fiancée the power to pick his neckties.
A collage of wry exchanges from old papers features lovers downcast over letters blue with memory, a nurselike admonition to keep busy, sharp quips about nosiness, marital hints, and a dining joke about horse meat in a brisk, period voice.
A collage of brief quotes from Philadelphia papers shows light political banter and social snippets. The pieces include remarks about patriotism and currency value, work attempts of a whistler trainee, and a joke about a public figure named Mr Miller.
A dialogue underscores a plea for fair self narrative in court. A lawyer and speaker debate whether allowing the prisoner to tell his own story would yield greater conviction from the audience.
A moneyed Detroit man is surprised by a stranger who asks him to endorse a note. After questioning why he should trust him, the wealthy man agrees, remarking the caller chose him because he would be the least known to others. The piece ends with a wry note that a deaf and dumb man talks straight.
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