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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1903
Page
5
A digest of humorous and editorial quips notes diverse topics. It touches on Carnegie and Wall Street optimism, royal and political antics, fashion fads, canine status, fraud exposure, cholera tactics, and Rockefeller religious reflections with light irony and period voice.
The article compares new steamship steerage upgrades to better tenement housing with dining rooms, privacy, and even a plane. It cites abuses of timber and stone and desert land laws, noting misappropriation by wealthy entrants and the need for repeal or amendment. Roosevelt urged rigid holding of remaining public lands for home builders and settlers. Land sales and values are detailed, urging Congress action.
Alfred Mosely, a South Africa gold and diamond fortunes maker, arrived in New York ahead of a British educators' committee studying American methods. He financed a 25 member British tradesmen mission last year to U S industrial centers and aims to keep England updated by teaching American techniques. He was born in Bristol forty eight years ago and is immensely popular.
A writer notes the absentminded Bishop of Truro Dr Gott during his Worcester tenure earned the nickname Deu For Gott. He once invited friends to dine and, before the meal, suggested a garden stroll. They admired flora when Gott opened a garden wall door and politely directed them home, bowing them out.
A playful exchange between Mrs Newliwed and Mr Newllwed centers on baking a batch of biscuits and guessing batch size. The dialogue, full of dialect quirks, includes aside jokes about attention and a playful misread of lines.
About 100000 men in Newfoundland, over half are fishermen who catch 150 million pounds of cod annually. They consume one fifth, and sell the remainder for 4.45 million dollars.
An Irish philosopher states that progress favors those who rise to act rather than those who sit and wait. The idea emphasizes initiative and proactive effort over passive patience.
Parental responsibility and discipline are discussed amid reflections on spoiled children. The essay notes that poorer families, despite hardship, often instill thrift, work, and education, contrasting with seemingly unfit rich parents and urging strong home guidance for children.
Editorial discusses revival of classic works through reprints in publishers’ programs. It asserts time selects enduring literature and cites Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne, Scott, Thackeray, Dickens, George Eliot, and Reade as unmatched icons. It lauds Ruskin’s phrase King’s Treasures and argues literature should be affordable and accessible to all generations. It contrasts wealthy upbringing shaping children with the duties of rich parents to avoid vanity and entitlement.
The article argues wealth’s extravagance tests taste and virtue but asserts that vice and idleness exist among all classes, not just the rich. It praises robust, well balanced women rising from varied backgrounds, credits widespread prosperity for female progress, and claims democracy strengthens virtuous womanhood more than masculine vigor.
The piece notes enormous annual timber losses from fires across the United States, totaling 20 to 50 million dollars yearly and about 600 million over two decades. It argues for a national program, noting partial state efforts and a proposed federal study, with existing patrols but no unified principles or data collection.
The piece urges prioritizing rest and sleep as essential for exhausted natures and vacations. It cites Dr. J. G. Holland on sleep as sacred and warns against waking early in damp air. Advocates full rest, then exercise if time allows, noting equal toil in ten hours with proper rest.
The article outlines eggs as a premier export and domestic staple. It notes Russia as the largest seller annually, with 1.5 to 1.8 billion eggs sent abroad in recent years, China as a major producer with vast home demand, and Great Britain as the largest foreign buyer. It cites 1901–1902 trade figures, domestic consumption in New York and Chicago, and asserts the egg industry rivaled cattle, hogs, and even wheat in value, surpassing gold and silver in most years since 1800.
Report from St Louis Post Dispatch describes Martha Washington Hotel efforts to be run by women. Women staff replaced by men after bellboys left and dish duties proved heavy. Management then employed men to enforce discipline and handle heavy labor as women workers struck.
An English proposal outlines a British engineer project to bore a canal through high ground near Loch Lomond. The plan includes frequent passing places and estimates the impact on communities along the Clyde to eastern Scottish ports.
The report lists distance savings for various regional routes. From east of England and northwest of Europe the saving ranges 529 to 238 miles. From Firth of Forth to west coast Scotland and beyond the Atlantic the saving spans 487 to 141 miles. Tyne ports to the St. Lawrence River would save 150 miles. From western Britain and northeast Ireland to central western Europe the saving is 377 to 98 miles.
The New York Tribune reports Dr Joseph Le Conte demonstrating eye blind spots with two coins held in each hand. He guides students to move them apart then back, noting blind spots when they vanish and reappear. He adds a joke about some people having no blind spot for money.
The article notes prolonged world oil consumption exceeding extraction while U S and Pennsylvania stocks show declines. It cites the Manual of Statistics and details Pennsylvania storage, with mentions of Virginia, West Virginia, and uncertain December 1902 figures.
A fragment notes an appeal for sympathy tied to a first Bachelor styled wig, followed by an abrupt sound sequence suggesting an unfinished sentence. The item hints at a personal or social scene, possibly a column snippet or a humorous aside in a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper page.
The text surveys the biophone and extreme microbial heat resistance, remarks on paving stone wear, and reports lighting efficiencies from mercury arcs, Geissler tubes, and other sources. It also notes mosquito breeding dangers, Empedocles malaria legends, and the Jesup expedition findings of Yakut and Siberian tribes with wealth and fur crafts, plus scattered market and peasant references.
The piece portrays Macedonian peasants under Turkish rule, describing a diverse population with Greeks in the south and Slavs in the north. It details oppressive taxation, forced labor, and violence by landlords and officials, while noting village life, poor farming methods, and a resilient peasant hospitality amid hardship.
A Denver Post verse laments earthly envy and hardship for laborers on the road. It urges patience and faith that final judgment will reveal true reward beyond wealth and worldly status. The poem counsels endurance, spiritual hope, and keeping from bitterness until the heavenly invitation arrives.
A worn wanderer with a criminal past seeks renewal after prison. A police intervention and charitable court aid yield a chance at honesty. He travels from Hosts to New York, finds work, and thanks his benefactor, declaring he wants his trade to reflect honesty.
A historical report describes widespread efforts to drive vagrants from towns as harsh winter conditions press on farms and railroads. It notes shortages of harvesters and wagon drivers, arrests of vagrants in multiple states, and organized labor camps as authorities seek to curb begging and unemployment.
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