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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1902
Page
9
A long column from Eugene Weekly Guard reflects on moral lessons, civic virtue, and social issues. It recounts a Toledo delivery boy who earns 2100 dollars from a generous stranger, a mother's firm counsel to a runaway, and a New York court case about child welfare over money, emphasizing duties to children and enduring virtue.
A Yaqui Indian from Torres Mexico is described as a skilled laborer when employed, but turns to raiding and clashes with Mexican troops when work is unavailable. The excerpt notes a transfer of his cactus to the New York Botanical Gardens and portrays the tribe as consistently unconquered, torn between labor and war.
A Japanese review invited readers to name European authors whose works they valued most. The referendum results list in order Darwin, Herbert Spencer, Schopenhauer, Goethe, Tolstoy, as reported by the London Globe.
A quirky, sensorily odd item notes Major Gants of Fairfield who is described as 36 years old, thirty pounds heavy, and eighteen inches tall. The passage mocks social norms, with a line about a man being trained by his wife and a farmer earning his tread by a hired man's sweat, then remarks on balancing sides of stories.
The Panama Canal will be 43 miles long and brilliantly lit from end to end by electricity. An army of 15,000 laborers will build it, with completion in fifteen years at a cost of 145 million dollars. The canal will charge one dollar per ton for transit, cheaper than the Suez rate, and will house massive dams at Chagres and Alba Juela to store flood waters, supply water for locks and power the system.
A concise note on how repartee functions as cross examination within legislative debates. It notes that both Senate and House discussions hinge on pointed exchanges that test claims and expose weaknesses. The piece hints at controversy over such rhetorical tactics in congressional discourse.
A historical plan describes a canal through the isthmus using a mountain pass and locks to raise vessels. It notes thirteen miles navigable from the Atlantic end, five and a half from the Pacific, with sixteen locks total and a final section near the Pacific coast. The project faces a major ridge at mile thirty three and a dam near Boblo to control Chagres River floods.
An American polar party tours Mancharia amid rising popularity. A farmer attending circus day leaves when the parade fails to suit him, hitching his wagon and returning home. The narrator muses on an unmarried man’s ignorance of dressmakers.
A tired pair, ferrier and Lucy, join a vast Mormon caravan marching toward Utah. After a roadside prayer, they are taken in by Elder Stanges and his followers. John Ferrier vows Lucy as his child as the group travels to build a new settlement around a towering temple.
An English writer recounts a curious border law quarrel over a railway station theft. A thief fingers a till from outside the ticket office, straddling two principalities, raising questions which side prosecutes. No case ever occurred. they only planned actions if the thief were captured.
Reports from the Siberian railway describe severe hardship for third class passengers especially native Chinese. In a bitter January and February temperatures plummeted to 40 degrees below zero, leaving crowds of Chinese travellers exposed on the cold tracks with many frostbitten. One night in February four Chinese travellers died and about fifty more suffered serious frostbite and exposure.
The passage notes monks grieving relatives and a Trappist unaware he cared for his own mother. It then shifts to Assyria Babylonia and primitive copper blocks. It mentions a banking system and medicines including cinchona salts salicylic acid mercuries and ether as dangers to bearing offspring.
A fragment discusses pineapple juice as a throat lubricant and links cone shaped fruit to bronchial relief. The note cites no medical authority and lacks verifiable evidence, with no named sources or dates to anchor the claim.
A fragment suggests a mineral supplement featuring Lact tuce described as refreshing cooling and easy to digest. It is promoted as a wholesome addition to sore foods.
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