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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1900
Page
9
A mosaic of brief items notes Spain’s wheat crop, a monkey shortage in America, and youth culture trends. It comments on the St Louis fairs, the Duke de Abruzzi’s pole quest, mosquito zeal, Hawaii immigration, and annexation labor. It discusses census apportionment impacts, rising influenza deaths, Gretna Green trends, and a Pittsburgh Stephen Foster monument.
The article honors PF Nicholls Crouch the Baltimore composer of Kathleen Mavourneen noting his English birth and later life in America. It argues a working map question about marriage costs for laborers, citing a Chicago contractor and detailing annual expenses for a laboring family to claim farming offers steadier, more reliable work and better pay.
A brief exchange features a woman worried a man will marry her for wealth while The Deacon reflects on time drawing closer to eternity. The Wrinter counters with a cynical joke about nearing payday, revealing tension over money, marriage, and fate in terse remarks.
A man talks endlessly to a tired young woman as the mantel clock marks late hours in a region with six month nights. He finally decides it is time to leave, while she coyly hints it is much later than that.
In New Zealand scarce flat land leads to singular cottages built on rocky backdrops and odd outbuildings. A bootmaker’s shop hides in wild backcountry, crafted from sacking and sapling frames with a bongie chimney. The piece notes speculation and hard lessons from lonely colonial life.
An 1896 Berlin cuckoo clock tale unfolds with a traveler confined by sleepless math obsessions. He obsesses over timings, ratios, and fractions as the clock “cooks” endlessly, ending in a hospital stay and a lonely return to his lodgings. A humorous aside notes the clock’s theft by a former patient.
Henry M Stanley reports dwarfs the Wambutt used tiny poison arrows against elephants and men in African forests while sharing a warning of small yet dangerous foes. The piece also presents a lengthy glossary showing hobo slang terms and a vivid street encounter on 42nd Street with a tramp and a curious city voice.
Sailors claim the frigate bird rides the daybreak trade winds from Africa to the American shore and roosts the same night. It is noted as the swiftest winged creature and can reach speeds of up to 200 miles per hour under favorable conditions.
British farmers milk over 4,000,000 cows and produce about 160 million dollars yearly in milk butter and cheese. The Society to Suppress Useless Noises had four preachers as members and, since some could be heard two blocks away, the club disbanded.
The passage describes unique ambassadorial privileges such as turning the back to a sovereign on dismissal, a crablike sideways retreat for female rulers, and the right to be ushered through folding doors. It notes that aging ambassadors may misstep and collide with walls, and explains the exclusive access granted only to ambassadors.
An Inter Ocean report recounts a corner scene where a digressive woman described a startling episode. A man snatches a child and a dainty dress is blown away in a bizarre tale of a hat and a miraculous, soon mended garment.
A fragmentary reminiscence recalls Senator Evarts at a Windsor talk about a goose riddle, Lincoln acquaintances shared tales of Tad Lincoln, and a Missouri Senator James Stephenson lodging at a Washington hotel. Jokes about church services, river boat schemes, and Flora Belle theater plots surface among scattered recollections of era figures and performances.
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