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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1908
Page
12
Fragmentary text mentions individuals and places with references to trial, death, and locations such as Eugene. Details are unclear, with missing names dates and events, making precise reporting impossible from the readable fragments. The surviving phrases suggest a court setting, a death, and local identifiers, but no coherent narrative or outcome is discernible.
The city council held its regular monthly meeting last night approving enforcement of pure food laws, a request for pure milk and a public abattoir, and appointing judges for the upcoming election. The council also ordered street lights, replaced hitching posts, granted a sign permit, and advanced road and utility projects including a water bonds measure. Debates and public speeches followed, with Eugene V. Debs addressing the crowd on socialism and labor, outlining worker ownership of tools and promotion of the socialist platform.
Eugene Debs, socialist candidate for president, spoke briefly to several hundred at the Eugene depot this forenoon. The Red Special arrived at 10:25 as Harry McKee, national lecturer, addressed the crowd before Debs appeared. The train carried a platform, banners, and red insignia with Debs and party members including Harry C. Parker Stephen Reynolds and A H Floaten.
A discussion of wage stagnation and surplus value under capitalism. It argues that production outstrips workers’ purchasing power, forcing foreign markets and causing industrial crises. The piece notes Republican blame for the 1893 panic and political shifts through 1908, highlighting cyclical economic blame games.
Albany reports that thousands of herring on Yaquina Bay beaches died from sudden fresh water influx during upstream migration. W M Toner, oyster beds owner, notes fish entered Yaquina Bay and river, then returned to sea as water freshened, explaining why only herring washed ashore.
The tenth annual Lane County Veterans Association reunion will be held in Eugene September 23 to 25. Veterans of all wars are invited to attend with a program of events at W. O. W. hall where members report and receive badges. President H Williams and secretary C H Baker oversee.
The forty seventh annual Oregon state fair opened in Salem with five days of exhibits in livestock dairy horticultural agricultural floral poultry women's work industrial work and machinery. Gate receipts topped $3000 on opening day despite a smaller crowd due to a political meeting. In speed racing Yuys Josephine won the 2:12 pace in three heats while Monocrat captured the 2:25 trot. Running Bill Short won a 4 1/2 furlong race with The Counselor second and Sallie Goodwin third. College Maid guideless pace failed to beat 2:09 in an exhibition mile.
In Florence on September 9 1908 Simon Kiechler and Margaret Christensen tied the knot at Tsiltcoos Lake with Judge D KE Severy presiding. The groom is a rancher with years in the vicinity and the bride a California import and sister of Niels Christensen. They began housekeeping at the groom’s Tasiltcoos Lake ranch.
Mrs Emma MecCornack and nephew left Tuesday for Eugene to visit friends. Mrs Martha Hartley and granddaughter reside again in Florence. Seven Chinks arrived to work in Rose Hill Cannery with more expected today. Tom and George Saubert of Spokane started a trip to Smith River. Miss Flossie Chapman visited Mapleton with Misses Gertrude Hamble and Erma Neely. Erickeon forestry service land examiner left for a trip to the Umpqua. Jease Pounds and Earl Baldwin of Eugene spent Wednesday on the Sillesian and returned home. T F Laffey of Olympia visited with his children here. Miss Clara Webb of Troutdale is...
Florence notes outline visitors and moves including Paranno from Portland joining Hardcumber Navigation, Liebard’s Chicago friend considering staying, Yosts relocating to town, Berger and Anderson touring from Eugene, Bean and family vacationing at Mapleton, Morgan traveling to Heceta to meet daughter, Ballard Shelburg party hunting bears, Shilling hired to teach North Fork district school, Knowles launching a rebuilt boat, Robinson preparing a seine for fishing, Oakland schooner delivering cargo from San Francisco and lumbering at Rose Hill, J F Clark scouting a shingle-mill site near Florence.
London reporters describe the closing Eucharist Congress as a vast crowd witnessed a procession led by Cardinal Vannutelli the pope's legate in scarlet robes and hat though he did not carry the host. He moved with a bodyguard through the streets in the afternoon heat.
A sermon was delivered before a vast Catholic convocation in London featuring English peers led by the Duke of Norfolk, with a concourse of cardinals, archbishops and bishops in ceremonial robes. The congress opened with a pontifical mass in the cathedral celebrated by the papal legate. Cardinal Gibbons preached an eloquent sermon to a crowded audience.
N. H. Crown of Pittsfield VI endorses Dr King's New Life Pills for years with increasing satisfaction. The pills claim to ease stomach, liver and bowel kinks without fuss or friction and are guaranteed satisfactory at W. A. Kuykendall's drug store.
William Gregory Zeigler married Miss Edna A Horn at the bride’s father’s residence near Eugene on the river road Wednesday evening September 9 1908 Rev G Knotts of Albany officiated the ceremony in a simple home setting.
Cincinnati dispatch says Judge Taft worked on a reply to Bryan and drafted two speeches for tomorrow. The first addressed delegates from Greenfield Indiana and the second to Methodist Negro preachers across Ohio Indiana Kentucky and Pennsylvania.
Advertises Texas Wonder tonic offering kidney liver and rheumatic relief for $1 per bottle with two months treatment. Sold by O J Hall and by mail. Dr E W Hall listed at 7976 Olive Street St Louis with testimonials available.
The advertisement asserts that taking Kodol at the start of stomach distress prevents worse attacks and helps restore digestion quickly. It urges readers to buy a bottle today and notes availability through all druggists.
Mr and Mrs M F P Griggs arrived from their Blue River summer home today after a very pleasant outing.
H. H. Goodman of Lowell is reported to be in Eugene for an event or occasion. the brief note places him in the city context and identifies him by name and hometown.
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F L Kent president of the Oregon State Dairy Association has returned from New York where he attended the National Convention of Dairy Instructors under government sponsorship.
Marean Hurd came home last night after spending the summer in Astoria.
In Windsor Missouri a dynamite car on the depot track exploded, destroying the depot. Frederick Yake, Missouri Pacific agent, was killed along with an unknown laborer and D B E Hall a drayman and an unknown tramp died later. Eighteen people were injured.
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