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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1902
Page
4
A reflective poem urging resilience and optimism. It encourages embracing fate with hopeful outlook and confident self belief. The speaker contrasts light and darkness within, asserting personal choice shapes the world seen by others and urging a hopeful path forward.
Jasper Dane, editor of the Dispatch, meets a young, stylish woman who seeks to submit verses. He critiques the sentimental piece and advises a rewrite, while a note reveals she is Leonie Lamson, the editor’s daughter. He reflects on her kindness and the missed opportunity.
A detailed guide urges photographers to overhaul gear and darkroom routines. It covers cleaning cameras, refurbishing bellows, discarding dull negatives, labeling solutions, maintaining trays, and ensuring safe lighting. It highlights Paris Salon acceptance of photographs and stresses investing in a quality lens and versatile focal lengths for better results.
A historical account notes how employers inspect thumbs of applicants and how asylum doctors use thumb behavior to detect insanity. It claims the thumb reveals mental illness, with right-angle or limp thumbs signaling disease and describes a so called thumb center operation to treat paralysis risk.
One hundred and fifty landladies have been summoned in Vienna for taking up boarders without police permission. The action targets rental practices and compliance with local regulations amid ongoing enforcement.
An observer cites sidewalk treasure seekers inspired by lost and found columns and a habit of scanning pavement for wealth. The piece shifts to a New York Times report on a discount tobacco scheme that inflates trade by fostering higher everyday consumption.
The Whittier Home Association of Amesbury funds a sculpted memorial to the poet in front of the Friends' Meetinghouse. The project aims to place a statue costing at least $10,000, honoring Whittier's memory as reformer and poet and preserving his historic home.
A special census bulletin cites farm property value at 20 514 001 638, farm products 4 799 118 752, and farm income 794 177 78, about 183 percent on invested property. It notes railroads show $12.77 trillion investment with gross income 551 000 40 in 1901, about 42 percent on investment, arguing agriculture may be undervalued amid high costs and discouragement among American farmers.
A civil engineer returning from Jimulco Hacienda in Coahuila recounts wild game tales. Antelopes and ja vals pose danger with sentinels alerting the herd while hogs attack lone hunters. A hunter lost part of a heel to a boar, but survived. Mountain lions in Sonora and Michoacan prove deadly to campers and hunters.
English hunter Mr. Lacy explains how footprints reveal species. He details elephant fore and hind prints, rhinoceros toe patterns, and how elephants move to form continuous tracks. Tracks of leopard and hyena differ, as do doglike hunting breeds, with emphasis on pad shapes and toe marks.
A Harvard grad recounts traveling in Germany after graduation. Believing he knew German, he misorders beer and answers with wrong words, prompting German soldiers to react until a hotel keeper explains the table rule. The anecdote ends with his awkward retreat and a comic close.
A brief, quirky note discusses brass under constant tension transforming briefly from ductile to brittle, with a stray quote from the Chicago Evening Post on encouragement and crowd avoidance. The passage ends with a stray question about attending a prayer meeting.
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