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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1900
Page
3
The readable parts do not specify names, places, dates, or events. No actionable or verifiable facts emerge to form a substantive headline or summary.
A plea urges women to rely on Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female ailments, citing decades of tested cures and widespread testimonials. Letters from women across the United States claim relief from leucorrhea womb trouble and related symptoms after using the product, with many vowing lifelong use.
R G Dun reports limited expansion in the East with modest West and South gains. Tin plate wage agreement with Amalgamated Association raises wages for 35,000 idle workers. Grain prices steady despite favorable crop reports and foreign supply concerns. Iron and steel demand rises. October 1 cited for potential general resumption. Rail freight rates largely unchanged. Boston boot and shoe shipments dip slightly. Wool sales fall in major markets though woolen trade shows activity. Wool volumes and failures rise modestly year over year.
Readable lists show onions lettuce potatoes beets squash carrots parsley cauliflower cucumbers cabbage tomatoes butter cheese poultry hay corn flour millstuff feeds meats and produce. Prices cover diverse goods from onions at low per pound to timothy hay per ton and live poultry per dozen, reflecting Seattle market activity in Pacific Coast trade.
An account from the New York Tribune traces the transformation of a thrifty waste buyer in the ghetto into a shoemaker wholesaler. He buys scraps and seconds, crafts footwear at home, markets from a street corner, then expands to a push cart, a storefront on Hester Street, and finally rents a Bayard Street basement as his shoe trade grows across push-cart dealers and East Side jobbers. The piece highlights community-driven enterprise, labor, and urban commerce in early New York.
Two bright mechanics uncover a vast tin can Klondike along Seventy-ninth Street and Vincennes Avenue in Chicago. Old cans from tomatoes to French truffles are piled into hills while a nearby assay office and a small factory process the metal into ingots and sheets for markets. Nearby items include a tale of disease in fish and a quip about bishops at the Athenaeum. The queen bee lifespan is described, contrasting with drones and workers.
A garbled column mixes patent medicines and curious health tips with satirical notes on Buffalo population growth, slang labels in Chicago, teething syrups for children, and a Vermont lakeside camping scene. A Vermont anecdote ends with a lewd joke about deviled ham and a loafer’s remark.
A letter from a sister is read under fire as Labuschagne's private endures a deadly zone. A wounded batsman at Lady Smith completes his innings before death. Trooper Chas Hands keeps a cigarette alight amid a fractured thigh and hospital transfer. A girl’s coming of age and a teen adopted as a kitchen helper reflect social norms.
A long excerpt argues alcohol’s harms are underestimated by timid modern views. It cites the New York Medical Journal, Journal of Inebriety, and a Persian pharaoh anecdote, urging cautious talk on alcohol’s damage across families and communities. It also notes hay storage, linseed meal benefits for cattle, and milk as a primary food. Philadelphia’s caterpillar control improved with trunk wrapping. A proverb on quarrels and merit closes.
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