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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1904
Page
1
Chelan County reports a strong win for John D. Atkinson in primary precincts. The county convention meets tomorrow in Wenatchee to instruct its delegation to back Atkinson at the state convention in Tacoma on May 11.
A. G. White of Ravia unveils a wheel mounted furnace and chemical vat device that vents fumes through cotton to kill boll weevils while leaving plants unharmed. Tests claim one machine can treat twenty acres per day and production will begin this season. Farmers near Waverly pursue sugar beet crops amid favorable land.
A curious article describes astonishing feats of small life. Flea leaps and fly sprint distances are scaled to human size. Cheese-mite leaps from a six inch vessel. Squash growth experiments show lifting sixty to five thousand pounds. Turnip seed growth ratios reach millions in short periods.
A tribute defends printing as a noble art, contrasting famed figures like the Earl of Stanhope William Caxton and Benjamin Franklin with the sneer that they were "only a printer." The piece lists G P Morris Horace Greeley Dickens and others, noting printers' widespread influence.
A compilation of snippets mentions a town’s loyalty question and a voter count, major flood damage across the central states, broader free mail delivery, new postal routes, a Kentucky wedding delayed for gloves, Seattle mayoral vows, a Reading cannon project, Okanogan cattle losses, delayed hay shipments, U S trade with Pacific regions, Mormon conference remarks on posterity, Custer Sioux battle memories revived with a retiree, D E Thompson’s railroad to fortune, negroes exploring a national party, a July 6 national convention, a seedless apple innovation by John F Spencer, and grafting plans for seedless fruit trees.
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