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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1909
Page
4
A 1908 PSA piece argues fixed costs drop with higher sales and advertising is the key. It urges leaders of low prices to draw new customers and keep them with frequent Saturday specials, while stressing newspapers extend reach beyond local areas and word of mouth is too slow.
Vice Admiral Pascual Cervera who commanded the Spanish fleet at the battle of Santiago Cuba is dead. Family members were present at his bedside in Puerto Real Spain.
Rear-Admiral Eulate commanded the Viscaya at Santiago as events closed. Admiral Cervera, in his final hours, asked that no military honors be paid and showed steady fortitude. He urged relatives not to grieve, remaining conscious until moments before death from heart disease.
Washington April 6. Assistant Secretary Coolidge approves a plan to standardize United States note and coin certificate designs reducing 19 varieties to nine. Each denomination will feature a fixed portrait such as Washington on the $1, Jefferson on the $2, Lincoln on the $5, and Cleveland on the U S note. other listed portraits include Jackson, Grant, Franklin, and Chase on higher values.
The text notes elimination of portraits including Hillegas Monroe Silas Wright Lewis Clark and Mans field along with the eagle buffalo and Indian head on currency. It states these designs will be discarded to curb counterfeiting and a new system is expected to discourage fake notes.
President Roosevelt visits Naples with a brief stay as the Hamburg arrives at noon. He is greeted by city officials and local women bearing roses while flowers and a German Emperor remembrance christen the ship. The Admiral sails at 10 p.m. for Mombassa carrying the ex-president and party.
Wheat Bluestem $1.18 and other wheats $1.10 to $1.20 per bushel. Oats $39. Barley $30 31. Hay Eastern Washington Timothy $20 21 per ton. Butter Washington creamery 5 to 6 cents per pound. Eggs Selected local 2 cents each. Hops 1908 several grades from 6 to 10 cents. Wool Valley 15 16 cents per pound. Mohair 22 23 cents. Western Oregon and Puget Sound hay ranges noted.
The article surveys tariff proposals under the Payne bill including minimum and maximum rates and a 20 percent spread after a one year phase, with senators Sparkman Kinkaid and De Armond proposing or opposing various duties and bank deposit rules. It notes Supreme Court authority on constitutional questions and plans for isthmus traffic studies ahead of a Pacific steamship line.
Washington and Oregon move toward a conference on the Columbia river boundary dispute. Governor Hay and Attorney-General Bell will ask Governor Benson and Attorney-General Crawford to meet in Portland or Salem to seek an amicable compromise to avoid full Supreme Court litigation.
In Portland on April 7 millers pay record prices for Blue stem wheat with bids up to 1.30 per bushel at tidewater and 1.20 at shipping points. Producers hold only a few hundred thousand bushels in Oregon, Idaho, and Washington while demand remains strong and fear grows of imports from east of the Rockies to cover the shortage.
Special Assistant to the U S Attorney General Frank B Kellogg filed his brief and began argument in St Louis today after two years of evidence in the government suit to dissolve Standard Oil Company of New Jersey for alleged Sherman act violations.
Fire started in a barn due to boys smoking cigarettes. It swept the southern Fort Worth area, destroying property valued at about 2,500,000 dollars, killing one person and leaving thousands homeless on Saturday.
The first train to pass through St Paul Pass tunnel at Taft on the Chicago Milwaukee and Puget Sound railroad ran at noon Sunday. Work trains are now running from the coast to near Missoula.
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