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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1915
Page
3
London reports bets on war’s end vary with May 1915 to March 1916 odds. An expert argues victory hinges on killing Germans, who allegedly have food reserves, and cites casualty estimates around 1.25 million to date plus heavy implied future losses.
American novelist Henry Sydnor Harrison has begun work as an automobile ambulance driver for the American hospital in Paris. He studied French and motorcar driving intensively in two months in London and Paris, earning a driver’s diploma before his posting. Harrison, born 1880 in Sewanee Tennessee, is author of Queed V V s Eyes Angela's Business and many short stories.
Donald Murphy nineteen son of Pasadena millionaire A M Murphy enlisted for three years in the US Navy at Mare Island San Francisco after his parents consented He drove to Spring Street recruiting office in his car passed the medical exam and boarded a train to Mare Island Murphy is a Pasadena High School graduate of last year
Secretary of War Garrison considers helping a ten year old Irish boy in Dublin who wants to become a cowboy. He invites ranchmen to offer to train him, with the letter forwarded to the boy from the War Department. The boy’s name and address are not released.
Desperate petitioners across the country urge the Washington Revenue Bureau to relax the strict anti drug regulations. Sufferers report cut off supplies and writhe in hysterical appeals while the commissioner can only enforce the law.
Philadelphia report notes Bryn Mawr College recording dean Dr Isabel Maddison says over half of graduates who left fifteen years ago are now married. She calls the figure fine and contrasts it with the nine of ten noncollege women married before thirty.
Washington reports a $2,000,000 drop in federal liquor tax income as prohibition and local option spreads grow. Nine states go dry next year, prompting discussion of a new tax system to replace dwindling liquor revenues and balance federal finances without overburdening citizens.
Governor John M. Slaton plans to pardon hundreds of aging inmates as he nears his term end. After visiting Milledgeville state farm he reviewed petitions from prisoners who have served 25 years or more, noting exhausted, forgotten lives and urging careful consideration for those who have atoned for their crimes.
Berkeley researchers report a Miocene three toed horse fossil of the merychippus type unearthed in the southern Sierra Nevada is the long sought link in horse evolution. J P Deawalda of the University of California discovered the specimen. Henry Fairfield Osborn notes prior finds in the Dakotas and Nebraska, marking California’s first.
Baltimore seven foot soldier Rut ledge F. Gardner recalls enlisting in King Edward’s horse, serving in France from Calais to Neuve Chapelle, creeping to locate snipers, suffering a trench fall, returning to England discharged, and noting poor U.S. troops reception among English regiments.
Madison area note reports the Milwaukee group Society of Thirty Niners asking to incorporate. Its aims include promoting stein use, the smoking of pipe, and friendly nicknames to foster good feeling while calming wartime tensions. The state sanction question is under consideration.
In London a 47 pound German shell fragment from December raids at West Hartlepool led to a lawsuit between a bricklayer and a real estate agent. They valued the piece at 2.2 pounds per pound, arguing over who saw it first and whose client’s house it hit. the agent won the fragment.
The offer lists prices for letterheads envelopes statements and visiting cards with discounts for larger orders and a free additional third on orders. It promises adjustable quantities and urges visits before June first to inspect printing samples and notes Echo's unique style not found nearby.
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