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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1917
Page
4
The U S Department of Agriculture outlines home fruit and vegetable drying methods using sun heat air blast or combination. It covers preparation cutting sizes temperatures 110 to 150 F gradual heating blanching beets carrots peas beans corn and apples pears quinces peaches and others with tray or improvised rack driers and storage guidance.
Albany reports that New York state could mobilize about 570000 men for military service in wartime based on census data and enlistment conditions. Acting Health Commissioner Williams estimates another 570000 men could be ready for home defense, evaluating physical fitness from the same pool.
Stewart Springer an 18 year old New Yorker sailed August 6 1914 and survived a string of war time sinkings. He served as cook aboard several vessels from Cardiff to the North Sea including the Pearlmoor Aidenwing Frankstream and others. He witnessed a tanker Gulflight sunk off Scilly Isles and was wounded by two bullets in the knee during the Dardanelles evacuation.
W J Norris, walnut dealer from northeast Missouri, completes a remarkable harvest near Shelbyville. On G W Hope’s 160 acre tract the timber averages 40 years old with one tree at 152 rings. About 50,000 feet will be cut with logs used for veneering and airplane lumber. logs produce 42 ft to first limb and 16 ft logs 30 inches diameter.
Gordon Thorne and his bride Miss Virginia Milner head to California for their honeymoon. Townsend Netcher, best man, signed a $2,000 check as proof of a bet he had made last autumn that Thorne would win Milner. Netcher praised never losing a bet with such pleasure as he signed the check.
In Dry hill woods Monterey C Wellman and crew heard a rattlesnake then located it under a horse's foot. The hoof pinned the snake so it could rattle but not strike. The men killed the snake.
Sheriff Bert McManus will sell the real property described as the east half of the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 9 Township 22 North Range 2 east of the Willamette Meridian containing 6 acres with water rights from Wenatchee Canal Company irrigation system. Sale set for September 1 1917 at 10 a m at the courthouse front door in Wenatchee. Proceeds go to F B Hull to satisfy a mortgage judgment plus interest costs and attorney fees.
N M Sorensen offers practice in suites at 2 Halbert Block Wenatchee Washington with phone contact 8872.
A Saturday Evening Post anecdote uses a hunting dog tale to illustrate a man described as lacking steady concentration and difficult self-knowledge. The captain of industry compares the man to a dog that constantly shifts targets from deer to fox to cotton-tail, ending far from home.
A New York Sun correspondent questions the authenticity of George Washington’s legs in Stuart full length portraits. The letter from Stuart thanks the owner for providing a symmetrical foundation for the bust and a smaller portrait as thanks.
Auburn Maine John F Stanley seventy six superintendent of the Maine fish hatchery grounds and his wife seventy one were nearly killed when a pet buck charged Stanley breaking several ribs and injuring him Her wife awakened in a nightgown rushed to aid him and was charged too a collie drove the buck away She crawled to a telephone fainted Stanley was found half submerged in a brook The buck was killed by order of state authorities.
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