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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1916
Page
3
Forty guns for the American navy are ready and will be placed on twenty Atlantic fleet battleships. The Pennsylvania and Nevada are already equipped, with officers calling the three inch bore fifty caliber gun the most effective anti aircraft weapon, capable of reaching five miles straight up.
Joseph Jordan of Willoughby vice president and GM of the Cleveland Painesville and Eastern railroad vows to secure a square deal. He notes Lake county couples face a 45 minute wait after midnight for a city car at the East Cleveland Y before returning to Cleveland and will press Cleveland Railroad to arrange a last interurban car connection.
Mrs. Amy D. Winship, 85, plans to enroll at the University of California Berkeley after studying at Wisconsin this year. Born in 1847 in an Illinois log schoolhouse, she began higher education at Ohio State University and since has focused on botany physics and international law.
Samuel H. Silbert, once a Newark newsboy at fifteen, returns as Judge of Cleveland municipal court to Newark for a Progress Club dinner honoring former and current newsboys. The 18 year journey from Newark to Denver and back is recalled in a tale of humble beginnings and public service.
Greensburg, Pa men plan a new golf club after dissatisfaction at Greensburg Country Club where many women members enjoy the game. A male expert cites chatter as hindering play while a woman golfer retorts that old factions form new clubs if needed to protect high scores.
State Senator A C Clark of Chicago with a summer residence at Eagle Springs Lake offers a total reward of 100 dollars after skunk sacks were placed under his Eagle Wis home floor. The Eagle Quill notes his complaint that Mrs Clark cannot live in the house while the mystery remains unsolved.
In Newton New Jersey during a severe thunderstorm, Mrs Mamie Louise McCracken 50 of Woodside avenue collapsed from fright and died shortly after. Daughter of the late John Dalrymple of Washington New Jersey she had lived in the township since her marriage thirty one years ago.
In Federalsburg Maryland Henry P Wright of Aberdeen began sending silver dollars to his sister Mrs Mary Fleetwood as Christmas presents. Over ten years every dollar arrived on time with the sister's address on one side and a two cent stamp on the other, never lost or stolen. In Pennsburg Pennsylvania a Sumneytown farmer trains heifers to scent and chase rabbits, a cheaper alternative to dogs.
A historical note describes the curious practice of lifting or heaving during Easter, including an incident where a clergyman was briefly carried in a procession by two women in a way that startled him, and mentions the habit of lifting three times on Easter Monday and Shrove Tuesday.
In McAdoo Pennsylvania men avoided shaving and women stopped cleaning as Lehigh Traction feed wires grounded, sending current through water mains into homes and starting fires. Barbers wore rubber mats overshoes. women feared vacuum cleaners could carry trolley charges after the incident.
A newspaper advertisement urges parents to treat children with pale dull or irritable symptoms as worms and promotes Kickapoo Worm Killer lozenges. The ad claims the remedy expels worms immediately and costs 25 cents at druggists.
Vance Crswell McCormick of Harrisburg becomes the personal choice of President Wilson to head his re election campaign. A Yale alumnus and former Harrisburg reform mayor at 29 he is described as a hard fighter with broad interests in agriculture and civic reform. He helped shape the 1912 Democratic rise and later served as Yale trustee and Philadelphia Federal Reserve director.
Edward N Hurley, a native of Galesburg Illinois, chosen by the Federal Trade Commission to succeed Joseph E Davies as chairman under the commission’s annual rotation. Hurley rose from machinist apprentice to locomotive fireman and engineer in Chicago before founding a tool business and expanding into international factories. He later retired to Wheaton Illinois to farm prize stock and built further fortunes in Chicago with roles in the Illinois Manufacturing Association and various railroad and financial DIRECTORATES.
A compact caution on writing ads stressing truthfulness. It warns against over promising and suggests making ads attractive yet reasonable so buyers trust the message and avoid backlash from false claims.
Promotional note urging readers to study newspaper moving picture and magazine writing from the U S Press Association in Washington D C. The ad promises high returns and an economical course to use one’s brain and complete copy independently.
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