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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1904
Page
1
A shopper note invites customers to look in a window display and hear what store staff know about the item. The playful prompt suggests in person details rather than printed text.
The Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter opened the Subway Tavern at Mulberry and Bleeker in a ceremony with a barroom speech and doxology. The saloon promotes temperance by reformist design, separating water and alcoholic options and charging for each drink. Potter notes the need for working people’s recreation and cleaner homes as essential to liberty. A brief drug ad and a separate violent death report complete the piece.
Notice from School District No 3 invites sealed bids for twenty five cords of 20 inch wood split fine for use. Wood to be cut by September 1 delivered by October 15 with preference to early cut. Bids open Saturday August 20 1904 by order of Board of Directors A A Tholin Supervisor.
The brother of Judge Alton B. Parker, Eugene B. Parker, lives in Astoria Oregon as a grocery clerk for A. V. Allen. A Seattle transplant and former Ross Higgins & Co. employee, he kept his relation secret to avoid publicity. He is married with two children and fears public curiosity may affect his employer's business. He is 45 and a Democrat with little local political involvement.
The National Agriculture report shows Washington with the highest average condition for crops on July 1 including winter wheat at 98 percent and spring wheat 91 percent. Washington also tops the nation in wool fleece weight at 8.1 pounds, with Oregon and Wyoming next at 7.5. The U S average wool fleece weight stands at 6.4 pounds.
A negro clergyman, guest of a college president, recounted his early life. When asked how he became Christian, he said Jezebel converted him, noting in his country people avoid touching the palms as they are bitter, a detail he linked to the Bible story.
Mrs. C. H. Jennings reports her sickly twins grew strong after using Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. Despite several doctors, no results were seen. The tonic cost 85 cents and was available in tea or tablet form at City Drug Store.
An editorial fragment surveys George Turner's shifting political affiliations from republican to silver Republican to populist and Democrat, arguing his record and rhetoric would hinder any Novembe r election bid. The piece cites Turner as opportunistic, untrustworthy, and out of touch with the people.
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