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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1914
Page
5
An old public notice touts Sloan's Liniment as an antiseptic remedy for insect bites and infections from cuts, bruises, and sores. It claims quick neutralization of infection and offers a money back guarantee, pricing it at 25 cents at druggists.
The Puyallup and Sumner Fruit Growers Association insured their manager W H Paulhamus for 25000 and also took out accident policies totaling 25000 payable to the association. If the manager dies or is injured, at least 25000 would be deposited with the association's treasurer. The association's capital is only 2300, suggesting shrewd financing.
A prominent motorist shares roadside hacks for emergency tire repairs. Carry an extra tube to patch a blowout or wrap burlap around a partially inflated tube to reach home. Without a tube, pack the tire with rags or hay to substitute for air and limp to a repair shop.
Mrs. H A Franklin hosted friends at Entiat to celebrate her daughter Evelyn Dorothy's first birthday with baby portraits on display and a dainty cafeteria luncheon. Attendees included J F Allen W J Darby N M Coleman W Gaines T McKeever A C Mabie H A Gillon H A Franklin Julia and Agnes Gaines Hilda Franklin Nadine Gillon Ivy Dunburne and Evelyn Dorothy who was crowned the most wonderful baby in the Entiat valley.
Washington swine breeders lost 5,700 hogs to disease and valued at 72,000 dollars last year, a death rate of 20 per 1,000 head. In 1913 the rate was 22 per 1,000 with 5,700 head lost. Washington had 284,000 hogs worth 3,607,000 dollars on January 1, 1914. Nationwide losses totaled 7,004,800 hogs valued at 75,000,000 dollars with a death rate of 119 per 1,000.
A London Tit-Bits figure estimates 36,000,000 babies born yearly, about seventy per minute. If lined in cradles, the procession would circle the globe, even at twenty a minute only a sixth of the year’s infants would pass any fixed point, leaving a rear guard of six-year-olds at the end.
The term on the line referred to an eight foot high horizontal ledge in Somerset House and Trafalgar Square exhibitions. Top of a frame aligned with the ledge marked the line, with large works placed above and portraits resting on the ledge below. This preserved a level display height for viewers.
In Ragusa region the two giant plane trees near Cannosa, famed as part of the Adriatic coast, stand on a garden plateau of Count Gozze. The larger tree overwhelms observers, its trunk requiring twenty five paces to circle and branches stretching thirty to forty paces outward before bending upward.
Otis B Fuller of Wenatchee died Saturday morning at his home after a yearlong cancer fight. He arrived in Wenatchee before the railroad and built vast orchard and commercial holdings. He was the senior member of Wenatchee Realty and Investment Company, which benefited from orchard land value rises after the high line canal was finished. In law it is good policy never to plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.
Real estate notice touts land in the Upper Wenatchee Valley as a strong investment with prices rising. It highlights examples near Peshastin and lists parcels of 28 acres 40 acres and 42 acres with cultivation, timber, and orchard components and asking prices of 1500 and 2000 dollars.
Advertisement offering multiple parcels for sale or trade near Leavenworth Washington. 10 acre tract near Merritt described as good land with irrigation. 35 acre tract near town. Prices listed as very cheap with terms available. Inquiries directed to Echo Leavenworth Wash.
The Washington State Sheriffs Association passes resolutions endorsing ending the floater system for hoboes, instituting uniform statewide fingerprinting, repealing two term limits for county officials, extending sheriffs' terms to four years, and nonpartisan county elections.
Summer coughs and colds threaten health with low vitality and possible lung trouble. The ad claims Dr. Kings New Discovery relieves coughs or colds promptly, prevents complications, and soothes symptoms. It offers 50 cent and 1 dollar bottles with a money back guarantee.
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