Political Paragraphs on League of Nations Isolation and Vision
Senator Lodge warns against breaking the heart of the world by rejecting the league as it stands and urges realism over rhetoric. He praises Washington's honesty and urges careful approach while President Wilson’s Article X clause is examined. Senator Borah defends nonentangling policy and recalls a lineage of American statesmen as guiding the republic's path.
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League
Senator Lodge
Globe
Borah
America
Washington
United States
Plan for Price Reduction Aimed at Reducing High Living Costs
Representative Simeon D. Fess of Ohio proposes a sweeping program to Congress to curb high prices. Goals include boosting dollar purchasing power, embargoing food exports if needed, withdrawing from Europe, dismantling war agencies, cutting waste, trimming the national payroll, selling war materials, promoting work and saving, and regulating transportation if required. Strong measures against profiteering are urged with enforcement authority and potential penalties under 1917 law.
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Congress
Simeon D. Fess
Ohio
Republican Congressional Committee
Europe
Fess
Department of Justice
Hutchinson
House
Committee On Agriculture
Washington Sheep and Land Co plans large Idaho operation
A Tekoa based firm forms Washington Sheep and Land Co to manage 10 000 owned acres and 20 000 range acres near Tekoa on the Idaho line with sales targets of 5 000 sheep and 700 cattle annually at Spokane. Spokane and Yakima business shuffles include Tonkoff’s Van Brandt orchard sale for 41 000. The mastodon spring at Latah project advances under Eastern Washington Historical Society funding. Wheat prospects in Troy Idaho show 38 47 bushels per acre. straw price hits 9 per ton.
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Tekoa Company
The
Washington Sheep & Land Company
Tekoa
Idaho
Wenatchee
Spokane
Mike Tonkoff
Yakima
van Brandt
Yakima Valley
Tonkoff
America
Latah
Eastern Washington Historical Society
Troy
H. F. Kelly
Washtuena District
Coffee Prices Jump As Shortage Drives Up Costs
Reports warn of another rise in coffee prices due to frost damage in Brazil and European demand after the war. Limited supply and holders delaying sales push prices higher as the beverage becomes harder to obtain.
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Brazil
Typewriter Ribbons For Sale At Echo Office
Remington Underwood and L. C. Smith typewriter ribbons available at The Echo office with a July price of 26 cents.
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Remington, Underwood and
L. C. Smith
Echo
Locomotive Crew Expanded to Handle Fruit Movement
An extra seven men join the local round house to manage more locomotives for the fruit movement rise. A washout plant with a four inch hose connects at the round house to wash boiler tubes, avoiding trips to Leavenworth for boiler cleaning.
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Round House
Leavenworth
Wenatchee World
City street crossing at Eighth and Commercial improved
Residents demand swift repair of the long neglected Eighth and Commercial crossing. Complaints focus on the viaduct approach and the need to replank the floor to restore safe passage.
Flora Payne Whitney Works as City Stenographer
Even with an heiress father Harry Payne Whitney Flora Payne Whitney remains a stenographer typing at Red Cross, then after peace she joined the Republican Woman’s National Executive Committee headquarters.
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Harry Payne Whitney
Flora Payne Whitney
Red Cross
Republican Woman’s National Executive Committee
Wenatchee Apples Demand Grows Eastward Trade
Fruit dealers report S H Andrews of Wenatchee Valley Fruit Exchange seeks more boxed apples for the fall, noting rising consumer demand and higher prices. Andrews returned from a nationwide tour including New York as box apples gain popularity.
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S. H. Andrews
Wenatchee Valley Fruit Exchange
Andrews
New York
Wenatchee World
Wenatchee Valley
Reformers offer panaceas amid high living costs
The piece argues that true relief comes from increased production and hard work, dismissing reform proposals as ineffective. It emphasizes labor and output as the genuine remedy to rising living costs.
Increased Yield of Apples From Northwestern States
The three northwestern boxed apple states Washington Oregon and Idaho show a near double increase in their crop from last year. The August crop report lowers earlier expectations and projects a total U S apple harvest of 23 075 000 barrels, with 12 850 000 barrels from eastern states and 80 675 000 boxes from western boxed shipments. Oregon's Hood River at 95 percent normal signals strong fruit health. Willamette valley output rises and Rogue River district expands.
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Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Bureau of Crop Estimates
United States
Hood River
Willamette Valley
Rogue River District
Apple crop sale at Peshastin county poor farm
The Peshastin county poor farm reports an apple harvest totaling 10 000 boxes sold to Bohlke Warehouse Co at 2.00 to 2.85 dollars per box.
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Peshastin
Bohlke Warehouse Co
Wenatchee Plans $50,000 Water System Bond Issue
The Wenatchee city council will issue bonds totaling 50000 dollars to fund repairs and additions to the water system and to secure a larger water supply.
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Wenatchee
Democrats blame Wilson for wrecking party in letter
A Massachusetts Democratic Club leader and several state lawmakers accuse President Wilson of damaging the party in a letter to the Democratic National Committee. They list fourteen points criticizing his policies on appointing officials, entering the war, the League of Nations, economic controls, and civil rights.
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Wilson
Democratic Party
Democratic National Committee
Francis J. Finneran
Democratic Club
Massachussets
New York Times
Baker
Burleson
Garfield
Europe
America
Mount Vernon
Russia
Congress
Panama
Bacon by Mail Arrives for Leavenworth Residents
Leavenworth residents may order food via mail with Postmaster Hamilton handling the process. Goods include bacon and staples such as corned beef beans cornmeal and more stored in San Francisco. Buyers prepaid parcel post charges and cases may be filled daily to ship to purchasers with delivery at 46 cents per pound.
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Leavenworth
Hamilton
San Francisco
Americans Can Get Their Beer in B C
Thirsty travelers from the United States crossing into British Columbia discover regular saloons in Vancouver with 2.75 percent beer priced at five cents a glass and no war tax. Stronger liquor remains controlled by government dispensaries in larger cities under BC prohibition rules.
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Vancouver
B. C
United States
Doctor and wife depart for Everett home
Dr. Snyder and his wife leave the last of the week for Everett to establish their future home. They were active in social affairs and will be greatly missed by a large circle of friends.
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Butler Sampson
Seattle
Leavenworth
Lowden G O P Boom Heard Nationally
Illinois Governor Lowden emerges as a strong 1920 Republican contender. A rising political ascent from Iowa roots to millionaire status fuels talk of a national boom. Recent meeting with New York GOP leader Job El Hedges signals party head support for Lowden.
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Illinois
Lowden
Plowboy
Llinois
Job el
Hedges
New York
West
Iowa
Alden Warman Leaves Leavenworth for Twisp School Post
Mr. J. H. Alden Warman, a well known figure in Leavenworth and Peshastin, departed last Saturday for Twisp Wash where he has been employed as superintendent of the Twisp schools.
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J. H. Alden Warman
Leavenworth
Peshastin
Twisp Wash
Twisp
Probate Notice for Richard P. Gosslee Estate
The administrator Richard P. Gosslee has qualified and all persons with claims against the deceased or estate must present them with vouchers to the administrator or attorney L. J. Nelson in Leavenworth Washington. Claims must be filed with the court within six months from August 22 1919 or be barred.
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L. J. Nelson
Leavenworth
Chelan County
Washington
A. D
Richard P. Gosslee
P. O
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Wheeler’s Drug Store
Rexall Store
State News
G. W. Dingman
Glendale
Inland Empire
Panhandle
Paeso
Paris
Wenatche
Pleasant Hill
W. F. Patterson
Blewett
Lowden G. O. P
Thomas I. Gosslee
State of Washington
County of
Chelan
Ae Vo
Bellingham Chemical Co
Sellingham, Wash
A No. 1 Coast Lumber
Franklin Lumber Co
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