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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1917
Page
4
A well appointed dining room makes it a happy meeting place for family and guests. Our special showing of dining room furniture in sets and pieces will appeal to women who take pride in a beautiful home and value unusual offerings.
Calder Herring, manager at Naxle Sales Co, touts shoe repair service. The shop installs new soles and heels on old shoes with the same care as new work and promises attentive service to make shoes serviceable and presentable.
Denver organization opens Thrift House to train wives of soldiers in Morse telegraphy wireless typewriting stenography and general office work. An employment bureau will place graduates as soon as competent. In another note, Washington sheepmen back 65 miles of railroad in the Methow valley between Pateros and Winthrop.
Oxford Pennsylvania reports Bayard T. Fisher fifty an undertaker at Avondale was killed when a rotted telephone pole fell during a storm pinning him to the ground. He had just ordered a handsome hearse and survived long enough to say he would take the first ride. Fisher was nominated for burgess and was en route to arrange a automobile trip when the pole toppled onto his lawn near the Newark and Pomeroy railroad. E. E. Wilson freed him but he suffered a broken back and left leg.
Professor Andreade of the University of Athens argues that if the Turks exit Europe, Greek predominance will define the new borders from Adrianople to the Bosphorus. He says Constantinople would be a Greek city with about 350,000 Greeks, shaping nationality based redraws. He warns previous Balkan settlements ignored race and were forced by military power, fueling endless wars. He outlines two entente barriers to German expansion: a Greek zone across Thrace and a Serb Roumanian link dam between Hungary and Bulgaria, enabling friendly zones without force.
War department wraps strict waste controls in cantonments and embarkation camps with trained cooks and sanitary transfer stations to reclaim materials. Salvage includes glass bottles tin paper bones hides and manure turning waste into fertilizer grease and pork via swine feeding experiments. Estimated first year net save 1 707 840 dollars plus profits from garbage and other byproducts. Notice of Sheriff sale of real property in Chelan County Washington details foreclosure action and sale date December 29 1917.
The New York American quotes voices from Philadelphia Boston and Charlotte debating which city holds the greatest Revolutionary honor. Philadelphia cites the Continental Congress while Boston points to its Stamp Act, but Charlotte asserts its own early declaration of separation from King George precedes the Declaration of Independence by more than a year.
Department of the Interior notice announces August Nelson of Leavenworth Wash has a Homestead entry in three tracts totaling 2.17 acres in T 296 N R 16 E W M, to prove up his claim before R S Ludington at Wenatchee on December 27 1917. Witnesses include Tony Violette Joe Violette John L Murphy S Swenson.
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