The Army Dentistie and Virginia Marsh
In a village Virginia longs for a city life and a dental career after receiving an inspiring offer. A visiting doctor becomes enamored as he shares war hospital experiences, but Virginia refuses marriage to stay with her mother, insisting there is no dentist in town. The tale follows love, duty, and career versus family ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Ernest Harlow
Mother
Great Ocean
Harlow
McClure Newspaper
Mint Oil Boom in Michigan and Indiana Regions
The bulk of the world's peppermint oil comes from muck lands in southwestern Michigan and northern Indiana. Two varieties exist American and English Mitchem. the English variety dominates due to hardiness and higher yields. An ideal mint farm uses high land and muck soil with proper fertilizer, allowing long-range production. The plant after distillation provides livestock feed, making two profits per acre. An acre yields 20–60 pounds of oil, with 6–20 pounds from a second cut. Many farmers operate small stills on standard farms, producing through cooperative mills. peppermint is now a large industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Indiana
Still Use St Bernard Dogs Despite Modern Passes
Despite tunnels linking Switzerland and Italy reducing the role of passes like St Bernard, the dogs remain useful with a human handler. Modern St Bernards differ from the medieval breed, arising from crosses after the 16th century and becoming stronger while retaining traits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Switzerland
Italy
St. Bernard
Wales
Martigny
Simplon
Clockwork swap at Belle Isle field meet stirs photographers
An official near a large manpower clock on Belle Isle used a clever ruse to keep photographers away. He offered to let them borrow the stepladder for five minutes only if they would climb up and move the clock hands as he directed from ground level.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Sawyer
Belle Isle
Detroit Free Press
Stamps and collections highlight early 20th century markets
The Sultan of Egypt sent $400 to a Philadelphia dealer for 11 rare Egyptian stamps, claiming the largest collection. Belgium’s 10 cent red stamp issued July 19, 1919, sold out in five days with 25,000 copies and a five-stamp-per-person limit. New Fiume stamps read Poste Fiume Instead of Fiume.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Peking
Egypt
Philadelphia
Belgium
Fiume
Poste
Burglary Tale Turns to Comical Demand for Butter and Eggs
In a Richmond Times-Dispatch frame, a gentleman burglar flashes a lamp and demands valuables from a frightened family head. The thief angrily asks where butter and eggs are kept after the victim lists jewels and money, prompting a desperate female counterattack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Electric treatment of wheat seed boosts yield in Kent trial
A trial at Bodsham Green Elmstead Kent sowed red standard wheat on two plots November 14 and 18. One plot seeds were electrically treated the other not. Treated wheat grew more vigorously with an estimated yield at least 20 percent higher and no rust observed versus rust on the untreated plot. Experts foresee electricity becoming a key factor in crop cultivation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bodsham Green
Elmstead
Kent
W. F. Pledge
Victoria Flour Mills
Ashford
London Times
R. L. Robb
Southeastern Agricultural College
Wye
Doughboy Return Plan Aims to Reintegrate Soldiers
Col Arthur Woods outlines a War Department program to place returning veterans in work, viewing it as a psychological campaign to understand each service member. He emphasizes easing the civilian transition and bridging the 1917 18 gap as America leans on its youth. The piece closes with a nod to the Woolworth building funded by small coins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vuhey
Col
Arthur Woods
Secretary of War
War Department
America
France
City Schools Close for Holiday Vacation December 24
The Leavenworth system will close for Christmas from December 24 to January 5. The high school plans a Christmas party and tree with gifts, and grades prepare ceremonies. October and November enrollments are 418 and 412 with high attendance and tardiness figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leavenworth
Annual Meeting of Leavenworth State Bank Stockholders
The regular annual meeting of the stockholders of the Leavenworth State Bank will be held at its offices in Leavenworth Washington on January 18 1920 at 1 30 p m for the transaction of such business as may regularly come before it. ROBT B FIELD Cashier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ned Gosslee
Dorothy Barsch
Jacob Weber
Edwin Hoxsey
Miss Buck
Miss Anderson
Altho
Flemming
The
Leavenworth State Bank
Leavenworth
Wash
Robt. B. Field
Notice of nonresponsibility for wife debts Jamison
On and after November 80th 1919 I will not be responsible for any debts contracted by my wife Mrs Theone Jamison Signed Frank K Jamison The date appears misprinted but the public notice stands as a declaration of nonliability by the husband for his wife debts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theone Jamison
Pioneer Cashmere Woman Passes Away Sunday Night
Mrs. James Campbell Paton Sr. died at her daughter’s Cashmere home Sunday at 8 pm. Funeral at Kuelle's Parlors Tuesday at 1 30 pm. Born Port Byron New York March 1 1846 she lived in Minnesota North Dakota before settling in Cashmere. Survived by four sons three daughters twenty grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
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James Campbell Paton
Barnard Eliot
Cashmere
Kuelle
Patton
Port Byron
New York
Minnesota
James C. Paton
North Dakota
Old Mission
William Paton
Grant Paton
Fred
A. Paton
James
Tobacco Habit Dangerous Declares Doctor Connor
An advertising feature from Doctor Connor of Johns Hopkins warns that nicotine poisons thousands and urges quitting. It promotes Nicotol tablets as a simple cure sold by druggists with a money back guarantee and promises a forthcoming full announcement in the paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doctor Connor
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Connor
Classified Ads for Leavenworth items and services
WANTED to rent a piano call Leavenworth Hospital. WANTED Woman for house work call 661. HALF ACRE GARDEN TRACTS FOR SALE ten tracts in Leavenworth Gardens Oliver E Swartz. WOOD FOR SALE dry body wood 11 per cord delivered Foster Bros Leavenworth. Trespass signs printed on cloth for warning hunters and others off land for sale at Echo office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leavenworth Gardens
Oliver E. Swartz
Foster Bros. Leavenworth
Echo Office
Discover New Diamond Field in Gold Coast Territory
British Geological Survey officers discover a new diamond field in shallow quartz gravel about 65 miles northwest of Accra. The find yields roughly 600 gems to date, signaling a major mineral discovery in the Gold Coast colony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Geological Survey
Gold Coast
Accra
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ARMY
Emma P. Williams
United States
ST. Bernards
Alps
Philatelic Notes
England
Heart OF the Doughboy
Woolworth
Clifton Hylton
Esther Reeves
Everett
May Wheeler
Frances DeBlois
Mildred Lichti
Susan Miles
Frank K. Jamison
Lavalliere
Ivory
Edison Phonograph
Frank E. Carlquist
Watchmaker & Jeweler
Leavenworth, Wa
Leavenworth Hospital
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