Brickyard Change Hands to Prevent Timber Waste
The Peake & Son brickyard is sold to C. E. Gatherless & Co. of Seattle and will operate as Leavenworth Brick Co. to start brick production in spring, including pressed brick, with plans for affordable prices. Gatherless will relocate here, live locally, and invest in nearby fruit lands.
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Peake & Son
C. E. Gatherless & Co
Seattle
Leavenworth Brick Co
Gatherless
Paul Weigand
Big Rock Corner
Death of John Tholin in Leavenworth
John Tholin died Thursday December 19 1907 at his Leavenworth home at age 62 years nine months and nine days from apoplexy. Born March 10 1845 in Karlsbad Sweden he emigrated to America in 1866 and married Mary Nelson in Rochester Minnesota August 4 1878. He arrived in Leavenworth November 19 1892 and helped build the town then Icicle. Survived by wife Mary and two grown children Anna and Edward. Interment in Leavenworth cemetery with funeral Sunday at 1 PM. The Echo offers sympathy to the bereaved.
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John Tholin
Karlsbad
Sweden
America
Mary Nelson
Rochester
Minn
Leavenworth
Icicle
Anna Tholin
Edward
Alaska
Dry farm turkeys yield big hopes on Payette ranch
A. M. Howard raised 600 turkeys on a dry farm near the Payette River feeding on grasshoppers and sagebrush. He expects over 2000 from the birds. He shipped 500 to Seattle by car from New Plymouth after declining 20 cent a pound offers, with gobblers dressed at 30 pounds and average weight about 20 pounds.
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A. M. Howard
Payette
New Plymouth
Seattle
Howard
Py I
A Chosen One and Adopted Child Quarrel Over Parents
Two young girls clash over real parents with one asserting adoption as right. The other replies her parents chose her, while the other had to take what came. The exchange appears in the Ladies' Home Journal. Mr Durr of the Leavenworth Laundry falls ill, delaying white and starched work delivery.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Tragic china heads and a poet’s odd love tale
A Dresden shepherdess and a porcelain bust scene unfold in verse, then a financial column by Luzzati urges global bank coordination to fix gold crises. Texas brewers offer reform to aid prohibition efforts, including saloon purification and Sunday closing. January recalled with Janus et cetera.
New Year Bells Echo Across Alpine Villages
Alpine villagers travel long distances through deep snow to hear the village pastor deliver a sermon on New Year. At midnight bells ring in the frosty air and echo across hills and valleys, uniting with other church bells for a concert no city could match.
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Alps
Rockefeller as Santa Claus at Pocantico Hills Lyceum
John D. Rockefeller Jr. plays Santa for Pocantico Hills children at the Lyceum, touring after decorations. He admires an electric star, asks about fireplaces, notes a youth he last saw four years ago, and thanks the audience for holiday cheer while pledging goodwill. Also long-standing customs of watching year end, resolutions, and primitive New Year practices are discussed via notes from St. Louis Globe-Democrat and Boston Herald.
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John D. Rockefeller
Santa Claus
Pocantico Hills
Lyceum
Mr. Rockefeller
Star of Bethlehem
Guiding Star
Rockefeller
Pliny
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Scotch Kisses Traditions of a Past Scottish Custom
A popular old custom among young Scots had men roaming streets ringing door bells and kissing the girl who answered. If the resident was elderly or unattractive there was no escape from the kiss, despite the bell ringer’s reluctance.
How Would You Like to Be a King at Christmas
Royal dining notes describe King Edward's Christmas table to feature up to thirty cygnets weighing as much as twenty five pounds each. Bellamy Bros of Jermyn Street supply half a dozen young swans for sale at about 40 shillings a pair. Cygnets are a long standing royal delicacy and Queen Alexandra helps maintain swans on the Thames under special laws. Largest swannery is kept by Lord Ilchester.
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Edward
Bellamy Bros
Jermyn Street
Queen Alexandra
Thames
Ilchester
Restaurant waiters seek kinder crowds during festive season
Customer asks about Christmas meals and the waiter notes rough crowds. Some patrons are rude enough to switch to new eateries just to dodge long waits.
A Christmas Fantasy And The Last Of An Old Beau
A poetic snippet contrasts mistletoe magic with vows to never part. It recalls a couple clinging through time and place and jokes about a last old beau’s hair. Harvey Peake in Bohemia notes a woman travels long distances for love and conflict with marriage.
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Harvey Peake
Bohemia
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Brickyard
Forest Service
Washington
New Haven
Connecticut
Old Chemical Laboratory
Sheffield Scientific School
Yale University
Boston
Turkys
BY Lue F. Vernon
China
Dresden
William Tell
Neue Frei Presse
Signor Luzzati
Bank of England
Austria
Italy
France
Texas
Association of Brewers
Brewers Association
Janus
Caesar
Rust Clothing CO
Bloom Building
Leavenworth, Wash
Momwun Insurance CO
M. F. Peake & Son
John D
Herzegovina
Oman
Dalmatia
Boston Herald
Mabel
Mr. Whetherne
Alice
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