Eastern Washington Pushes Good Roads and Irrigation Plan
State wide movement advocates using automobile license funds for a state bond issue to finance major road and irrigation projects. Proposals include tapping Pend Oreille water at Albany Falls to reclaim about 3,000,000 acres across multiple counties, with land offered to settlers on favorable terms. Committees form in eastern towns to urge legislators, while a new consolidated laundry venture emerges for Spokane hotels. Mrs. C L Mood, Odessa rancher, becomes Spangle's mayor. Atlas Tic Co censures non citizens, threats time checks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Inland Empire
Lister
Pend Oreille River
Albany Falls
Idaho
Lincoln
Adams
Grant
Franklin
Douglas
Walla Walla
Whitman
Federal Reclamation Service
Spokane
Cascade
Consolidated Laundry
Spangle, Wash
C. L. Mood
United States
Coeur d’Alene
Tie Company
Tie Concern
German Propaganda Hearing Details Funded by German Embassy
A. Bruce Bielaski testified on December 9 before a senate committee investigating German propaganda in the United States. He cited a German propaganda budget of 7.5 million dollars within a 27.85 million total funded by the German embassy in Washington. The record urges united effort to defeat the enemy’s inside influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Bruce Bielaski
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Senate Committee
America
Washington
Old Papers for Sale for Packaging and Cleaning
Old papers offered at 25 cents per hundred by Echo office. Useful for packing wrapping and cleaning. Call at Echo office for purchase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Echo Office
Echo
Hints for the Housekeeper on Velvet and Rugs
Tips for velvet renovation using steam and nap lifting, plus making durable cloth from flour sacks. Bleaching and woolen nap restoration methods described. Rug cleaning guidance with soap ammonia gasoline lather and vacuum removal of moisture praised for efficacy. Notes on dwarf milo cultivation in Arizona and California for double cropping.
Sorghum Gains Value as Grain in Drought Regions
A government report notes sorghum and Kaffir corn resist drought and are increasingly grown for grain in the northwest. Grain yield rose from 8,944 acres in 1916 to 5,153,000 in 1917 and production from 53,858,000 to 75,866,000 bushels, with strong demand and stable prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central States
Milo
Democratic tariff impact on mining in the United States
The article uses official commerce data to argue that imports of copper ingots lead zinc and other metals rose under the democratic tariff year to date. It claims continued foreign competition will harm US miners and warns against government policy and tax burdens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Commerce
United States
Europe
Medical Research Endowment From Captain De Lamar
By the will of Captain Joseph Raphael De Lamar, mine owner and director, one half of the state valued around $20,000,000 is bequeathed to medical research. Funds go to Harvard University Medical School, Johns Hopkins University, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Raphael de Lamar
Harvard University Medical School
John Hopkins University
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
Australia Faces Rabbit Plague Amid War Shipping Shortages
War related shortages cut shipping for wire netting and poison. Australia suffers a rabbit scourge as chief weapons against the pest become unavailable, worsening agricultural damage and prompting urgent action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Also Mentioned on This Page
Washington News
United States Department of Agriculture
Arizona
California
Medical Research Endowment
Bethlehem
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Madras
Mackinaws
Toggery
Pipkin-Taytor Co., Inc
France
Red Cross
Seattle
UNION
W. E. Stevens
Manacer
4Th and Main St
Great Northern Lumber Co
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!