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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1917
Page
4
Charles B Towns of New York submits a twenty page argument to Congress urging a special committee to investigate federal responsibility in solving the habit forming drug problem. He argues for tighter Harrison narcotic law amendments and strict physician accounting for all prescribed drugs.
In Stamford Connecticut a Newfoundland named Jack was made an honorary member of the Ponus Yacht Club for years of watchdog service. Russell Hart presented the collar inscribed Jack honorary member Ponus Yacht club as Jack barked in acknowledgment. In New York a brownstone on West Seventy eighth Street was converted into a kennel for Gerry Snow Jr.’s twenty dogs with lavish amenities.
Miss Jessie L. Simpson becomes the first woman named clerk to a Senate committee. Appointed by Senator Stone for the Foreign Relations Committee, she succeeds W R Hollister and also serves as Stone's secretary. Her $3000 salary ranks among the top government pay for women, behind Julia Lathrop.
Public Health Service warns that rising food prices may worsen pellagra by forcing unbalanced diets. Excessive costs reduced intake of milk meat eggs beans and peas, key pellagra preventatives, risking increased cases in 1917. The report cites national crop value at 8.93 billion dollars in 1916, up sharply from prior years.
Albert P. Legge of Waukegan Illinois failed to marry a local girl and enlist in the US Marine Corps after a recruiter rejected him for too low arches in his feet and red hair. The surgeon cited arches too flat for service hiking and stated he had stood on them too much.
Milwaukee. B E Sunny president of the Chicago Telephone company told University club members that government ownership of hens is more timely than federal control of railroads and utilities. He said the average person cares more about egg prices than freight rates or telephone regulation.
A Bronx County Medical Society proposal outlines a new fee schedule for physicians, stating free medical advice over the phone will end. Nonmedical inquiries may be discussed, but medical questions such as a baby’s ailment could incur a $1 charge. Additional fees apply if a physician is called for one family member and others ask about another’s symptoms.
New Yorks criminal identification bureau has enlarged its fingerprint department to handle over 190000 impressions from across the United States Canada and Europe. Under Inspector Faurot the bureau operates as a clearing house offering free fingerprint service to other departments and classifies prints by whirls loops arches and deltas.
Chicago vaudeville magician quits the show over high egg prices. He breaks eighteen eggs per performance, doing two a day earlier, but at seven daily turns he would owe himself money by week’s end due to rising egg costs.
Albert T Patrick the wealthy oil man who faced three death sentences for the Rice murder in New York announces his engagement to Mildred West daughter of a Tulsa oil operator They plan to marry in June Patrick was pardoned by New York Governor Dix on November 28 1912 after ten years in prison His previous fiancée Mrs Addie M Francis died a year after their wedding and his liberty was aided by her brother John T Milliken of St Louis and by prominent supporters The case remains one of the era s most remarkable legal fights
Madison Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin female domestic economy students will earn high marks for shop work based on pedometer steps. The test compares girls walking in a home cottage with men in engineering shops to measure daily kitchen labor.
Two year old daughter of Mrs. G. O. Mills wandered onto a railway right of way as a passenger train neared. Half the train passed over her before stopping. Blood flowed from her face but a hospital check showed only a small flesh wound on the left cheek.
Captain O. Johnson of the steamer Grays Harbor reports three sleepless nights at sea caused by eleven cats. The stowaway felines repeatedly return ashore with the ship and persist in haunting the crew.
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