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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1914
Page
4
The State tax commission directs county assessors to rate cattle ages nine to twenty months as yearlings for March 1, with proportional values such as nine months at fifteen dollars and fifteen months at twenty five dollars. It plans to reorganize hearings with railroad input first and urges support for tax reform ending the general property tax system.
The Washington Children's Home Society abandons its New York block office and relocates to rooms 19-20 in the Lippy building at Third and Columbia. It seeks 100 applications for boys aged four to fifteen and urges applicants to be kind hearted, mentally competent, Sabbath observant and churchgoing. blanks available on request from L. J. Covington, State Superintendent.
An advisory indicates that compulsory vaccination laws apply only to school districts of the first class with populations over 10 000. Leavenworth in a second class district has no such law, leaving parents to decide on vaccination. The legal opinion, from Arlington Washington, notes no authority for second or third class districts to require vaccination for admission to public schools.
H D Ely of Bantam Ohio suffered a four year ulcer on his foot. Doctors advised amputation, but he declined and tried Bucklen's Amiasy as a last resort. The salve reportedly cured the ulcer completely. Also advertised as a remedy for burns cuts bruises and eczema at 25 cents from H E Bucklen & Co.
In Idaho a mail contractor between Stites and Elk City faces a surge as 50,000 pound parcel post shipments arrive from Spokane. Three car loads of 50 pound ore packages were recently handed over for delivery, and a 50,000 pound grocery parcel is expected along the same route. The 60 mile shuttle may require auto freighters. Elk City traders also anticipate dry goods and hardware from Spokane.
In Seattle a broad coalition of Washington's top employers and the Employers' Association of Washington join to push open shop in manufacturing. They warn Seattle's closed shop would mimic San Francisco's decline in firms and workers, opposing Gompers bid to unionize lumber and shingle mills.
The Sears Roebuck report for the first ten months of 1913 shows mail order sales totaling 75,998,051 dollars, up from 65,989,805 dollars in the same period of 1912, indicating country merchants can expand their business under the zone system as mail order houses do. The New West Trade.
E. G. Wheeler promotes Adler-i-ka as the Leavenworth agency for buckthorn bark glycerine based patent medicine. The ad claims the remedy cures appendicitis and delivers swift relief from sour stomach gas and constipation with immediate effect.
Chelan County Commissioners set a hearing on April 6 1914 at 10 a m for the SBH Ritchie petition to establish a herd district covering parts of town 24 N range 17 E Willamette Meridian. Objections from residents must appear. Clerk D N Gelatly signs the notice.
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