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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1912
Page
3
An advertisement asserts catarrh is a constitutional disease and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo. It claims internal dosing from 10 drops to a teaspoonful, targets blood and mucous surfaces, offers $100 if it fails, and directs readers to Druggists to purchase for 75 cents.
The Northwest reports a February excursion to California by Southwest Washington and Olympic Peninsula groups to boost inter-coast ties. It outlines Puget Sound harbor bond plans up to 3.5 million, a Panama Canal terminal goal, and Seattle kennel club ambitions. Alaska’s 1912 growth, added ships Mariposa and Cordova, and rising mining activity are noted, along with toll-free Panama Canal talk and optimistic apple crop forecasts from O W R N officials.
A Tacoma convention set for February 21-22 will discuss immigration policy for the Pacific coast after the Panama Canal. Governors from four states and a Canadian lieutenant governor are invited while a Division of Information plan seeks to steer qualified newcomers and aid them once settled.
The piece surveys methods of measuring public opinion before elections. It critiques straw polls and presidential pitches as unreliable barometers and notes the bias of letters to pro bono publico columns. It asserts the ballot box remains the only real gauge, though not perfectly conclusive.
The piece urges farmers to take practical actions at home and on the road. It emphasizes safe domestic life with a good wife and stresses self reliance through tasks like filing the crosscut saw and sharpening tools. It advocates cleaning, road maintenance, and shoveling paths to improve daily life and infrastructure.
The article extols paying by check as safe and verifiable, with signed checks returning monthly to the payer. It urges filing old checks as proof of payment and notes the bank keeps them for safekeeping. It compares farm investment to merchant capital and advocates applying clean business methods.
Paying bills by check is presented as a cost free, effective step toward better business methods across all phases of farm management. The note from Western Farm emphasizes practical financial discipline as a path to improved farm operations.
Mark Twain recounts a Virginia City Enterprise anecdote about a subscriber finding a spider in his paper. He explains in the Answers to Correspondents column that the spider signified merchants not advertising and would spin a web to secure a free and undisturbed existence.
A Danville Virginia reader reports two years of heart distress blamed on a bad heart but says Dr King’s New Life Pills cured indigestion. Advertises pills as best for stomach liver and kidney troubles constipation headache and debility with a 25 cent price at druggists.
Advertisement claims the tea treats indigestion loss of appetite dull brain and various bodily discomforts by stimulating digestion and liver and kidney function, promising better sleep and overall well being. It emphasizes a simple remedy for stomach and systemic malaise.
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