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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1917
Page
3
A conference of English girls' school teachers defines the ideal woman as forty, married, mother of five, living near a town. She maintains a spotless home, is sensible and religious, active in politics, charitable, well educated, multilingual, skilled in crafts, and capable in household management.
A 15 year old Gennaro De Rosa toiled for a month on twenty acres in Westchester while his mother Rosa De Rosa faced an education law charge. Magistrate Appleton suspended sentencing praising the boy’s patriotic work. Attendance Officers Puglieri and Carney testified to the intensive cultivation.
Topeka Kansas a Pawnee county farmer L G Palmer aged sixty two appeared eager to enlist. Officials refused due to age limit though he claimed fifteen years of telegraph experience and hoped to serve as a telegrapher draftsman or mechanic.
London saluted Lieutenant General Jan Smuts, relieved from command in German East Africa, with the freedom of the city. In an address he lauded the US entry as defending universal liberty and predicted the war’s end neared. He was to be offered a high military command and was expected to accept.
Cyrus Tomkins, a New York coast farmer, was seized by a British press gang from a ship in stormy seas. He vowed to return alive, swam through dangerous rollers by night guided by his son’s bonfire, and finally reached shore to reunite with his family.
In Plattsburg New York Captain commands with precise drills and steady discipline. John Okison describes how 167 volunteers under his magic transform from independent civilians into alert soldiers through exact formations and the emphasis on attention and readiness.
London reports Captain Albert Ball aged twenty one from the Royal Flying Corps is confirmed dead after a May 7 battle near Lens. Ball had downed forty German planes, earned the Distinguished Service Medal and the Military Cross, and lived in Nottingham.
In Greensburg Pennsylvania Louis Osterwise age seventy three collapses from an old Civil War wound as a bone at the bullet site gives way while in his chair. He is taken to Westmoreland hospital where doctors report a broken bone at the wound site and his condition is critical. The item sits among updates from Puget Sound ports and associated employment and industrial notes mentioning wage talks and shipyard contracts.
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