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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1917
Page
4
Washington secretary Houston appealed to the nation to boost food crop production for both American needs and allied requirements. He warned that wartime economic strains will persist even if hostilities end soon and urged emphasis on staple crops to prevent low prices.
London reports Sir Arthur Lee head of Britain's food production department urged bringing 5000 skilled American farmers to England. He cited need to counter Germany's submarine threat and maximize soil output with American farming methods and 2000 tractor plows. He praised American efficiency and innovation.
Twenty five toy German soldiers in full dress were found aboard the Vaterland in Hoboken. A customs guard discovered the tin figures in a cabin. Collector Malone arranged the gift to Commodore Hans Ruser Jr., the captain's son, who joyfully asked if it was Christmas when he opened the box.
In Chicago, the Rev. C Fairlee Jordan of Evanston Christian church, exhausted after a week of nightly sermons, lets his wife deliver a public sermon that evening. The overflow crowd shows strong approval of the switch.
Sir Ernest Shackleton argues for selective conscription to preserve specialists for the United States as long war lasts. He cites Australia and Britain to warn volunteering falters and predicts Germany’s defeat despite burdens. Apollinaire notes autobuses as death omens and gold coins as frontline talismans shaping superstition and morale.
Mount Vernon New York. After five years in court William G Barrett of Katonah lost a $1000 claim against New York State for poplar trees destroyed by beavers on his Adirondack game preserve. The Court of Appeals reversed the prior ruling, concluding the beavers caused the damage and that they were wards of the state.
Purdue university records show that none of the women graduates are divorced and that a large share of the female graduates are married.
In Middleboro Massachusetts a mule endured heavy ice and snow to deliver rural mail where a horse and later an automobile failed. Carrier Samuel Guilford tried horse transport on a March storm day, then used a mule to complete the route with no further trouble.
Four residents of Galesville Wisconsin have died and many are ill with a baffling illness. Schools are closed and officials seek help from outside doctors. Physicians report swollen glands and high fever as symptoms but say effective treatment is not yet found.
Trenton New Jersey plans a summer coast patrol guard of 200 girls led by Miss Ethel A Grosscup. The battalion will train in Red Cross work at Seaside Park with camp and equipment approved by Governor Edge and Adjutant General Barber.
Washington reports Dr George B Hale chair of the National Research Council urged international scientific mobilization to assist in defeating Germany. He sent cables to Royal Society England Academie des Sciences Paris Petograd and Rome outlining cooperation with the United States National Academy of Sciences. Textile experts offer to assist, with Alexander H Meyer proposing access to vast textile data and letters sent to 600 department stores seeking buyer advisers for government supplies.
Congressman Dudley Doolittle of Cottonwood Falls Kansas returns from Washington with his wife and two month old daughter Beverly. To comfort the infant on the long trip they carried her in a large market basket lined with pillows and quilts, an arrangement that kept Bever ly serene and sleeping most of the journey.
A youth about thirteen or fourteen attempted to hold up Theo dore Swindall on the south side. Swindall spanked the boy on the night in question.
New York May 1 6 declared Baby Week nationwide. The Babies Welfare Association of NYC urges local groups to celebrate in their districts and cautions against a central campaign. Parents will be informed of babyhood needs and rights through local activities.
Cincinnati boasts it is the only Ohio city with an entire Vine family enlisting for war service. James A. Vine’s son serves in a guard regiment while his father joined the regiment band. Vine’s wife and daughter also enlist in the Red Cross unit.
In Grassy Point near Haverstraw Frank Grimes was thought dead penniless but relatives locating seven dust covered bank books and $25,000 in cash and securities plus deeds valued similarly, plan to search further for more treasure.
Albany reports that if war breaks out New York State could muster about 570,000 men for military service and a similar number for home defense. State data from census records of enlistment exhibitors suggests 2.48 million males aged eighteen to forty five, with 10.49 million residents in 1917. Williams, acting health commissioner, notes at least the same number could serve in home defense if needed.
Stewart Springer at eighteen left New York on August 6 1914 as cook aboard the British freighter Pearlmoor. He later endured four sinkings torpedoes mines and battles near the Scilly Isles the Bay of Biscay the Dardanelles and the North Sea, returning home broken in health and nerves.
W J Norris, walnut lumber dealer from northeast Missouri, harvests on G W Hope’s 160 acre tract near Shelbyville. About 50 000 feet of lumber will be produced from trees averaging forty years in age, with one specimen showing 152 rings and yielding two sixteen foot logs thirty inches in diameter. Veneering and airplane lumber are planned uses for the logs.
Gordon Thorne and Miss Virginia Milner wed in Chicago and travel to California for their honeymoon carrying a $2,000 check from Townsend Netcher the best man. Thorne had bet Netcher last autumn that he would win Miss Milner, a wager the guest accepted with pleasure as the check was signed.
In Monterey Dry Hill C Wellman and crew heard a rattlesnake while felling timber. They located the snake under a horse hoof, where it could rattle but not strike. The men killed the snake.
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