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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1911
Page
3
Mil waukee Health Commissioner Dr Frederick A Kraft promotes onions and olive oil as a preventive for scarlet fever and diphtheria. He cites cases showing no disease where onions and oil were used and urges widespread adoption, recommending raw onion with oil at night for best results.
Personal property tax lists reveal Chicago's top wealth holders: Mrs. Nettie F. McCormick $2,595,000, Mrs. Emmons Blaine $1,950,000, and Virginia McCormick $1,350,000. Blaine questions wealth inequality, while Jane Addams shows no personal property and Ella Flagg Young reports $500.
Forty years ago Sanford J. Baker of Waterville Maine devised a spring wire leg clamp to restrain hens from scratching gardens. The contraption, patented but apparently not marketed, would bend double with spring arms pushing the bird forward each time it tried to scratch.
At the International Sunday School convention in San Francisco the secretary announced 14,946,504 Sunday school pupils in the U S, up 1,431,006 in three years. The gain equals about 11 percent, showing growing religious training among the young despite shifts from Puritanical norms. Birth does not determine destiny.
Article notes renewed drive by the American Medical Association to create a Department of Public Health through Congress. It cites Johnson the Kansas City cancer specialist and battles over misbranding laws as part of the impetus for stricter medicine regulations. It mentions opposition from medical freedom groups and ongoing reforms in proprietary medicines. Southeast Washington expects a record crop amid optimism for the year. A cautionary maxim on happiness closes the piece.
Department of the Interior U S Land Office at Waterville Wash June 1 1901 Notice is hereby given that Winofield Faulkner of Leavenworth Washington who on May 15 1901 made Homestead Entry No for nw sec 24 township 12 range 12 Willamette meridian has fled notice of intention to make five year proof to establish claim to the land above described before F A Reynolds U S Commissioner at Leavenworth Washington on July 15 1901 Claimant names as witnesses Geo Logham M E Carr Geo Hood and Jack Heathen all of Leavenworth Washington June 27 1901 F H Haynes Register
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