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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1914
Page
3
A teacher insists on silence as Thomas is urged to speak. He calmly reports a man nearby who left with the teacher’s new silk umbrella, revealing a small, humorous incident in a domestic setting from the Ladies' Home Journal.
Listings from Echo Leavenworth Wash offer multiple tracts near Leavenworth and Merritt. 28 acres with 10 tillable 8 cultivated 1500 price. 40 acres 6 cultivated 1% bearing orchard 2000 price. 42 acres 8 cultivated 4 years orchard timber balance with irrigation. Terms offered and inquiries directed to Echo Leavenworth Wash.
Research at Washington State College Pullman shows soils already hold rainfall below ten feet and yields rise from adding barnyard manure and leguminous crops rather than summer fallowing. Experiments compare favorably with Rothamsted, where continuous cropping with manure increased yields. In other notes, a Medicinal Plant Garden and student enrollments in Agriculture and Horticulture are reported, with regional origin details.
State College notes show 17 000 books circulated to students this year and 35 high schools seeking debate and thesis materials. Arthur M. Henry, UF graduate now in Forestry, joins college Forestry after Biltmore School disbanded. Chemistry re tests lard aged ten years and studies tannin in bark from Western Washington trees for possible tannin industry. George Watkins Evans, Seattle mining engineer and College alumnus, becomes consulting mining engineer for Northern Pacific Railway’s Washington and Montana mines. Women students form a separate Women's Athletic Association and engage in cross country activities.
A man around sixty tells a friend he must marry so someone will close his eyes at death. The friend counters that someone may open them instead. The quip is from The Marriageable Age by Rev. E. J. Hardy.
A humorous exchange notes Hiram finishing the hundred in ten seconds, prompting a joke about wiring him home at high cost. A brief cartoonish dialogue and a quip about wealth and self sufficiency close the snippet.
A 19th century style advertisement urges parents to use Kickapoo Worm Killer candy to expel worms in children. It describes symptoms such as pale appearance, restlessness, coated tongue, bad breath, stomach pain, and diarrhea, promising easy dosing and quick results for 25 cents at druggists.
A fragment from a periodical features a mock dialogue about a jealous wife seen as a money source for her husband and an advertisement touting Dr King's New Discovery for a three year cough. Jennie Flemming of New Dover Ohio testifies to its cure and urges readers to buy a 50 cent bottle. Bucklen's Arnica Salve is also pitched for pimples.
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