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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1914
Page
3
A photograph features a single panel from the large frieze titled The Chariot of Pheaton by Bruno Zimm. It adorns the exterior base of the dome of the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
In a New York Mail item, Jeremiah Mason uses a deceptive pretext to reveal a witness’s handwriting on a referenced statement. He notes the witness’s habit of touching his waistcoat pocket, then exposes the paper to demonstrate the words were the opposing counsel’s. The scene ends with Mason leaving the courtroom.
An English traveler recounts a grisly South American desperado tale. A farmer wakes to noise as thieves cut a door hole. He uses a rawhide thong looped as a lasso to catch a hand slipping through the opening. The story ends with the thief ensnared by the improvised noose.
The passage describes a Russian law that controversially grants stolen goods to thieves after five years of possession. It notes a licensed thieves market where stolen items from over five years prior are openly sold, attracting both thieves and some honest buyers.
A tramp knocked at a cottage in Ireland seeking Mike McCann. The policeman answered, and after a tense exchange the tramp identified the officer as the missing man by recognizing a battered scone the cop offered him, proving the alarmed resident was indeed Mike McCann.
An old advertisement urges parents to buy Kickapoo Worm Killer candy to expel intestinal worms in children. It claims many kids have worms, notes symptoms like pale tongue, restlessness, stomach pain, and bad breath, and promotes a 25 cent box available from druggists.
In Dews bury Yorkshire a bell named Black Tom of Soothill is rung on Christmas Eve. The bell was given to the church to expiate a murder, and its midnight toll is famed as the devil's knell across Yorkshire, tied to the belief that the devil died when Christ was born.
Land bargains in the Upper Wenatchee Valley with tracts near Leavenworth and Merritt. Listings include 28 acres 10 tillable 8 cultivated, price 1500. 40 acres with 6 cultivated and 1% in bearing orchard, price 2000. 42 acres with 8 cultivated and 4 in orchard, price available. All irrigated with ample water.
A fragment from a 19th century newspaper blends social chat about two architects and a boy with an advertisement for Dr. King's New Discovery for coughs and Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The piece promotes remedies with testimonials and prices.
The farmer grows high grade wheat while the miller oversees all processing with care to produce perfect flour. This aims to end baking troubles for customers and asks if you can start today.
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