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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1914
Page
4
A Chicago Record-Herald item quotes a woman saying she laughs at a man’s looks as his wife believes every other woman is trying to lure him away. The passage highlights domestic perception and social commentary on appearances.
The marble slab at Glenalmond School recalls Alexander Cumine Russell of the Seventy Fourth Highlanders who, at seventeen, gave his life during the Birkenhead disaster. He saved a sailor from the sinking troopship by entering the sea to help him into a boat, then perished as the vessel disappeared, hailed by all aboard with blessings.
A Flemish artist created the smallest painting in the world on the smooth side of a grain of corn. The work shows a detailed mill, a miller with a grain sack, a horse and cart, and a group of peasants on a road.
The largest canvas, a panorama of the Mississippi River by John Banvard, is said to be twenty two feet high and nearly two miles long, depicting 2000 miles of the Father of Waters. Murillo’s Christ Child appearance to St Anthony is noted as a tall old master vase, eight by ten feet. Salvator Rosa once proved a harp sicord worth little could become valuable after a bet, painting a landscape that sold for a thousand scudi and earned high regard.
Einstein's relativity implies radiating bodies lose mass and the sun loses Earth's mass in 30 million years. The effect could shift year length by six seconds per million years and delay seasons by about thirty six days per million years, with larger shifts in hotter stars like Algol over millennia.
The old Devon town of Honiton suspends arrest for a day during its horse fair as a Henry III era custom. A town crier in beadle dress bears a gilt floral glove, rings a bell, proclaims the glove is up, and no man may be arrested until the glove is down at sunset. Children chorus the lines and scatter for nuts when the glove is lowered.
Mme Adam recalls she started in journalism by refusing the crinoline during fashion’s sway. Alphonse Karr denounced crinolines, then asserted every pretty woman wore one. She replied with a witty letter to the editor and launched a periodical career later praised by Le Siecle and Westminster Gazette.
A waitress recalls a week in an upper room where women customers tip very little. She cites a well dressed woman who took a dime left by a man and returned it, illustrating a perceived habit of women to withhold gratuities in dining venues.
A brief, wry observation about family concern and hospital trials. The speaker notes three autopsies performed at the hospital before recovery begins, in a darkly humorous tone.
A London boy offers a halfpenny to a baker asking to be a “buster bun” then requests it be shoved down his back. A larger boy follows and robs the till as the baker misses the mischief, illustrating a comic yet opportunistic street episode from Strand Magazine.
A Chicago Record Herald piece extols New York as the premier American city, claiming unmatched skyscrapers, bridges, hotels, stock market influence, seaport, rail hubs, banking leadership, cultural output, and larger native population than Cohoes. It compares favorably to Pittsburgh and Dublin and Jerusalem in various measures.
A witty exchange from the Manchester Guardian where a boy answers the cashier with quiet assurance that he works there and is soon recognized after a lengthy absence, prompting a humorous remark about memory and recognize.
Horace Greeley and Mary Youngs Cheney wed on their first meeting after a years long correspondence. A matchmaker friend arranged the union. She disliked his looks though she married him after a proposal by letter. Their married life lasted long and was happy until her death.
Nancy Heideman sues Albert Heideman in Chelan County Superior Court seeking a decree dissolving their marriage on grounds of desertion. The summons requires appearance within sixty days of July 8 1914 with dates of publication through August 7 1914. KH. H. FOX is the attorney for the plaintiff.
An OCR style roster lists presidential cabinet members and state officials led by Woodrow Wilson with names for secretary posts, governors, legislators, judges, and district officers. The document enumerates positions from Secretary of State to Supreme Judges and local land district registers with several named individuals.
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