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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1911
Page
3
The Panama Canal project nears finish with excavation only 44 million cubic yards remaining and the locks 52 percent poured. Gates, dam work, and dredging advance. 22 slides in Culebra cut are handled, with water supply to come from Gatun dam.
Keep fruit cool until use or market and do not pick wet berries. Dig up and burn red rust infected blackberry or blackcap plants. Muzzle horses when plowing the orchard and pad whiffle trees and outer harrow edges. Avoid grain or grass crops in young orchards and stir soil biweekly until August. Apply manure after rain and watch for slugs on pear or cherry leaves. dust or sprays can eliminate them.
The Curtis publications introduce new advertising rates for Ladies Home Journal and Saturday Evening Post, with lines and page prices as high as seven thousand dollars for back covers. The piece argues advertising is an investment, not an expense, and praises merchants who invest in ads.
Readers are urged to combat poultry lice with kerosene in every crack and crevice and to monitor boxes and young chickens for infestations. Advice includes letting cool night air in with inch mesh netting, using sweet oil to finish off lice, and reminders from ancient law about the sanctity of home and land as wealth.
A defense of federal income tax as the only effective method is presented with examples from England and early U.S. attempts. The text cites state failures to tax incomes at the source and lists preliminary figures from several states plus a general assertion for federal levies. A second notice announces a land entry opportunity in Wenatchee National Forest Washington with listed tracts and deadlines for homestead applications and preference rights.
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