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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1917
Page
4
A down on his luck man reads a personal ad, lands a factory job, rises to $2000 a month, marries, and receives a $10 000 deed and a mysterious inheritance from his anonymous uncle who controls the mills. The uncle reveals his plan to train him as president before dying, leaving him the shares and leadership.
Sioux Falls report notes labor shortage drives farm hands to work longer hours. Women and children toil in fields as farmers expand wheat and food crop acreage amid war demand. Typical pay rises to 35 to 45 dollars per month with board, a jump from earlier 12 to 20 dollar wages.
Antonio a poor Madrid mason is hired by a stranger to seal a niche in a basement wall. Months later a nun visit reveals a missing communion service. Antonio uncovers the box behind the wall, proves a confederate caretaker’s guilt, and is rewarded with a good church job.
In a Bay of Biscay encounter a German U boat forced the schooner Phineas W Sprague to shelter within three miles of Spain. Locals boarded the helpless vessel and looted it during a fatal clash. the Sprague was a total loss with one pirate killed. Captain Jarvis and chief officer Johnson survived aboard the same returning liner.
A screech owl caused Morgantown North Carolina to lose power when it tried to land on an electric insulator. The bird's wings were burned by the live wire and the insulator burst. The line wire burned in two and the current shut off automatically at the switching station.
In Wichita Mrs. Sam Sanders dropped a five dollar bill and three one dollar bills. John Young, a police captain, and bystanders chased the money as the five dollar bill was recovered by a passerby who returned it with a bow. The others were not recovered.
Two wealthy New Yorkers sought draft exemption for sons aged a bit over twenty one by buying farms and appointing them as farm superintendents. They asked Representative Charles B. Smith if this would qualify as agricultural exemption. The War Department cautioned that neighbors would expose the ruse and doubt it would work.
In Stockholm the Bakers Association presents a memorial to the state economic commission urging use of oat or barley flour in bread due to rye and wheat flour shortages. Meanwhile 5,000 female factory workers march for better milk distribution and lower prices as hunger demonstrations spread across the kingdom.
A massive blue white meteor traversed the sky for about half a minute lighting the eastern Sierra Nevada. It struck the mountains with a loud crash that echoed for miles, sending rocks tumbling near Round Valley Tungsten company camp. Washington industries surge highlights rail, power, mining, and farming in defense. Yale plans a 15000 dollar suspension bridge over the Lewis River.
Cleveland report says Uncle John Flannagan ninety one of Defiance Ohio rose at two teams of horses, did chores, worked a day on the streets and at home, then walked to an Elks meeting. He issued a handicap endurance contest challenge to any ninety plus Ohio men, pledging to compete under a year’s handicap.
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