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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1905
Page
1
A worn notice states a business house and lot near L. W. Bloom residence are for sale with annual rent of 20 percent of the asking price. Contact D. H. Mayar for details.
Chelan county board of education adopts a consolidated list of text books for second class districts with exchanges continuing through January 1906. Noted publishers and titles include Ginn & Co Jones Readers, Heath Readers, McMillan geography, Scott Foresman Latin, and more, with some subjects awaiting adoption. Also includes miscellaneous notices and a classified shipping-lease style ad for real estate and a cooking stove wood promo.
Leavenworth, a town of about one thousand in the Great Northern Railway freight and passenger district, sits at Tumwater Canyon mouth, 150 miles east of Seattle and 23 miles west of Wenatchee. It offers pine forests, year round snow, flowers, trout filled rivers, affordable hotel stays, pure water and electric lighting.
A reader appeal highlights job openings in Leavenworth including a steam laundry, a bakery, and general labor. The town with about a thousand residents expects growth with the mill reopening and additional railroad workers arriving.
The census shows Philippine forests with 747 wood varieties worth about 3 billion dollars. It notes coal iron lead and potential gold and silver deposits. The Philippines cost the U S twenty million dollars paid to Spain, with further military and naval expenditures implied.
New Rochelle New York carpenter A Durr 35 years old announced he possesses a gold mine in his body and advertises to sell his body and two hearts after death. He has received telegraphic and telephone offers but keeps the price secret hoping for a higher offer from a scientist or medical college. He learned of the extra heart a few years ago during treatment for a minor illness.
A real estate deal involves a deed that becomes effective after Durr’s death with cash down. The arrangement names a buyer who receives the deed on a posthumous basis, reflecting a trust-like conveyance.
Weekly court house records show multiple transfers and deeds. Names include O Cline Tompkins Oliver Fleckner J H Brownfield Dora Tibbits Isabell Olive W P Dom Lucy Whisnand Laura Fisher Thos J Sain Thos J Benton Jeannette Peachy C J Cosad Lalla Bower Chas Schindler Samuel Gulick M H Stuckey Estella Searle JS Mooney R Albin C I Curtis Wright Stickney John Clarey Emilia Clarey AJ Hunt John A Brown I B Gray among others. Amounts range from 75 to 9000 dollars with properties in Nob Hill Chelan Am Ad Wen and other plats.
The Pacific Monthly launches a year of special editions including Portland Seattle Southern California San Francisco and Lewis and Clark Exposition souvenirs with Dr Wolf von Schierbrand contributing six articles on The Coming Supremacy of the Pacific. Printers offer Echo and Pacific Monthly together for 1.59 a year.
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