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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1922
Page
2
Leavenworth Echo Subscriptions Information
Issued every Friday subscription is 2.50 dollars per year in advance. readers are instructed to address all communications to The Leavenworth Echo.
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Leavenworth Echo
Tax Relief Committee Formed by Colfax Taxpayers Group
A Colfax formed county taxpayers association appoints a committee to ease real estate tax burden. Vice-president O L Waller of State College chairs the panel with Senator F J Wilmer County Commissioner A L Maxwell Fred McCroskey and Fred Rogers of Colfax as members.
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New County Taxpayers Association
Colfax
O. L. Waller
the State College
F. J. Wilmer
A. L. Maxwell
Fred McCroskey
Fred Rogers
World rises to remark on Wenatchee Echo clash
The Wenatchee World responds to a prior Echo article about regional growth and insists the Echo should invite the World to conference. The piece questions the Echo’s timing on critiques and notes a long‑standing Leavenworth terminal relocation claim linked to Wenatchee.
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Wenatchee
The
Echo
Leavenworth
Wenatcher
Political Ads Stir Rhetoric Amid Public Health Fears
A fragmented report notes rising political ads and alleged bootlegger tactics shaping public opinion. The piece argues about advertising ethics and the perceived impact on national health policy and safety.
Extravagance Contemplated in Wenatchee County Plans
A Wenatchee county controversy questions buying a new site for county buildings at a large cost. After purchasing extra property near the present court house, the county board may seek a distant site and fund a grand new structure, arguing for public utility while opponents warn against inflated public spending. The letter cites local boosters and fears Wenatchee influence on decisions affecting regional access and long term county needs.
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Wenatchee
Court House
Kentuckian Pushes Whistles On Moonshine Stilts For Convenience
A Kentuckian advocates adding whistles to moonshine stilts to improve ease of use and safety. The proposal envisions audible alerts to signal movements and prevent spills, highlighting practical benefits in rural distilling practices.
Wolves killing stock sparks rights dispute in Montana
Wolves are blamed for livestock losses in Montana provoking a dispute over predator control and the rights of the meat industry to protect herds. The issue underscores tensions between wildlife management and ranching interests.
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Montana
Meat Trust
Supreme Court Confirms Nineteenth Amendment Rights
The Supreme Court confirms the constitutionality of the nineteenth amendment and guarantees suffrage to all citizens regardless of sex.
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Supreme Court
Execution of famed French guillotine murderer ends spree
The condemned killer who murdered ten women and one youth was executed, marking a grim end to a notorious chapter in French history. The device known as the guillotine carried out its final service, ending a long string of crimes.
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Ebeard
Grant County trims salaries to cut taxes
Grant County adopts wage reductions for county offices with chiefs limited to 100 per month and other deputies limited to 90. Road foremen, drivers, machinists, laborers and teamsters also face pay cuts as retrenchment to lower taxes and reduce hardship.
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Grant County
Hi E
Officers trusted less as narcotics law enforcement questioned
Disclosures show officers tasked with enforcing narcotic and liquor laws sometimes infiltrate illicit traffic themselves. Peddling booze and dope grows into a menace. The idea that it takes a thief to catch a thief fails at times, prompting public discontent with lax and excessive law observance. Widespread suspicion replaces mutual surveillance.
Turning point in progress and trust across the New World
The passage questions whether nations have reached a limit of moral and civil progress and warns that progression may give way to retrogression. It ponders if the peoples of the New World are nearing a turning point in their development.
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New World
Skookum Packers Vote to Break Market Contracts
At a Wenatchee meeting last week the Skookum association voted to release local units from marketing contracts except one carload per unit. The move weakens the five year contract with the Northwestern Fruit Exchange and reduces the group to a limited market.
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Skookim ‘ Ackers Association
Wenatchee
Skook.m Association
Skookum Association
Northwestern Fruit Exchange
Washington Descriptive and Statistical Information for the Traveler
The pamphlet from the Bureau of Statistics and Immigration lists counties with their locations and leading features. It emphasizes visual illustrations and notes the publication is a clipped issue.
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Bureau of S* Tistics and Immigration
Washington
Supreme Court upholds Jones Act shipping rule for Alaska
The court affirms Sec. 7 of the Jones Act requiring goods moving to and from Alaska to travel on American vessels. The ruling is framed as limiting foreign competition and is criticized as fostering monopoly or equivalent power, with impact seen as the same whether labeled monopoly or not.
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United States Supreme Court
Territory
Alaska
Seventeen Year Old Kills Man in Courtroom Tragedy
A seventeen year old girl, betrayed by a fifty nine year old man, shot him dead in the courtroom where he stood trial. He had been sentenced earlier to nine years, but the case was remanded on a technicality. The act provoked debate over justice and chastity as a human trait.
Economist advocates income tax with cautions
An economist from Washington State College supports an income tax in principle but warns it could be used to drain more money from citizens. He notes it would burden those with tangible property and suggests revising the general tax system to avoid shifting extra load to property owners, especially the non possessors of tangible property.
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Washington State College
Labor Federation calls campaign to repeal Volstead act
The American Federation of Labor in Washington last week urged citizens to join labor groups in opposing prohibition and supporting a measure to allow sale of light wines and beer. It argues labor, not parties, should decide liquor policy and suggests unions may influence future questions on the matter.
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Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
Washington
Federation of Labor
City Council Minutes and Expenditures 1922
The February 28 1922 city council meeting approved minutes and bills. Funds listed include 26000 for hose for the fire department and various small items for prisoners, offices, and water system maintenance. Ordinance 217 banning stray dogs was read and defeated. The remark notes wet weather delaying spring plowing but favorable for seed testing.
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Blomel
Walker
Potter
Cascade
German-born Leavenworth settler Charles Albright Dies at 78
Charles Albright died Sunday February 26 1922 at his Leavenworth home from old age. Born November 29 1843 in Germany he came to America as a boy and lived in Ohio Illinois and Kansas before settling near Leavenworth. Survived by wife Margaret and three daughters Mrs S E Brune Woodburn Oregon Mrs Tom Darling and Mrs Sexton Carlquist Leavenworth and daughter-in-law Mrs Anna Albright Leavenworth. Funeral Wednesday at the Methodist church with Rev Hoskins officiating and Leavenworth Cemetery interment by Leavenworth Undertaking Co.
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Charles Albright
Leavenworth
Mr. Albright
Germany
America
Ohio
Margaret Lentz
Albrights
Illinois
Kansas
Albright
Methodist
Hoskins
Leavenworth Undertaking Co
Card of Thanks from the Albrights and Families
Card of thanks extends gratitude to dear friends who helped during the illness and death of husband and father. Appreciation for floral offerings, choir members, pallbearers, and all who kindly aided the family. Signed by Mother Albright, S E Brune and Family, Thos Darling and Family, Sexton Carlquist and Family, Anna Albright and Family.
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Mother Albright
S. E. Brune
Thos. Darling
Sexton Carlquist
Anna Albright
Without records dairy herd relies on knowing cows to keep
An old saying underscores that without proper records you cannot select the right cows for a dairy herd. It emphasizes tracking data to make breeding, feeding, and culling decisions.
Captain Ebbert to Speak on The Unfinished Battle
Captain F B Ebbert of the General Counsel Pacific Coast Dept Anti Saloon League of America will speak at the Methodist church on Wednesday March 8 at 7 30 pm His theme is The Unfinished Battle All welcome.
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F. B. Ebbert
General Counsel
Pacific Coast Dept. Anti- Saloon League of America
Livestock Meeting Draws Experts From Three States
Directors of the Agricultural Experiment Stations of Oregon Washington and Idaho and professors of animal husbandry from the three states will attend the annual livestock meeting at the Washington Irrigation Experiment Station in Prosser on March 7. They will discuss the work of the three states in experimental feeding of animals and assess market values.
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Oregon
Washington
Idanoe
Prosser
Jar¢ne and
Iddings
Idaho
Pres
E. O. Holland
W S. C
Ke, C. Johnson
Williams Hyslop and R Achoskey to Produce 70 Swabs
William Hyslop a former professor of animal husbandry at WSC and now head of Hyslop Sheep Co in Spokane teams with R Achoskey of the Northwest Sheen Co North Portland to manufacture 14 lots of five unit swabs.
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William Hyslop
W.S.C
Hyslop Sheep Co
Spokane
R. Aohoskey
Northwest Sheen Co
North Portland
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