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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1920
Page
2
The Echo states all condolence and fundraising notices or any paid business promotion must run at regular advertising rates. Free space is offered for moral or broadly beneficial community movements. Back issues are 25 cents each except for the current month.
The text argues that farmers, railroad workers, coal miners, tailors and other workers owe a duty to the public to keep production and trade uninterrupted. It holds that strikes threaten daily life and warmth and that public stability requires workers to ignore agitators and maintain full industrial operation.
Sir Auckland Geddes argues England’s high food prices stem from vast gold accumulation in America. The piece questions why food is expensive in America and notes other local items such as a baseball team plan for Cashmere and fuel tax hints toward Rockefeller finances affecting prices.
In Minnesota the presidential primary results show General Wood ahead by a substantial margin. Hiram Johnson ranks second, Hoover third, and Lowden fourth, with Wood strongest where voting strength is indicated.
City leaders urge immediate action to form a band and support a baseball team to boost community spirit. Prominent citizens are called to lead and financial backing is expected from public supporters.
Seven of the eleven T W W arrested in the Centria murder on Armistice Day were found guilty of second degree by a jury last Saturday. Roberts confessed and was found insane. Elmer Smith and Mike Sheehan were acquitted. Convicted are Eugene Barnett John Lamb James McInerney Ray Becker Bert Bland O C Bland and Britt Smith. A new trial was to be requested and sentence withheld until decision.
The early week blizzard strikes Fastern Montana with Dakota and Minnesota, causing multiple deaths as schoolchildren perish on the way home. The piece notes past storms of the 1880s and 1890s claimed far more lives given sparse landmarks guiding victims to shelter.
Four major farmers organizations issued a statement asserting that organized railroad labor has no right to strike now or in the future. They contend the power to strike cannot exist.
The United States Department of Agriculture notes success in grading mongrel flocks by using pure breeding males. The Bureau of Animal Industry reports third generation Barred Plymouth Rock grades show uniform color and type, while White Plymouth Rocks improved though not all pure white. Some individuals closely resemble pure stock, making differentiation by appearance difficult.
The School Board notes a three fifths vote rule in the school code blocks the bond election due to debt exceeding one and one half percent of district value. A mass meeting of patrons is called for March 22 at 7 30 PM in the high school assembly to discuss finishing and furnishing the gymnasium.
Real estate of all kinds offered including homes ranches and acreage in Amanda Town. Orchard holdings and apple orchards are listed among properties for sale.
A nostalgic column cites a Mexican printer claiming to have isolated bugs from mescal tequila and sotol plants to create a legal, purchasable bite that supposedly induces Irish republican feelings. He promises two test bugs named Lillie and Billie and hints at selling the concept for 10 cents a bite.
A historical note on Luther Burbank’s plant inventions describing his cross breeding of varieties. It mentions seeds and pollen transfer to create new varieties in his garden and the vast scale of his claimed future outputs and profits.
The article discusses bamboo groves as a potential farmer aid, noting Georgia houses a grove under the U S department of agriculture. Young shoots offer early edible value and stalks serve various uses, with imports costing the U S about 5 000 000 dollars yearly for canes and fishing rods.
Medical observers in Geneva note German statistics claiming 1.086 girls born per 1,000 boys in later war years, reversing prewar 1,000 to 940 ratios. They caution that wartime nutrition and conditions could influence sex ratios, or that the figures may be flawed.
The Christian Herald notes that literacy in Arab areas is low due to reliance on literary Arabic. Rev. Percy Smith begins translating the Bible and church hymns into the spoken dialect to reach common people, rather than traditional literary Arabic.
Rear Admiral Ralph Earle announced at the American Chemical Society meeting that a superior power source for underwater torpedoes is needed. The current system uses compressed air. any new source must offer greater energy density and be nearly as safe for shipboard use. Oxygen has been proposed but deemed too dangerous to handle.
Local report recalls a disputed wicket ball with keeper denying a bat edge and batsman protesting. The umpire admits a mistake after denies the bat off ball but confirms wood and hat involvement in the confusion.
In ten years the Montana National Bison Range grew from 37 buffalo to 296. The herd now includes about 125 elk, 33 antelope, and 13 mule deer. The range is believed able to support 800 bison, 400 antelope, 500 deer, and 500 elk.
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