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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1906
Page
1
The Society of Psychical Research pursues scientific inquiries into telepathic and spiritualist claims. Observers cite cases of the dying communicating at distance and link such ideas to wireless telegraphy. Critics warn impressions may be subjective, but supporters argue the work widens knowledge.
Consul Sulis notes English commercial leaders urge forming a national trust to buy canals and inland waterways for public use. Efforts target reducing rail freight power, with propulsion debates favoring overhead trolley systems and gas motor barges undergoing trial tests. Venezuela seeks arbitration hoping for favorable court ruling.
The Pas de Calais mine explosion killed about 1,200 workers, leaving over 6,000 relatives grieving. French operators face pensions for widows and orphans, while questions arise over gas conditions and safety inspections at the site.
The British House of Commons voted 338 to 110 to pay members 1500 dollars a year, ending outside funding for many seats. The reform opens the body to men of modest means such as factory hands, miners and sailors, expanding representation beyond the aristocratic club era.
The passage notes severe famine in Japan where masses live with extreme poverty. It describes winter hardship with insufficient clothing and a starvation diet of rice flour, wild plants, and beans. Some parents have abandoned children to seek survival.
Wealthy Japanese donors support famine relief while the government employs thousands in distress as the country endures wartime resource loss. A New York crowd debates political loyalties, and international notes poke fun at monarchs, travel, and public figures. Ex governor Brady’s life arc is hailed as American success.
The Bosworth Weekly Star uses Yells Bells Knells for births marriages and deaths while another Missouri paper uses Hatch ed Matched and Dispatched. A pill ad claims Dr King’s New Life Pills offer quick relief from constipation with guaranteed strength and vigor from Leavenworth Drug Store for 2¢.
The National Education Association backed by Dr E Benjamin Andrews Nebraska University seeks to have the Department of Superintendence require phonetic spellings in all publications. Examples include Bisness Enuf Fether Mesure Plesure Red Ruf Trauf Thru Tuf Tung Yung. The piece notes parallels such as sox plougl and argues for changes in English spelling conventions.
A Missouri reader from Livonia recalls three customers cured of consumption by Dr King’s New Discovery now living in Graysville. He praises the medicine as wonderful and notes the product’s throat lung healing power with guaranteed pricing 50 cents to 1 dollar and a free trial bottle is offered by Leavenworth Drug Store.
A Kansas City man recalls a youth driven by pride and enmity with a farmer who beat and starved a dog. The boy sought quiet vengeance by infecting the farmer’s pigs with plague, later repenting as the animals died, realizing a boy’s wrath can be deadly and costly.
The article notes that starting fifteen years ago the city owned lighting plant has become the largest in the world and now reports it has paid for itself with 135000 dollars in credit. A Topeka girl’s church inquiry about the minister’s text yields a humorous misquote. The minister’s theme allegedly centers on fear not and sending a comforter as central idea. Visit Keating for hardware at 47.
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