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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1914
Page
6
For sale forty acres southeast quarter of northeast quarter section 17 township 26 range 17 half mile from Winton on a county road railroad cuts off a few acres nearly all tillable good buy with low price and terms from Deed H Mayor Leavenworth Washington.
Advertises multiple land parcels for sale near Leavenworth Washington with irrigation water and timber, including 28 acres 10 tillable 8 cultivated 1500 price and 40 acres 6 cultivation 1% bearing orchard 2000, 42 acres 8 cultivation 4 in orchard 2500, plus 10 acre tract near Merritt and 35 acres near town. Echo, Leavenworth, Wash. for details.
President Louis Hill of the Great Northern Railway names Chelan as the spike site for the Wenatchee Oroville extension over the Columbia river. Officials will attend the milestone event, date to be set. A talent minstrel show at Scenic Theatre next month, directed by F S Jacobsen, will raise funds for the public library.
A Washington warning highlights the difficulty of repealing voter written laws under the initiative and referendum system. It notes the extra election costs and potential turmoil if measures fail, urging careful study before approving such changes. The excerpt then transitions to a Cen tury Magazine piece by Henri Fabre discussing glowworms and their anesthetic habits.
Peshastin closes Friday with a community picnic and reports of a party visiting the area for fishing and camping on Peshastin creek. The school board renews duties with Professor and Mrs. Bradley, while staff reassignments include Ethel Chapman leaving for Wenatchee and Clair McCoy heading to Spokane.
The Peshastin Sunday school class the Sunshine Seekers organized a fundraiser to help a girl needing surgical and medical care. They planned an auction sale after two weeks of fundraising and successfully completed it last Friday night. Donors from Leavenworth Cashmere and Wenatchee contributed, and Mrs F A Blacker of Everett is visiting the Will family.
In Kellogg's Memoirs of an American Prima Donna Christine Nilsson insists on someone holding her thumbs before performances. She believed the ancient charm would bring luck, a reversal of the common practice of holding thumbs for others.
The article describes sacred deer revered in Japan, kept in compounds and protected by strict laws under the shogun. It notes deer roam shrine grounds, beg for food, and sometimes interact with people. Annually tamers capture some deer to horned ritual. horns are cut and spectators watch as horns are awarded by lottery for a fee.
A Brazilian promoter and an American prospector meet in a new Amazon city. The native boasts a grand opera house on the riverbank. The American replies that the site would be ideal for a sawmill, highlighting divergent regional aims.
A Yale graduate and long time faculty member suggested in exasperation that most Yale students should be taxed thousands yearly for the privilege, while a small minority would be paid to contribute themselves to the undergrad community. The remark, though exaggerated, carried a kernel of truth per Yale alumni Weekly.
A magazine cites the Fields brothers David Dudley Meld Henry M Field Cyril W Field and Stephen J Field as a rare example of four siblings achieving prominence. It notes that such multi sibling fame is unusual and places the Fields among a select lineage alongside the Pitts Adamses Van Burens Beechers.
The piece recounts a chemist who tames faulty glue by adding a color-changing post manufacture test. Salesmen apply a chemical to suspect glue to prove if it is their product or a rival’s. The Lake Chelan News reports a dispute over Lake Chelan fishing season dates with authorities giving conflicting interpretations and a delay pending a higher opinion.
The Chicago News reports on dried pressed rat meat in China sold by butchers and notes Dr. Arthur Stradling’s claim that rats can be wholesome when properly prepared. He recalls barn fed rats and describes pale dry flesh. Admiral Beaufort and other explorers praise rat meat as a wholesome Arctic subsistence.
A charity worker recalls an east side housewife remarking on frugality. Her husband quips about the boss’s wife being economical because she has ample resources, illustrating humor in budgeting. The exchange underscores social contrasts in thrift.
Brown insisted on returning the twenty dollar parrot he had bought a few days before. He claimed the creature stuttered, explaining the dealer, Why what is the matter with it. The quip drew laughter in this lighthearted anecdote.
An Augusta Chronicle item notes a New York orator’s remark about regional reactions to labeling someone a liar. He claims in the south a liar would be shot, in the west knocked down, but in the east one would be offered a bet to prove it.
A dialogue features a mother scolding Willie for candy and a shop clerk confirming a pamphlet titled How to Call Down the Janitor. The exchange appears in the Chicago News with playful mischief and curiosity about assorted handbills.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes a philosophic friend remarks that everyone carries private sorrow and even the fattest and jolliest person has a skeleton in their midst. The line suggests universal hidden burdens.
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