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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1905
Page
4
A Leavenworth notice seeks candidates for a steam laundry manager and a local dentist among other posts. It notes a growing population and planned mill work, with large weekly laundry shipments to Spokane and Wenatchee. It also discusses Canada's Indian population and a cheeky jab at fashionable worries about royalitis following Princess Victoria's surgery.
The Pacific Monthly will publish a 1905 series including Portland Seattle Southern California San Francisco and the Lewis and Clark Exposition souvenir issue plus sixDr Wolf von Schierbrand essays on The Coming Supremacy of the Pacific. Subscriptions run $1 yearly, or $1.50 when bundled with The Echo for both publications.
The Stage Ranch in the Peshastin valley two miles from the post office is offered for sale. It can be cut up to suit purchasers and is listed by Wim Stege of Peshastin Washington.
A correspondent from Poland to a London journal argues that Polish unrest is driven by social revolutionaries, not national demonstrations. Poles fear Prussia more than Russia and hope for a reforming Russian government aligned with Polish conservatives. The bachelor governor jokes about taxing bachelorhood to spur marriages.
Classified notice offers land parcels for sale with easy terms down and ongoing balance payments. Inquiries directed to City Drug Store for details.
The piece reflects on the shifting taste from pure romance to realism and history in fiction, noting how readers seek life like in biographies and historical portraits. It discusses the appeal of vivid lifelike characters and the challenge of critiquing modern fiction. It also covers concerns about modern parenting and the future burden on children, using two wealthy New York orphans as a contrast.
The fortieth anniversary of Appomattotox notes twenty six Confederate veterans in Congress. Seven former Confederate states are represented in both houses, with ten of eleven senators having fought for the Confederacy. A German professor weighs in on remaining young by heart health and measured living.
The United States last year imported its largest valued vegetables as potatoes and preserved goods. Foreign preserved vegetables were luxury brands not produced domestically to meet demand. The article argues America should grow enough potatoes for home use and match the quality of the best foreign products.
A writer who traveled with English forces in Tibet notes game birds were easily approached until the first shot. Birds, never shot by natives, migrate annually across the Himalayas from India and recall gun danger from memory. English gunfire made birds avoid camps and march routes.
The piece contrasts the open accessibility of Horace Greeley at the New York Tribune with the guarded sanctuaries of modern editors. It notes Whitelaw Reid guarding the sanctuary as managing editor and James Gordon Bennett and his son keeping the Herald building inaccessible from cellar to top loft.
The Railroad Gazette reports only 44 000 miles of the roughly 200 000 total rail miles use block signals with most installed for fog or passenger trains. Last year 5 937 miles received signals, while budgets plan 3 778 miles this year amid calls for safer collision protection. An Irish joke about Field Marshal Oyama and General Sweeney folds into the piece with a quip about Waterloo.
The last edition of the dictionary contains 10 005 names giving one writer for every 8 000 people including the illiterate. Job printing at Echo office.
Reports a Pekio Indiana resident, W M Smithart, cured of consumption by De King’s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds. He claims a decade of use proves it a lung cure. City Drug Store guarantee 50c and 1.00 bottles, trial bottle free. Echo office offers twenty four card score packages for 35c.
In Leavenworth Washington Justice Court Olaf Thorason is summoned to answer a claim filed by Siverly and Bullock for 69.60 dollars for merchandise and borrowed money. The hearing is set for May 12 1905 at ten in the forenoon.
The old building serves for religious services during the new church build. Catholics invite all to attend on the fourth Sunday monthly with mass at 7 30 a m Sunday school at 3 p m vesper 130 p m and low mass the following Monday Father H Colin pastor.
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