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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1917
Page
3
A concise column offering practical tips for car owners as queries and replies address maintenance, safety, and operation. It covers common vehicle issues, timely repairs, and cost-saving methods to keep autos reliable and efficient.
A long reader letter column covers tire storage effects on wear, hot air intake, automatic versus manual spark control, cone clutch lubrication, tire wear symmetry, magnet recharging, wheel sizing, fuel delivery to rotary motors, English versus American road law, horsepower formulas, and fixed versus automatic spark advances with a note that the discussion continues next week.
Liverpool report on a conference of English girls' school teachers defining the ideal woman. The forty year old wife and mother of five is described as capable, organized, cultured, politically aware, religious, athletic, multilingual, and proficient in home management, finance, and crafts.
In New York a widow Mrs. Rosa de Rosa faced a fine for keeping son Gennaro home from school. The 15-year-old toiled 20 acres on her Westchester home, and Magistrate Appleton suspended the sentence calling him a patriotic benefit to the community.
Ten year old Michael Ravolefe of East Hartford’s Second North school is to receive a medal from the Connecticut Humane Society for rescuing a robin entangled by a string. He climbed an elm about seventy five to eighty feet high and cut the string from the bird’s leg, freeing it after a tense effort on swaying branches.
London reports a conference of European neutral country journalists heard that republican doctrine is gaining favor in Spain Greece and Sweden as the war nears its end. The speaker cited shifts after the Russian Revolution and noted broad republican sentiment in the three nations.
In Topeka Kansas an elderly Pawnee county farmer, L. Palmer age sixty two, sought enlistment despite being over thirty five. Palmer, who owns 700 acres, wanted to serve as telegraph operator draftsman or mechanic and said he had fifteen years of telegraph experience.
Lieutenant General Jan Smuts, relieved from command in German East Africa, received the freedom of the city of London. In an address he praised the United States for joining the struggle to defend universal liberty and spoke of the advancing end of the war. He is expected to be offered a high military command and likely to accept.
Mrs. Laura Ella Ruddick of Columbus acts as her own attorney in a case with brothers Marcus Hollowell and Hayes E Hollowell as defendants. She filed a multi page motion for a new trial without counsel. She was ordered jailed for contempt of court by Judge John W Donaker.
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