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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1915
Page
4
London reports survivor Robert C. Wright recounts the Lusitania disaster. He describes a calm deck, a fatal rapid lurch, abandoning ship, and swimming for hours before a torpedo boat rescued him. He confirms Elbert Hubbard and his wife perished.
Chicago physicians Dr. Joseph Miller and W P Woley urged smokers to choose paneteras and smoke quickly to avoid arterial spasms. They warned slower smoking lets more nicotine through and that cigars burn hotter than cigarettes. A separate note tells of John Granger receiving Belgian pigeons sent from Chicago and returning them by express after two escaped.
New York Thomas A Edison is named the American who has done most to benefit mankind and receives the Civic Forum medal of honor for distinguished public service. The award follows last year’s honor to Colonel George W Goethals for Panama work. Dr Nicholas Murray Butler presided with speakers including Guglielmo Marconi Dr Charles Steinmetz and Charles A Coffin. Verey Mackaye read a poem for the occasion.
Five Eugene women students and faculty members completed a sixty mile Oregon coast hike carrying twenty pound packs. They report no harassment as they found shelter each night and proved a solo woman can traverse the state with no molestation. The hikers named are Frieda Goldsmith Harriet Thompson Bertha Stewart Mary Perkins and Myrrha Hepburn, four of them University of Oregon faculty.
Washington officials report a Hawaii sugar company uses arsenic spray to kill weeds instead of hoeing. Labor savings of 15 to 30 dollars per acre annually are cited, with trials extending to corn in Louisiana to test viability in similar tropical and rainy conditions.
An advertisement touts Sloan's Liniment for quick relief from rheumatism and muscle pain. It claims rapid pain reduction with surface application and a 25 cent bottle. A joke follows about a bank cashier portrayed as a teller of funds going far, ending with a punchline about detectives and South America.
Edwin M. Dahlberg a Beloit College senior from Cherry Valley Illinois earns much of his tuition by trapping muskrats along the Rock River above Beloit He starts at 5 each morning in a canoe drifts downstream skins catches on the return and cures pelts on dorm rafters sometimes in the hundreds.
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