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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1918
Page
2
The Echo announces guidelines for notices requests for entertainments and business ads. Free use is given to moral community welfare movements. paid ads apply to admissions and fundraisers. Back copies cost 25 cents each except current month editions.
The piece praises newspapers for driving the Red Cross drive by constant coverage. It claims daily papers kept the cause in readers minds for a month and pressured the broad audience to contribute. It argues persistent advertising showed what united effort can achieve.
The Echo endorses a humorous stand on your head day to rest tired feet. It suggests April 1 1919 as Stand on Your Head Day, with light jabs at congressional sanction and female objections, urging broad public participation.
McAdoo states a 25 percent rail toll increase is needed to cover an annual 300 million wage rise for employees and rising equipment costs. The move would lift living costs as wages for bakers, butchers, and merchants must rise to cover higher fright and product prices. Wheat and flour remain legally fixed and inelastic amid substitution pressures.
The piece argues for universal wage and price fixing to curb rising living costs and prevent cascading demands for higher pay and rail rates. It notes risks of Bolshevikism, questions government angles, and envisions fixing a wage scale for all occupations and then pricing all products of labor.
Wenatchee area residents push to complete about 8000 feet of roadbed two underground railroad crossings and four small bridges to link the Scenic Highway with the old switchback. Estimated cost 26500 dollars, possibly up to 30000, falls on Chelan District 3 with worries it should be county funded or shared by Districts 1 and 2. Supporters seek state and federal help to make it a state highway, potentially shortening travel through Tumwater canyon by about fifteen miles.
The Chelan County debate centers on sharing a $30,000 cost to complete the Scenic Highway. District 1 Wenatchee holds most tax wealth while District 3 bears heavy impact. Advocates urge a countywide funding agreement to finish the national military highway through Tumwater canyon benefiting all districts.
Germany states that Allied naval plans against Zeebrugge and Ostend were foiled, but questions what else Germany might have claimed given the circumstances and expectations.
FOR SALE FOR RENT A furnished house Inquire of W F Bickle May 31. FOUR fresh cows for sale M O Logan May 31. Because I am leaving Leavenworth July 1 I want to dispose of my home on the north side and two good lots in east Leavenworth together with my household goods including a piano Clarence A Campbell May 31.
For sale items include 3 iron beds with springs and new mattresses, 1 iron baby crib with mattress, and 1 dresser. Reasonable prices. Call 131. May 17tf.
For sale a medium weight farm team described as gentle and sound. Contact Geo Hathaway or Echo office for particulars. May 31 June 7 and 14.pd LANDSEEKERS Governor Stevens ranch in Thurston county offers level soil, water, wood, and easy clearing. Camp Lewis market nearby. price 75 per acre with terms. A H Reid & Co Seattle.
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