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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1906
Page
2
The Leavenworth Echo notes a Republican gain in sheriff and loss in auditor amid bitter county races. Wenatchee Republicans pressed for straight ticket votes and deny credit for county outcomes as official returns await.
A reader laments an artistically printed Wenatchee panorama credited to Senator Arthur Wenn and The Republic Press. The piece critiques the false claim of local origin and questions the plausibility of such high quality printing in a small town.
Election returns show 316 registered in the precinct and 215 votes cast amid rain and bad roads. Judge King led county races with 167 votes while most Republican nominees won. two constitutional amendments failed by a wide margin.
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A fifty year old quarterly report from Waterford Kansas mentions harvests, cattle, health, religious awakenings, and a birth of twins. The missive signed by Abagail Jenkins notes harsh crops, hay shortages, illness, and requests kindness to Mrs Bachasan while sending regards and signing Troply.
A Kansas farmer’s wife resolves household woes herself after years of asking. She opens a stubborn drawer with a hairpin, fixes a slipping oven hinge, paints a crayon portrait, and even trains Willie the assis with a hairbrush. The farmer can only sigh.
A garbled excerpt blends a jokey marriage exchange about parrot cat and stove with a social note on Polish children resisting German schooling. The fragment references language coercion, regional schooling tensions, and wartime style rhetoric, mentioning Palestinian and other varied strands, but the text is largely unreadable.
The piece argues a long term move toward cleaner public affairs and moral accountability. It locates rising public conscience in practical politics and cites tenement housing in Chicago and New York as a moral crisis. It notes evasion, corruption, and delays by owners, and calls for stronger health and housing reforms to curb epidemics.
The article discusses Hawaii’s sugar industry declining as Chinese laborers face bans and planters seek new workers. It notes appeals for Chinese labor despite resistance and warns of economic consequences for American wealth. It contrasts crop uncertainties with Irish potato failures and a cautionary tale of financial fraud.
The article discusses anti American sentiment abroad and domestic financial fears. It mentions grocers posing as policemen, banks and insurers in flux, and calls out Russian history and American wealth figures like Astor as symbols in a broader panic. It highlights distrust of foreign citizens and the fragility of banking and insurance amid sensational headlines.
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