Tacoma and Puget Sound Industrial Expansion Highlights
Tacoma plans a new 1000000 foot mill to meet demand for shipbuilding timbers while a Cascade Paper Co mill is underway at 100000 cost. Todd Ship Co speeds up on several wooden ships for France with three 24 hour shifts. Granite Falls seeks a new site after material shortage. Port Angeles gains a cooperative creamery with 84 patrons. Camp Lewis library construction starts in Tacoma. Seattle outlines a 40000 Nippon hospital project amid labor scarcity as fisheries plan to ship 10000000 salmon to Fraser River and Puget Sound. Tacoma advances a 125000 flour mill project.
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Tacoma
St. Paul & Tacoma Lummber Company
Cascade Paper Company
Todd Ship Company
Granite Falls
Seattle
Nippon Hospital
Washington Fisheries Bureau
Afognak
Alaska
Fraser River
British Columbia
Puget Sound
Leavenworth Echo Advertising and Subscription Policy
The Leavenworth Echo notes weekly Friday publication and a subscription rate of 1.50 per year in advance. Communications go to The Leavenworth Echo. Special notices for condolence cards requests and paid fundraising promotions must use regular advertising rates. free space is reserved for purely charitable community welfare notices. Back issues and ck numbers are available at a price of 0.50 each.
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Leavenworth Echo
Echo
Encouraging War Front Reports Across Europe and Home Front
Reports from the French Italian fronts praise Allied gains and prisoner captures. Reinforcements bolster the Belgian French sector while Russian chaos and Bolshevik ties to Germany threaten stability. Tuberculosis advances are met with a new treatment hope and a projected broader American war effort.
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Germany
Cusacks
Hungary
Austria
England
France
Church Services Include Multiple Denominations
Local notices present schedule details for Methodist Lutheran Catholic and Peshastin churches. Methodist lists Sunday school 10 am preaching 11 am Epworth League 6 30 pm and prayer 7 30 pm Thursday. Lutheran shows 10 45 am service 9 45 am Sunday school 7 30 pm evening. Catholic notes mass 10 am and 7 30 pm devotions catechism Saturday 2 pm. Peshastin church lists Sunday school 10 am preaching 11 am class 9 30 am Epworth League and preaching 7 pm.
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Epworth League
F. L. Moore
Haase
Peshastin
A. H. Morton
Leavenworth State Bank Report Of Financial Condition 1917
Official publication reports the Leavenworth State Bank in Leavenworth Washington showing resources total 354 211 13 with loans 188 071 39 overdrafts 58 838 bonds 23 417 13 and real estate assets 6 663 58 plus reserve and checks 77 303 06. Liabilities include capital 25 000 00 surplus 5 000 00 undivided profits 6 872 92 and deposits 315 348 18 certified checks 1 490 03. Notary public Louis J Nelson certifies on November 27 1917 with directors L F Bullis and Robt Field. Governor Ernest Lister urges ship production to aid the war effort and spring labor conditions. Subscribe for the Echo today.
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Louis J. Nelson
State of Washington
Leavenworth
Medical knowledge for lay readers gains at Hearst Magazine
A discussion on making medical science accessible to the public argues that doctors should inform laypeople about diseases. It contrasts home dangers with battlefield losses, urging greater awareness of pneumonia and tuberculosis and noting the public’s partial awakening to their seriousness.
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Hearst’s
Henry Smith Williams
Baeilli
Europe
France
Williams
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Post Office of
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Deed H. and
Julian I. Mayor
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Washington Newspaper Association
Church Services
Methodist Church
Lutheran Church
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Trust
L. F. Bullis
Robt
B. Field
Ernest Lister
Washington
the Mutual
Mutual Merc. Co
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