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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1917
Page
4
A promotional paragraph urges readers to secure insurance for family safety and financial protection, warning that going without coverage is reckless and uneconomical and inviting readers to order insurance services.
Maj. W. A. Starrett, an architect and chairman of the emergency construction committee, built 16 cantonments in three months to house the National Army draftees. Each city accommodated 40,000 people with complete light, heat, ventilation and sewerage systems, a record in American effort during wartime.
A Vergeze land owner learns his son, a staff captain, wrote of a wife and 16 year old boy found among the battalion of unmounted chasseurs. They had secretly joined trenches with the men for five months, and the battalion kept the secret while under fire together. The letter notes a family served side by side in the same unit.
Nashville Tennessee private Lincoln Burk of the First Tennessee infantry deserts twice, is captured and returned, received a light guardhouse sentence, and again deserts while carrying his uniform gun and ammo before signaling surrender with a white flag amid hunger.
A condensed list from the Independent exposes ten tactics used by pro Kaiser and antiwar propagandists to undermine US efforts. The rules urge attacks on democracy, distrust of allies, embargo support, fear of dictatorship, rumors of betrayal, conscription resistance, pessimism on victory, entangling alliances paranoia, and quickly changing subjects when pressed.
Mrs Russell Sage marked her eighty ninth birthday in a subdued observance. Despite advanced age and feebleness, her health remains as good as can be expected for her years.
Denver program by National League for Women's Service opens classes for wives of enlisted soldiers. Courses include Morse telegraphy wireless typing stenography and general office work with an employment bureau to place graduates in suitable positions.
In Chestnut Montana a daughter of John Roslyn was extracting lead from a refillable metal pencil when it exploded narrowly avoiding injury. Federal agents were called suspecting the pencil as a new German weapon distributed by peddlers.
In Chelan County Washington sheriff Bert McManus will conduct a public auction on November 17 1917 at 10 o clock A M at the Wenatchee Court House front door to settle the judgment of Sarah Davis against Frederick Leonard Brender Emma Brender and related claimants. The property listed includes N half of SE quarter section 31 township 26 N range 18 E W M and portions of sections 24 and 31 with lots 5 8 11 and NW quarter of SE quarter. The sale follows an October 8 1917 court order and a $5783 judgment with 9 percent interest plus $500 attorney fees and costs.
Edna Anna and Eleanor Williams attempted to live on five dollars weekly in Brooklyn New York after moving from their late parents home in North Carolina. Eleanor earned seven dollars a week while Edna was ill and Anna stayed to care for her. Two sisters collapsed from starvation prompting authorities to take notice.
Willy Michaelis, youngest son of the new German chancellor, is employed as a farm laborer on a Langmell farm near Gruenberg in Silesia. A Berlin high school student, he volunteered for harvest duty in July and works from four in the morning until eight in the evening, then plans to return to school after harvest.
Seattle American Nitrogen Products Co outlines plans to harness the Sauk River near Darrington for a vast nitrogen production facility. The project centers on a major plant intended to use river power and expand industrial activity in the region.
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