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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1910
Page
6
The Epworth League invites all to a Sunday evening service at 7 30 at the M E church Sept 4 led by Miss Claire Keesey with J O Hawk pastor at Leavenworth. Rev Nichols will preach in the morning and youth will observe tally day in the evening.
Regular services planned for next Sabbath morning and evening with a musical concert Friday evening September 9 proceeds to piano fund. Silver offering requested. Pastor W V Davis extends a cordial invitation to all and asks you to bring friends.
Miss Charlotte M. Castle died last week aged 24 as a victim of the great white plague. The remains were shipped to Ruthven Iowa for interment. She was a daughter of Mrs A Franklin who has resided in Leavenworth for several years. The note about the Start of an Author recounts Stevenson era and Rider Haggard’s rise with King Solomon's Mines after Treasure Island.
A phrenologist dining at a hotel claimed to judge the character of each person present. An Irishman offered a question, saying if truthfully answered he would believe in phrenology forever. The expert asked him to proceed and the Irishman asked if he is married or single.
A Boston Transcript item jokes about a wife with a sweet voice and a humorous claim that she earns $1 200 a year for spilling part of it in a church choir. The remark playfully treats the choir misstep as a paid role.
Dialogue excerpt shows a husband and wife debating manners and pleasantness as they discuss whether handsome men are proverbially disagreeable, highlighting a light domestic humor tone.
An account from Bookman recalls Victor Hugo's magnetic presence in Paris culture. Adulating guests debated renaming streets and even the city after him, while Hugo, unshaken, mused that such honors would ultimately come.
The ovarinas, likely descendants of Portugal’s original inhabitants, are women from Murtosa Estarreja near Oporto who sell fish door to door. They travel barefoot with tall baskets, shouting to buyers and even reaching sixth floors. They sell small portions at 12 to 15 cents per pound, with at least 2000 workers in Lisbon.
A stutterer entered a restaurant and faced quick taunts from acquaintances. He answered with a sung order, then challenged the taunter to pay, revealing his talent as a first rate singer.
A waiter recalls the boss’s glare at a patron who padded a fifty cent dinner bill and then asked for nearby places serving a decent meal for the same price. The exchange is captured from a New York Press glimpse into wartime dining hardship.
A fragment from the Cleveland Leader shows a speaker objecting to a nightly henu and a promise of better food as a man is tackled by the speaker’s offerings. The odd phrasing hints at a humorous or satirical domestic scene in a newspaper column.
The note contrasts Lustige Blatter mockery about a splendid tomb with Epictetus asserting philosophy rests on sustain and abstain.
Department of the Interior U S Land Office at Waterville Washington issues notice that Edgar Booth of Leavenworth Washington, who filed Homestead Entry No 11744 on April 1 1908 for eswh section 1s township 24 n range ise Williamette Meridian, will submit final commutation proof before R S Ludington U S Commissioner at Wenatchee Washington on September 11 1910. Witnesses: J B Hathaway Sr M A Gohlman George Ouren and Dick Ryan all of Leavenworth Washington. W F Haynes Register. Aug 1–Sept 2
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