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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1919
Page
4
A compact collection of aphorisms on modesty dreams debt memory and gossip. The author jabs at flirts fools and public life with wry wit and sharp contrasts. Heavy use of imagery like elephants and bolsheviks ties humor to social observations.
A lighthearted exchange about chairs at papa's contrasts with a disturbance case. Uncle Rasmus, accused of disturbing the peace, is described by Officer Mort Randolph for running along Mill River road at 1:30 am, waving arms and shouting. The judge questions the unbecoming conduct, and Rasmus replies that it is religion, prompting the Holy Roller remark.
A collage of humor from the Dallas News and Scranton lecture remarks features a talkative shopwoman at a hosier, a detective's bead on every clue, a French recollection of soldiers and a cootie tale told by Col. Orrin H. de Wolfe. The fragments showcase light anecdotes and wartime wit.
Remington Underwood and L C Smith typewriter ribbons are offered for sale at The Echo office with a brief notice dated July 26th.
Amid a government push to reduce the cost of living, meat prices fall with live hogs at 14.50 per hundred pounds and cattle around 16.75 per hundred. Unsold hogs total eighteen thousand in Chicago pens and nearly one thousand cars head to yards as buyers shrink. Crop acreage for the year reaches 347,796,000 acres, up over 12,000,000 from 1918.
United States Grain Corporation bought 450000 pounds of flour on August 14 at reported prices from 9.53 to 10.40 dollars per hundredweight.
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