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Leavenworth Echo

Location

Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America

Date

Sep 11, 1914

Page

14

Sportsmen's Paradise Draws Crowds to Eastern Washington

The upper valley streams offer abundant fishing and hunting in eastern Washington with Tumwater canyon Icicle river Wenatchee lake Ingalls creek Peshastin Nason creek cited as prime regions. Leavenworth hosts vast tourist footfalls for fishing hunting and photography as publicity spreads to the northwest.

Washington Cascade Ranges Tumwater Canyon Icicle River Wenatchee Lake Ingalls Creek Peshastin Creek Nason Creek Cascades Twin Lakes White River Icicle Creek Wenatchee River

Businessman builds on strict common sense lines

Detroit Free Press quotes a businessman who explains his hiring rule. He will not hire a man from New York unless he also knows something. The remark highlights practical standards over location-based assumptions.

New York Detroit Free Press

Peshastin Lumber Company Sees Rapid Growth in Valley box trade

The Peshastin Lumber company of Blewett reports four years of rising output as demand for standard fruit boxes drives expansion. Output now exceeds 10 000 boxes daily with sawmill capacity at 60 000 feet daily and a 4 500 dollar Holt Caterpillar plus 2 500 in trucks. The firm employs about 100, pays around 8000 dollars monthly in wages, and operates a successful general merchandise store alongside its box plant.

Peshastin Lumber Company Holt Columbia Pateros Washington Entiat Peshastin Station Great Northern Peshastin Valley Upper J. C. Biles J. R. Harper W. D. Cartwright Cartwright

Food of the Chickadee Diet Described

The chickadee diet consists of seven parts insects to three parts vegetable matter. Moths and caterpillars top its prey list, comprising about one third of the diet, with beetles ants wasps bugs grasshoppers and spiders forming the remainder. Plant foods include seeds mainly from pine poison ivy and weeds.

Sky Effects in a Painter's Gloom

An artist laments altered scenery while an old farmer longs for a familiar cloud from last year. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer quotes both voices expressing disappointment and nostalgia about visual changes.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Work That Blinds Ends Work for Venetian Glassmakers

Many workers in Venetian glass factories lose their sight after forty. Excessive heat and glare from glass furnaces cause progressive blindness leading to early departure from the trade.

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