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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1916
Page
4
A humorous verse tale features Balaam the highbrow and a stubborn jackass in a dialogic fable. The talky allegory shifts between political satire and rustic humor as Balaam lassos the animal through a perilous journey.
The Olympia Recorder reports that a Hughes win could bring a new shingle mill in an Oregon town employing fifty men, while a Wilson win would let the option on the timbered land lapse. The piece suggests many ventures await the wind of the election to decide their fate.
Illinois moves to a $3.5 million penitentiary near Joliet featuring eight circular outside-cell houses, each 150 feet across and housing 250 inmates. Central dining hall, glass roofs, ventilated air, and an observation tower guard post through linked tunnels to the administration.
Mil ton Simmons of Kokomo Indiana a real estate dealer told how a 60 foot plunge during the Iroquois fire in Chicago caused memory loss. After two months in hospital he recovered and later married in Tipton Indiana before moving to Kokomo and resuming business.
Charles E. Hughes argues that current prosperity is wartime fantasy and that postwar Europe will restructure economies. He predicts millions of soldiers returning to work and belligerent nations redirecting energies to production.
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