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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1937
Page
17
Cambridge report notes Tyrian purple and Egyptian blue were impressive for their time but fall short of today’s standards. Chemists show Tyrian purple results from snail drops and sunlight, while Egyptian blue proves less durable than ultramarine. The piece argues modern dyes offer superior permanence and scale.
Harrisburg officials report beavers reintroduced to Pennsylvania have grown from 96 animals to more than 15 000 since their 1917 reintroduction after a 70 year absence. Trapping is now allowed and yields about 6 500 beavers annually valued above 20 000 dollars.
Smithsonian paleontologist Dr. Charles W. Gilmore announced bones of a gigantic sauropod found in western Utah may mark the last habitat where these giants faced extinction. The 60 million year old remains suggest a late Cretaceous end as mammals emerged in North America, with 70 million year old mammal beds above the dinosaur fossils. Ribs, a seven foot thigh bone, four feet of tail bone and other fragments were recovered, in beds originally found by the US Geological Survey.
In Swampscott Massachusetts Harvard School of Public Health scientists C P Yaglou and W N Witheridge report a persistent human odor lingers after occupants leave, while tobacco smoke odor worsens for up to three hours. They urge smoking rooms be small with rapid ventilation and large rooms to dilute odors.
The article describes James Smith and his frontier fighters known as the Black Boys who led armed resistance against British forces in Pennsylvania during the 1760s and 1770s. It recounts sieges at Fort Loudon and Fort Bedford, their clashes with the Black Watch, and Smith’s later roles in the Pennsylvania assembly and Revolutionary actions.
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