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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1918
Page
2
Friday news note highlights labor loyalty calls sea yard capacity and road and mill projects across cities including Molsons grain elevator expansion Seattle Olympia Montesano and Vancouver. It reports shipyard labor arrests plant openings bank building and new bridges plus a push for patriotic public service.
The government vows to crack down on merchants who raise prices unfairly amid stock conditions. It condemns profiteering as unpatriotic and warns that offenders will face prosecution and public shame.
The Echo urges citizens to buy Liberty Bonds or war savings stamps to have their names printed on the Honor Roll. It argues support for the government is mandatory or risk ostracism, and offers corrections if names are missing.
Aberdeen plans a $50,000 house building corporation and a $30,000 apartment house. Watcom county contracts 17 miles of concrete roads. Kelso Clark and Robbs rebuild sawmill to cut 40,000 daily. Spokane starts a $250,000 children's home. Seattle bids $2,381,000 for a Skagit river power plant. Pleasant Valley to build a 75 foot bridge over Salmon creek. Chehalis aims a bridge over the Cowlitz at Riffe. Washington cuts spruce timber by 10,000,000 feet monthly for airplanes from a 60,000,000 feet supply. Centralia rebuilds Masonic hall 60 by 100 feet. Spokane receives a 100 by 150 sheet metal ware house.
The sugar beet industry demands 67 factories and $100 million in the 10 Pacific and Mountain States, seen by the Secretary of Agriculture as key to agricultural advancement. California to New Mexico, including Utah and Washington, may become the sugar bowl, with beets yielding higher per acre profits and aiding soil fertility as a rotation crop.
April 6 through 13 is designated as the Honor Period in the Third Liberty Loan. Buyers during that week receive the Honor insignia, a George Washington coat of arms with a dove, to display in homes or businesses, in addition to the national Honor Flag awarded for meeting quotas.
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