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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1921
Page
3
A country editor champions a nationwide campaign for Subscribe for Your Home Town Paper Week set for November 7 to 12. He argues country papers unify communities and deserve support. readers should subscribe during the week to help sustain local news and civic life.
Sioux City Argus Leader proclaims the second week in November as Home Town Paper Week. It urges readers to show gratitude to newspaper staff for sustaining local reporting amid rising costs and difficult times.
The 1921 fur bearing laws show nearly half the states enacting measures to safeguard peltries amid a 25 to 50 percent drop in supply over a decade. The U S Department of Agriculture notes beaver and otter restrictions in several states and shorter open seasons in others, with some states protecting dens and enhancing testing standards from the American Society for Testing and Materials.
A collection of farm notes and advice covers spring planting, poultry breeding, kitchen organization, holiday baking, farm layout, and efficiency. Topics include cow testing records, roosters in breeding, trap nests, winter storage, fair lessons on quality, school lunches, beekeeping, newspapers in communities, and Subscribe for your home town paper week.
Washington State College animal husbandry prepares to send seven fat cattle and nine sheep to the Western Royal Livestock Show in Spokane and the Pacific International in Portland. The herd has earned 47 champions and 89 first prizes in two years, with notable grand champions at past fairs.
The Bureau of Public Roads and state highway departments have advanced a national system for testing highway materials. department bulletin 949 publishes 98 pages with 62 tests and tentative tests for nonbituminous and bituminous materials soils and related substances.
Trinitrotolouros, once a wartime explosive, is reported by the Bureau of Public Roads to be adapted for peacetime road construction. The program cites efficiency and broad adoption across states as it shifts from military to civil use.
War surplus materials released to the states for road work are fueling widespread use of TNT and other blasting agents. By mid September the states had received about 19.6 million pounds of TNT along with 1.8 million pounds of blasting powder and 2.9 million pounds of hand grenade powder. Additional items include dynamite, picric acid, detonators, exploders, blasting caps, fuse, detonating cord and tampers.
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