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T31-1
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- 1935-10 (Creation)
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In the fall of 1935 Norman Lang, left, and Fred E. Lockwood, right, found new uses for the cedar shavings that were rapidly accumulating in their shingle mill at 2421 Bay St. The two men, eager to escape the unemployment of the Depression, had opened their own small shingle factory. They soon found that they were manufacturing almost as many shavings as shingles. The entrepreneurs installed a bailing machine which packs the shavings into 100 lb. bales and they marketed them as a substitute for bedding straw. Tacoma's poultry population was soon much happier and drier, as the cedar kept out insects, was softer and attracted less moisture. The two men were soon so busy filling orders for the shavings that they didn't have time to paint a sign for their new business. (T. Times 10/23/1935, pg. 2)
Agricultural machinery & implements--1930-1940; Lang, Norman; Lockwood, Fred E.;