16 Jul 1923
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Newspaper
Albany Despatch
Location
Albany, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jul 16, 1923
Page
1
A wide survey of fashion trends and home cooking offers Parisian styles, new coats, frocks, handbags, and evening wear details. It also covers a safe beef tea recipe, milk preservation method, and a humorous aside on uniforms for architects and other professions.
Father and son week at Drew, Robinson and Co. features CJ Boys Tweed Suits in brown and plain patterns with knickers. Extra Special Tweed Suits with two knickers. Brown or Grey Tweed Suits. Indigo Dye Cheviot Serge Suits. Cotton Tweed knickers. other boy and men’s suits and overcoats with listed prices. Includes sweaters, mufflers, trousers, oilskins, and stock for winter wear.
A science notes item describes a cover furnace device using a magnet to hold steel for tempering at peak temperature. It also mentions a rapid-sealer for writers and business documents with upright wax cylinders heated electrically and released via a pressure valve. The Brillants Institute of Heating and Ventilating Engineers reports ongoing work on efficient ventilation and new fan designs.
Professor Lemoine of Rheims uses X rays to reveal fossil remains embedded in chalk. Birds reptiles and mammals are photographed as the bone phosphates are penetrated by the rays, though bones are partly shielded.
An electric thermometer system monitors oil storage piles for temperature rise. Thermometers linked to an indicator in the engineer's office set at two hundred fifty degrees for danger. Tin receptacles house thermocouples, numbered to match engineer switches, enabling timely safety actions.
A British vessel equipped with a steam heated oil burner system completed trials achieving about 12.5 knots and oil consumption under one ton per short horsepower. The heater uses a solid casting with drilled holes for steam coils and furrowed air flow to promote complete combustion.
A major British company activates a new battery of fifty regenerative coke ovens capable of handling 19 000 tons of coal monthly. The plant includes a full by product recovery system producing tar ammonia sulphate and other substances with planned distillation of tar into creosote naptha and pitch. Monthly outputs will reach about 7000 tons of coke 400 tons of tar 120 tons of ammonia sulphate and 20 000 gallons of creosote solution.
Poultry notes discuss vaccinating chickens against chickenpox. Vic Kappler cites California University bulletins showing vaccines act mainly preventively. He describes large scale use in Pelotuma with thousands of birds, vaccines protecting during peak risk, and a hoped trial next season to confirm value.
The British Institution of Gas Engineers has devised a scheme approved by the Board of Education to certify six engineers. Two classes of certificates will be issued Ordinary certificates require three years of general public works study. Higher certificates demand two more years in engineering or gas supply study. A special diploma will accompany the higher certificate in both gas engineering and gas supply.
The article lists the next three months of sailings for the Stwlochewmur Kuela via Albany to Esperance and other ports. Key departures include Albany to Esperance on July 18 and July 25, with August and September voyages to Hopetoun Kapernice and Eucla. Freemantle to Albany sailings occur July 2, July 31, August 27, and Fremantle to Albany on July 6, August 9, August 31.
In 1922 four earthquakes struck across the United States, mainly in California and the central states, rattling residents. A former director of the Houston Symphony Orchestra, a versatile tascher and master of many instruments, died in Fresno, California, with his orchestra once delighting crowds at the Panama-Pacific Exposition.
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