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Newspaper
Chilliwack Free Press
Location
Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Mar 08, 1912
Page
2
In 1811 style memoir, Billy and Ruth face hunger and social pressure after job loss. They plan to emigrate to America join the emigrant wave, sell nearly all possessions, rent a small flat, and take subway work to survive while seeking a fresh start.
A fibre exposition in Soerabaya during the Fibre Congress of the East Indies featured Dutch German and British machinery from Krupp Benisch Berand Lie bescher Lees & Co. and Oldham. Java and Philippine exhibits displayed sisal agil pineapple banana cocoanut Java cotton kapok and more. An exhibit demonstrated Java natives processing kapok and cotton from start to finish. Kapok, the silk cotton tree fibre, is used to stuff mattresses and fill life-preservers, capable of supporting 36 37 times its weight in water.
Sir John Gorst advocates a sweeping reform of Britain’s education system. He condemns a starved and stunted race shaped by elementary schooling focused on drilling rather than learning and criticizes universities tied to medieval exam driven methods. He suggests the need for overhaul reflecting present practical needs.
Dr Ingram claims he was ten thousand dollars richer when he became Bishop of London. Others echo that bishops can be impoverished by their duties. He recounts a taxi fare joke about St Peter and Lambeth Palace suggesting the saint would face modern penalties if in London.
The article describes iron bacteria that inhabit ferruginous water and extract iron from ferrous carbonate, converting it into iron hydroxide. It notes their small size, remarkable diversity, and impact on natural processes including ancient coal formation as bacteria die and settle.
The article notes a reddish brown layer forming at the bottom of water, and states it is established that the same bacteria cause trouble in municipal water mains and can even cause complete obstruction.
The article explains a method to replace fur skins with a non edible substitute to resist moths. It describes freezing the fur, sawing off the skin, and embedding a rubber reinforced block to form a fur like surface that animals cannot eat. The result mimics natural fur but remains impervious to vermin.
The article discusses experiments on air breathed in crowded rooms, noting odor and possible toxic constituents. Brown Sequard’s mouse-bottle tests suggest certain air components may be poisonous, even when basic substances are removed by sulfuric acid. Evidence is varied and critiqued, but supports that room air may contain harmful material not solely from lungs.
An Argonaut letter protests advertising damage to Sequoia Grove and Goat Island for the Portola festival branding. The piece links public publicity to local resentment of a sheriff candidate and argues for restraint in showcasing the coming exposition. It also recounts van Helmont's origin of the word gas and notes a philological debate.
The text traces competing origins of the word gas with Helmont, Adelung, and German usages dating to Montgolfier reports. It then surveys wheels from Elizabethan carriage to stage coaches and bicycle evolution, noting suspension wheels, spoke tension in modern rims, and misbeliefs about wheel spokes' compression versus tension.
A Liverpool Empire celebration marks twenty five years since the Alice in Wonderland dramatization. The article notes Carroll’s dual genius in writing and mathematics and recounts a Royal curiosity about his other works. It also describes a British inventor’s inkless printing method using electricity and treated paper.
The English jurist Justice Grantham, famed for blunt bench remarks, has died in London. His famous quips include complaints about publicans, bookmakers, farmers, and a controversial line on a husband boxing his wife, while his harsh dicta drew protests from the unariered victims.
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