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Newspaper
Cumberland Islander
Location
Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jul 02, 1910
Page
2
An observer recounts sneaking up on a ruffed grouse’s drum display in a birch and pine grove. He describes the log, the camera setup, the stupefying drum roars, and the mystery of how the booming sound is produced, noting the bird’s erect stance and the elusive trigger of the call.
Travelogue of encounters with umbrella ants garden ants and army ants in Paramaribo and Dutch Guiana. Vivid scenes of ant behavior their leaves loads and nests and the author’s humorous commentary on tropical housekeeping and ant driven cleanups.
The canoe shaped Canada’s development by enabling war parties, exploration, and travel across vast waterways. Indigenous canoes carried voyagers to remote wilderness, connecting distant regions and laying groundwork for later express routes and freight transport.
The article traces the evolution of Canoe making from birch bark canoes used by Indigenous peoples to the modern, sea worthy craft produced in Peterborough Ontario. It describes materials, grading, and specific canoe types including Rib and Batten, Music Batten, Strip Canoes, Canvas Covered canoes, and Cedar Rib models, plus the factory process from timber sourcing to finishing. It also notes the rise of the pearl button industry in the United States sourced from Mississippi shells.
The article traces the rise of the button and buttonhole in Elizabethan dress. It notes early needlework origins, wooden mould improvements, a 1689 brass button introduction by a Birmingham merchant, and a 200 year evolution in sewing cloth to covered buttons. It mentions a Danish two part button design that clasped components together with fabric in between.
The U S Department of Agriculture studies rough lumber use showing over five eighths of output becomes raw material for other products Two thirds of timber is wasted before reaching consumers with most losses at sawmills Massachusetts Maryland North Carolina and Wisconsin data indicate thirty six percent of output remains as rough timber while sixty four percent is further manufactured nationwide totals: about thirteen billion feet used rough and twenty three half billion feet processed into other forms This marks the first detailed figures on the subject The study also seeks what wood products are made from wood their sources costs and related data for timber growers and lumber traders
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