Clinical thermometers and their accuracy in daily use
The article explains how common clinical thermometers can give erroneous readings due to manufacture induced shrinkage gas in the capillary and over constriction of the mercury column. It cites the National Physical Laboratory findings that 28 percent of nine thousand thermometers were unreliable and notes Canada’s Federal testing program for government, hospital, and public use devices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dse
National Physical Laboratory
England
Canada
Physical Testing Laboratory
Topographical Survey
Department of the Interior
Ottawa
Puzzle Corner Hidden Mountains in Every Sentence
A set of wordplay sentences hides mountain names. It includes phrases about property near the shore on Friar Street, a book Eric lost in a brook, a woman washing clothes, and a tortoise race around a circular track. Readers search for mountain words within the text and solve related clues about removing the letter I and other wordplay tasks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friar St
Eli
Fred
Eric
Idaho
App
Puzzle clue yields ANTH LOPE from letter play
Puzzle No 139 asks take a beverage add a drawing room fixture remove a pair add Carmen add a binding remove a trodent remove another animal to spell ANTH LOPE. Next week includes more puzzles and answers. Last week’s Pussies No 180 states the hole finished at 106 inches depth.
Tender for Painting Cumberland Schools
Tenders for painting the Cumberland School Buildings and the foot of one building will be received by the Secretary, Board of School Trustees, Cumberland B C, until June 23 1926 at 6 30 pm. Work starts within 15 days of contract and finishes by August 15. Bond required. Lowest tender not necessarily accepted. June 4 1926.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland
A. McKinnon
Board of School Trustees
B. C
Puzzle of travel and distances in a 1831 riddle
The text presents a traveler’s puzzle with routes from a hotel to a way house, Piketown, Pixley, and Quixley. It gives times and distances, noting a five hour total journey and calculations such as a seven mile stretch in 200 minutes and a 10.5 mile segment between Bixley and Quixley in 300 minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pixley
Bixley
Quixley
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John Inglis
Courtenay
City Meat
W. P. Symons Pee
Royal Candy Store
P. Harrison, M.L A
Cumberland Hotel
Piketown
Mace
Henderson’s Garage
Firestone Tires
Gutta Percha Tires
Third Street
Iloilo Theatre
Charlie Chaplin
Peter McNiven
Mr. Potter
Royston Lumber Co. “Limited
Cumberland, B. C
Wilcock Bros
B.C. Forest Service
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