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Newspaper
Ymir Herald
Location
Ymir, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Oct 07, 1905
Page
8
The text notes the Greek eps ton as Europe’s smallest current coin with the least intrinsic value. It takes 100 eps ton to equal one drachma, and the drachma is described as worth a trifling amount, less than 0 cents in American money.
The text notes that about 25 million people now speak English, up from 20 million a century ago. It observes that no other major European language grew as much and that German remains spoken by around 50 million, not increasing as a percentage of people of European descent.
The crown forests of Russia total billions of acres under the czar and another government branch. The czar employs 27,000 wood police who cut about 2,000,000 tons yearly mainly as firewood. Two decades ago US cutters felled 10,000 acres annually, but that wholesale destruction has stopped.
Louis Coulon, a 79 year old Frenchman living near Montreux, is billed as the world’s beard giant. He works in the iron works and earns meals by beard display, refusing public exhibitions despite temptations. His beard spans two inches past his feet when rolled and tucked, with a lineage of notably long facial hair in his family.
Sir Thomas Shaughnessy Senator Jo Foret and Mr Charles Hosroor arrived in Montreal on Saturday after an inspection in the west. They report the country in excellent condition with crops improving and everything in splendid shape despite earlier concerns.
The text notes British Columbia appears as prosperous as the speaker's province Quaker and claims a countrywide wave of prosperity. It suggests renewed activity once items are standardized, though not a mining boon, yet mines reflect western prosperity.
The narrative notes a 1888 copper smelter at Coldey on the CPR line by the Columbia and Kicking Horse rivers, likely built to secure land grants and later unused. It also mentions the 1888 Revelstoke plant by Kootenay Smelting & Trading that briefly produced lead, leaving a moulded bar labeled Kootenay now in Victoria's Mineral Museum as BC's first lead bar.
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