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Newspaper
Ymir Herald
Location
Ymir, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Sep 09, 1905
Page
3
On opening day at a kinder, a pupil’s misbehavior led a teacher to punish until a boy cried out. Hillie’s mother, a school board member, confronted the teacher, and Mrs Grant asked what motive lay behind such harsh discipline, receiving a blunt reply about the “same end” as puking a child.
A creditor’s collector received a request for settlement. The debtor responds with a rambling note claiming poverty from a mining venture loss last September. He jokes about “Lodge of Sorrow” and “Hard Luck Chapter” while denying any debt dodging, ending with “I have hopes.”
The passage explains how pine plank blocks are prepared into lengths and knots removed. Blocks feed into an automatic line where a parattine and compositor assemble match heads in receptacles. Knives split splints and align them with iron plates and endless links to produce a continuous stream of matches.
The process describes endless chain drying heating and cooling stages for match heads with composition rollers and automatic box ejection into paper or strawboard cases. It notes daily production of over two million boxes and annual consumption of about one and a half million pounds of potassium chlorate. It also mentions Lake Superior native silver and copper ores yielding near pure silver and striking crystallized specimens.
The text notes a freight and passenger meets schedule with Sundays excluded for Yauip Wik by special orders on Sundays, Gr for Yun qnine.
Train timetable fragment shows Spokane Falls and Northern Railway arrivals and departures with stations listed as Spokane and Grand Forks. Times include 103 am and 1000 a.m. with Phoenix and Republic possibly referenced.
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