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Newspaper
Ymir Mirror
Location
Ymir, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jan 09, 1904
Page
2
The Ymirl Mirror lists weekly publication details including subscription at 2 dollars per year, advance payment, and advertising rates at 1.50 per inch monthly. It notes entertainment notices require advertising and warns against irresponsible persons, with distribution via dealers or direct from the office. Commercial printing available on premises at standard prices.
In Ymir Saturday Gloomy Liberal factions split over Parry’s endorsement claims at a provincial election. J. W. Ross assumed the presidency of a reformist Liberal group as delegates are to be chosen for a Nelson convention and Dominion election candidate nomination.
The piece lists New Year resolves urging optimism and fair dealing, recalls the Chicago Troquois Theatre fire and past fatal fires in Brooklyn Paris London San Francisco and Chicago, then notes Peck McSwain swearing off alcohol and a brief history of the leap year and calendar reform by Julius Caesar.
The article explains the shift from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian system in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII. It notes Caesar's 365 1 4 day year and how centurial leap years were adjusted, making 1600 a leap year while 1700 1800 and 1900 were not, and observes the civil year is 22 seconds longer than the solar year, a difference negligible for millennia.
New York ministers mobilize to bar divorced persons from remarriage seeking strict, uniform divorce laws across states. Protestant leaders back a committee of the Protestant Episcopal Church to limit remarriage after divorce, arguing current lax attitudes erode morality and national character. The movement cites examples in New York City and other states and notes Canada’s similar concern as a potential model.
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