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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 336 words
  3. THE WORLD'S PROGRESS

    The German military manoeuvres this year, as usual. possessed many interesting features affecting modern warfare. Motor omnibuses played a very great part in them. Each motor ...

    Article : 193 words
  4. AN UNSOLVED PROBLEM.

    What to do with war vessels, especially battleships and cruisers or which the ...

    Article : 185 words
  5. THE VALUE OF NORWAY'S WATER POWER.

    According to "Engineering," Norway is estimated to possess an aggregate water-power suitable for exploitation representing, when duly utilised, a total of 4,000,000 constant ...

    Article : 85 words
  6. A NEW LOCOMOTIVE.

    Mr. Dugald Drummond chief locomotive engineer to the London and South-Western Railway Company, has designed and built a new type of "Atlantic" engine, watch, the "Times" says. ...

    Article : 77 words
  7. WANTED: A RIVET-HEATING MACHINE.

    There is considerable inventive activity along the line of pneumatic riveting machines universally used in the erection of structural steel work. There does not appear however, says ...

    Article : 131 words
  8. LOESS.

    The formation of "loess." a fine yellowish sandy clay found in various parts of the world. and reaching a thickness of over a thousand feet in China, has given rise to much discussion and ...

    Article : 110 words
  9. NEW WORLD IS FORMING. ASTRONOMERS ASSERT.

    The planet Jupiter, whose volume is 1279 times that of the earth, and superior in dimensions and weight to all the other planets put together, is just now attracting the attention of ...

    Article : 177 words
  10. NEW GASEOUS ELEMENT OF AIR.

    Still another must be added to the gaseous elements of the air if the hypothesis of Dr. A. Wegener, a German, proves to be correct. Spectroscope observations of auroras, with other ...

    Article : 201 words
  11. A WONDERFUL MINIATURE.

    According to the "Electrical Review," the Miniature electrometer recently constructed by M. G. Trevet, at Bellevue , France, works must satisfactorily in spite of its marvellously small ...

    Article : 125 words
  12. A MYSTERIOUS METAL.

    Some secrecy, says the "Manchester Guardian," is maintained as to the precise composition and properties of the alloy duralumin which was employed in the framework of the wrecked ...

    Article : 210 words
  13. NEW FEATURES IN GERMAN SCHOOLS.

    The new common schools in Bremen are provided with bathing halls, where the scholars may take weekly shower baths. At present bathing is not compulsory, but is under the ...

    Article : 137 words
  14. THE EUROPEAN NAVIES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 206 words
  15. NIAGARA AND VICTORIA.

    What is the true comparison between the power of Niagara and the Victoria Falls in South Africa ? The answer is that the flow at Niagara varies between 62,000,000 and 104,000,000 ...

    Article : 129 words
  16. THE HUMAN AURA.

    The so-called human aura is the subject of a remarkable statement by Mr. G. P. Lewis, a civil engineer in the City of London who has for some years been experimenting with ...

    Article : 199 words
  17. ILLUMINATING PISTOLS.

    During the present extended manoceuvers of the German army there were many night attacks, in which use was made of the newly-introduced illuminating pistols. According to ...

    Article : 222 words
  18. REFORMATION IN GERMAN CHINA.

    Tsingtan is an example of the possibilities of afforestation. Its growing forests and experimental gardens are an oasis in China. During 1911 it is planned to reforest the "Wushan," an ...

    Article : 170 words
  19. THE EVE OF A GREAT DISCOVERY.

    An occasional correspondent writes to the "Scotsman" : "A friend just returned from America, where he enjoyed the privilege of a long conversation with professor Bell, found ...

    Article : 183 words
  20. TESTS OF CEMENT AS AN IRON PRESERVATIVE.

    Tests are to be made by the Panama Canal Commission to determine the value of cement mortar applied to iron plates by the "cement gun" as a preservative of iron. Twelve plates ...

    Article : 177 words
  21. ARTIFICIAL SPONGES.

    An artificial sponge, the outcome of German ingenuity, is now to be had. The process of making it consists principally in the action of zinc chloride on pure cellulose. This results ...

    Article : 182 words
  22. COMMONWEALTH PATENTS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 184 words
  23. LIVES ON 2/6 A WEEK.

    An inquest was held at Poplar, England, recently. on George Danel Hazer. 75 years ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 172 words
  24. WORK & WAGES THE WORLD OVER

    The director of the Royal Bavarian Statistical Office, Dr. Friedrich Zahn, has recently ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 283 words
  25. DEARTH OF TAILORS.

    Giving evidence before the Allen Immigration Board, Max Madat, a London East End master tailor, said England was just now suffering from a great dearth of tailors. They went to America ...

    Article : 93 words
  26. FOUR DRILL HOLES HORED IN RESCUE OF MINER.

    Four 6in drill holes had to be bored before the workers attempting to rescue Joseph Clary, a miner, from his entombment in the White Oaks mine. Joplin, U.S.A. succeeded in establishing ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 125 words
  27. 10,000,000 DAYS LOST.

    How strikes affect workers in regard to days lost is shown by Sir George Askwith's report on the industrial disturbances in Great Britain last year. These, he shows. Involved 515,165 workers. ...

    Article : 78 words
  28. THE SOCIAL MILLENNIUM.

    Philip Snowden. M.P., in the "Christian Commonwealth": The idea that the social millennium is going to be established by one great dramatic act by the workers, acting under the ...

    Article : 95 words
  29. COKE WORKERS' AWARD.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 116 words
  30. SOLOMON'S TEST TO BE APPLIED.

    Mr. Churchill, now First Lord of the Admiralty, but then Home Secretary, speaking at Dundee. last month, declared In reference to the much-debated Sunday closing clauses of the ...

    Article : 114 words
  31. WORKING MEN AND RUSKIN COLLEGE.

    Perhaps the most characteristic and the most Pathetic aspect of the rapidly-growing movement amongst working men to gain higher education is the way in which so many would-be ...

    Article : 244 words
  32. ARE ENGLISH WORKMEN LAZY?

    English workmen are lazy. It costs less to lay a thousand bricks in New York than it does in London, despite the fact that the wages of bricklayers in the former city are more than ...

    Article : 71 words
  33. STOREMEN AND PACKERS' AWARD.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 96 words
  34. DAMAGES FOR SUNSTROKE.

    An important award in respect or employers' liability was given by Mr. Mansfield, sitting as deputy county court judge at Preston, Eng., last month. ...

    Article : 122 words
  35. WHAT PAVEMENT ARTISTS EARN.

    One of the minor industries of London that is not dying is that of the pavement artist. His numbers, if anything, are on the increase, and it is reckoned amongst the fraternity that there ...

    Article : 165 words
  36. WOMEN IN WORKSHOPS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 115 words
  37. SECRETS OF HOTEL ROBSERY BY TIPS.

    A "Standard" correspondent recently cabled to London some of the secrets of New York hotels with a view to a comparison with London, where it is well known, a similarly strange ...

    Article : 222 words
  38. A FURTHER ILLUSTRATION OF PRINCIPLE IN PRACTICE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 220 words
  39. SEA CAPTAINS PAY.

    The masters of the large steamers engaged in the New Zealand trade have received proposals in reference to wages conditions by the Union Company, the Huddart Parker Company, the ...

    Article : 139 words
  40. OPERATIVE PRINTERS—[?] HOURS WEEK.

    The half-yearly report of Mr. George A. Isaacs, the general secretary of the British Operative Printers Assistants' Society, is a must encouraging one especially a view of the fact ...

    Article : 33 words
  41. BRITISH BOILER-MAKERS PROGRESS.

    Although there is an increase in the number of unemployed on the books of the British Boiler Makers' and Iron and Steel Ship Builders Society in consequence of disputes of helpers and ...

    Article : 155 words
  42. NO MORE PENNY SHAVES.

    A hundred and fifty barbers in Staffordshire (England) held a meeting recently, and decided to abolish penny shaves. Amid great enthusiasm a resolution to institute a minimum charge of ...

    Article : 56 words
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