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  2. THE WORLD'S PROGRESS

    Dr. P. W. Goldsbury comments on the injurious effects of the indoor dryness of the atmosphere in Winter. The irritation of the lips and throat and the parched feeling of the skin are ...

    Article : 224 words
  3. ANOTHER TRANS-ATLANTIC AIRSHIP.

    Mr. Vaniman, who accompanied Mr. Walter Wellman in his ill-rated attempt to cross the Atlantic in an airship, will shortly make an effort to cross on his own account. The ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 392 words
  4. MECHANICAL NESTS FOR POULTRY.

    The old tale has it that a very smart Yankee poultry fancier once invented a wonderful nest with which to induce his birds to lay an increased supply of eggs. It was a trap on safety ...

    Article : 247 words
  5. AN IMPORTANT INVENTION.

    Announcement is made of the perfection of an invention which will widen the scope of long distance telephony immensely. By means of a newly-invented instrument, a telephone message ...

    Article : 360 words
  6. COMMONWEALTH PATENTS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 216 words
  7. THE AGE OF STEEL.

    If the nineteenth century is looked back to as the true Iron Age. the present century will assuredly in turn he designated the Age of steel. There was, of course, an iron age known to the ...

    Article : 329 words
  8. RUBBER PAVING IN LONDON.

    The prophecy of the president or the Rubber Exhibition, held at the London Agricultural Hall, that the time will soon come when the price of rubber would be low enough to make ...

    Article : 217 words
  9. WORK & WAGES THE WORLD OVER

    Chimney sweeps of Vienna, having formed "a Trust" to keep up prices, house rents in the poorer quarters where the landlord pays the sweep will have to be raised. A sweep in ...

    Article : 78 words
  10. WORK IN THE ENGINE-ROOM AT SEA.

    White keeping watch on the navigating bridge, and everything going smoothly. I often wondered (writes an officer) how the engineer on watch was passing his time and what would be ...

    Article : 1,291 words
  11. STRIKE OF EMPLOYERS.

    The carting contractors at Longton, in the Potteries district of England, have for some time past been trying to secure increased prices tor haulage in order to meet their drivers' ...

    Article : 99 words
  12. £1000 FOR BREAD AND FLOUR.

    A farm hand named Bygrave of Radwell. Baldock (Eng.), has kept an account of all the bread and flour bills he has paid during forty-three years for his thirteen children, and ...

    Article : 111 words
  13. DRASTIC INDUSTRIAL BILL.

    The Tasmanian Legislative Assembly is at present considering a measure dealing with Wages Boards. Mr. Ewing moved its second reading, and said the object was to bring about ...

    Article : 167 words
  14. RAILWAY CLERKS.

    The New South Wales Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association has decided that all clerks employed in the railway service must become members of the Clerks' Union. ...

    Article : 63 words
  15. THE DONKEY ENGINE.

    You hear him puffing loudly on the freighter in the dock As he swings the cargo in her to the clacking of the block. ...

    Article : 251 words
  16. VICTORIAN TRAMWAY MEN.

    Consequent upon the Australian Tramway Employees Association having obtained the consent of the Government to have the Engine-drivers'. Board called together to consider the ...

    Article : 101 words
  17. FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE.

    A deputation representing the Federal Public Service Associations in Sydney waited upon the Minister for Home Affair last week in order to submit a number of amendments in the ...

    Article : 315 words
  18. THEATRICAL EMPLOYEES RESTLESS.

    A circular has been issued to the inter-State branches of the association by the Federal Council of the Theatrical Employees' Association, couched in the following terms:— ...

    Article : 226 words
  19. Advertising

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    Advertising : 210 words
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