Friction matches gave people the unprecedented ability to light fires quickly and efficiently, changing domestic arrangements and reducing the hours spent trying to light fires using more primitive ...

THE recent omission by a well-known firm of match manufacturers to comply with the regulations relative to notification to the Home Office of cases of phosphorus-necrosis among their employés, and the ...

The temperature in Denton on Sunday, July 8, 1860, was at least 100 degrees. Residents, like the crops, were parched. The city of Denton was only 3 years old; Denton County had only 5,031 residents.

OUR readers will be aware that about a year, ago the attention of the public was specially directed to the danger which attends the use of yellow phosphorus in the manufacture of matches. Numerous ...

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The temperature in Denton on Sunday, July 8, 1860, was at least 100 degrees. Residents, like the crops, were parched. The city of Denton was only 3 years old; Denton County had only 5,031 residents.