More than 200 women were glued to their seats at the Hippodrome, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, owing to the melting" of the varnish on'the chairs, and could be removed only after an hour's exertion on the part of the officials. A railway porter at Haslemere (London and South-Western Jlailway) station, is also an editor and a publisher. He is the founder of the illustrated district guide to Haslemere and Hindhead, which he edits and publishes A picturesque way of removing surplus stock has been adopted by a firm of pianoforte dealers, of Melbourne. Recently fifty-one obsolete pianofortes were borne through the streets to the strains of "Auld Lang Syne," heaped in a pile, .soaked iu kerosene, and burnt!
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 169, 22 August 1914, Page 3
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116Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 169, 22 August 1914, Page 3
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