“You were quite right to take rum for a cold; it is the best cure,” said Mr Symmons, in discharging a woman charged at Marylebone with being drunk. To win a wager. John H. Bryant, an unemployed Deptford man, dived 80ft into the Thames from London Bridge and swam to Old Swan Pier. A machine which wraps tip 1500 loaves an hour, sealing them in waxed paper without their being touched by human hands, was recently exhibited in London. A oerfect fossil of a wasp, identical in colour and form with the insect v,e know to-day, has been found in Colorado; it is supposed to be thousands of years old.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIII, Issue 9749, 14 December 1922, Page 5
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