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A very interesting bit of news has been found in a very unusual place; it is in a bottle at the top of a church spire at Harrogate, in England. The church was built 65 years ago, and the foreman builder was John Ellis. He built well, for hig church has stood the test of time, and he had some imagination, for at the very top of the spire lie built into, the brickwork a bottle with a little message for the future. This is what he said:— The electric telegraph has got near to perfection, but, in my mind, we are only in our infancy. The > railway accommodation at present .is. very good; the rate of travelling is about thirteen miles an hour for Government trains, and the charge is a penny a mile. The International Exhibition in London is open now. John -Ellis was a good prophet, but what would he say, one wonders, if he could see to-day, what has become of the electric * telegraph f He would surely think that though it is a grandfather by nowit is still in its infancy.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 14
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188BOTTLED UP. Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 14
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