A London correspondent bemoans the fact that we live in an age of ready-made ties, tobacco, cartridges, and abridged editions of the Waverley novels. Cows are milked by machinery, and, thanks to incubators, even hens shirk the duties of maternity. Tt was stated at Dublin recently that a lamp inspector employed by the Belfast Corporation had saved £2000 out of a. salary of £2 a week. Although 86 years old, be worked almost to the day of his death. There are said to be over 50,000 revolutionaries in England. What a terrible menace to the jaeace of society.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXI, Issue LXII, 8 April 1911, Page 9
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98Page 9 Advertisements Column 2 Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXI, Issue LXII, 8 April 1911, Page 9
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