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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 25 May 1917, Page 5

The cold winter- of 1340 gave us the blanket. So, at least, says tradition, which ascribes its invention to Thomas Blanket, a Flemish merchant, who set tied in Bristol, and fell from affluence to want. He and his wife, suffering from the intense cold by reason of scanty bedding and lack of fuel searched for something to put on the bed to increase the warmth, and hit on a pie^e of rough unfinished cloth that had been thrown to waste. Its success as" a warmth-giver suggested the manufacture of special bed covers from the same material, and these articles, to wiv.eh ho cave his own vnmo. won ilia worthy Blanket wealth and immortality. Because his wife persisted in n'nvinp; n>e phon"<rraDh n f tf>r the i,.,;^,-^ hour, a Pennsylvania man named'"Eli Beda got up from his disturbed sleep and smashed the music box. Mrs Bcdn angered by the act. picked* up ,- her husband's gun and shot "him. Sir William Milligan announced that it will be 20.000 years before the Manchester Radium 'institute will need' a new^stock of radium, this being one of the fr-w valuable products Geraianv was unable effectually to corner.