Wlicn pins were invented in the fourteenth century, the maker was allowed to sell them only on the first two days of January. Upon these days women flocked to buy them. The pms were so expensive that it was the custom to give as a present a sum of money to be used as pin-money. Hence the term.
There has just died at Lancaster, at the age of ninety-one years, Thomas Rogers, who had been employed at the Waring Furniture Factory there for seventy-six years. Ho' worked at the bench as a wood-turner.up to his death. His son has been forty-nine years in the same factory, and his grandson nearly twenty years.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6851, 5 March 1929, Page 11
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112Page 11 Advertisements Column 4 Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6851, 5 March 1929, Page 11
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