MARATHON KNITTING
Mrs. Dora Montgomery and her circle of workers called the "Young Ladies j of Maidenhead, are -JJ&d to be tho world's record knitters. Actually, past and present members of trio | "Young Ladies" have been knitting f° r ; a total of nearly 400 years, and naio used more than a -thousand miles o, wool, states London.. ji rs * ■ Montgomery helped with comforts W . the troops in the Crimean "War. To-daj> i<at 99, she is still doing hpr bit.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23773, 28 September 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)
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79MARATHON KNITTING New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23773, 28 September 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)
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