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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8784, 14 July 1914, Page 11

Albert Williams, a Birmingham onearmed billiard, player, recently made a break of 74 at snooker. As the English record is 83,. this is probably the best break ever made by a one-armed player. Two ancient fire buckets, dating back to 1600, have been recovered by the Ashford Fire Brigade, which is the oldest voluntary brigade in England. The buckets are. of leather, with wooden bottoms. The beard of a white man is 50 per cent, thicker than his hah - , and is almost ! identically the size of the hair of the chimpanzee. The strength of human hair is, as a rule, in direct , proportion to its thickness. Mine. Konsnetzoff, after dancing at the Russian Court and appearing in the opera at Monte Carlo, has been engaged for a series of representations at music-halls in New York and Chicago at salaries which amount to £2400 a week. In just over seven weeks three sisters, who lived at Hitehin, Herts, have died, their joint ages totalling &65 years.

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