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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 206, 18 December 1876, Page 4

j Among other corioos machines no exhijitod In the "Great Hall of Machines" tt Philadelphia is one for the manafaca» of paper collars, an enormous busi»«se in the United States, producing no ewer than 200,000,000 collars a year, pffaa & roll of thick calendered paper, acedwith cloth, the machine cuts the in a pair of en Ming-dies, after the stitch-pattern and number them.- Few, if any, collars made of paper are now manufactured, fee ration-faced kind having driven them Mat the market. It is estimated that pe wing in Trashing amounts to ftooo,ooo & year. The company which Lhibito these machines shows, in a glass ie, a collection of all the styles of collars use, for twenty-two years since the in■ftkyawaa made. A remarkable relic of ttristic-fervoor Is the "Fort Sumter ■Bar," with the Stars and Stripes printed <«ko co each side. This "sweet log in collars," had, it is stated, an sale In 1861. - It is strange that so great a power of re* " jm not more extensively used j «moog the poorer classes, r MmiiM jenerafly who are unable to weold find sheets of coarse tftMper sewn span sheets an admirnaMitatp /or AU*«» articles of bed