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Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 167, 14 July 1908, Page 3

Since 1840 forty-seven vessels, of wliich a part of the name was " Gity of;" have been wrecked or lost. The folding fan was invented m Japan, and was suggested by the way m which a bat closes its wings. A delicate machine for making watch screws will cut a perfect thread on the finest human hair. The coolness of surgeons is proverbial. Although a serious fire broke out' m the Protestant Hospital at Washington while an operation was being performed, the surgeons successfully finished their task. The Argentine armored gunboat Parana, launched from Elswick shipyard m April, was a triumph for Tyneside.- shipwright apprentices. Owing to the strike m the shipping trade, the apprentices were mainly responsible for the launching arrangements.