GAOL TO WHEATFIELD. So pressing is the need of threshermen in Canada that farmers are reported to be going to Winnipeg and guaranteeing fines of men im gaol for petty offences if they will go out and work in the field. The authorities are agreeable, as the central police station is overcrowded, and a dozen men have been let out on these novel terms. A MARCONI SPARK. A story .about Signor Marconi has been floating about in London Stock Exchange circles. Mir Marconi at a recent dinner was seated beside a lady who, mixing him with hie compatriot Mascagni, said: " Oh, I'd love to hear* you play your beautiful 'Intermezzo.'" "I'll do it," the inventor promptly answered, "if you've got a wireless. piano." , It has been calculated that a pint of milk and four ounces of chocolate make a fair meal for an invalid.
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Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 404, 11 February 1913, Page 2
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144Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 404, 11 February 1913, Page 2
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