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Hess
t
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Will
sorted nearly 50 years ago
more >>°n^ nue another 50 years or
S°a.^e building the Watling C'om-
P°int with pride to the follow -
'^ a ch ievem en ts;
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ma^e the only coin operated
slot^ l e ss Guessing Scale with three
y s‘ "‘I f you guess the lucky slot
get weighed free.”
. ey make the only coin operated
c>n ln^ ess Scale with Vending Ma-
Chlnes attached.
fl* y
the first large head, round
? P°st, Springless coin operated
® on the market.
Spri ey ^uilt the first coin operated
ani^ e s s Scale, exposing the mech-
'pi
^uilt the first coin operated
e t ^ s s Scale with the graduations
ed 0,n the glass dial.
W
Were the first to attach Vend
or
ac^ines to the column o f coin
Pirated scales.
were the first to demonstrate
ley Practicability o f vending W rig-
from Vending Machines at
e to W atling Springless Scales.
Another Late Machine
The
value o f time-
~
M.V
. prodigious
-
s*vin
cate!l\ inventions is forcefully indi
a jl ^ the fact that the inventor o f
•tyork °ney-counting machine which
and K-n au^omatically on both coins
d°]i
*s has been offered six million
a Qp1,8 ^°'r
patent right. He is
laencf man y ° uth named Ludwig Eiss-
Sch0
years old and a high
0 scholar.— Newspaper Clipping.
the d fourth o f March, 1789, was
first p y SG^ ^0r tbe opening o f our
°f Q 0ngress, but the inauguration
r ^ 0Vernrnent was delayed until
q\!0
6‘ over a month— before a
c o * Was found and the votes
made Washington
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America's dentists are said to lead
the world. George III had a Yankee
dentist.. Dr. Thomas W . Evans, the
distinguished
Philadelphia dentist,
treated Emperor Napoleon III o f
France and sheltered the Empress
Eugenie atfer the monarchy’s fall.
The only thing in the four Gospels
to which Hindus invariably take ex
ception is the killing o f the fatted
calf. This is because they regard the
cow as sacred.
An old English couple dwell un-
distured in a completely furnished
rent-free house from which, twenty
years ago, the owner was scared by
the appearance o f a “ ghost.”
A decree giving Mexican women
equal civil rights with men has been
prepared by President Calles and will
be promulgated soon.
Though not
giving the right to vote, it will re
vise the civil code which at present
gives women an inferior status to
men.
In Early Saxon marriages the fa
ther o f the bride delivered one o f her
shoes to the bridegroom, who touched
her head with it as a symbol o f his
authority. Today only the idea o f
luck is associated with the custom
o f throwing shoes at both bride and
groom.
Recent discoveries at Mount Sinai,
Arabia, have brought to light new
fragments o f the mysterious Sinai
inscriptions, which are stone carvings
believed to be at least 3,000 years
old.
A ccording to the United States
Treasury, the largest supply o f mone
tary gold ever accumulated by any
country in the history o f the world,
a total o f $4,598,782,795, was held in
American vaults on April 1 o f this
year. This is about half o f all the
gold in the world.
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