Automatic Age

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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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