Some of the newspapers are pointing out the utility of layers of newspapers stitched together as a substitute for blankets, and trumpeting the discovery as if it were a new one. But Auckland can put forward a leading case to shotv that the device was in use long ago. Poor old Edmund Costley, whose riches have, since his death, benefitted ever so many local institutions, habitually wore a cloak of newspapers rather than spend more money than he could help on woollen clothing. His parsimony ip this and other respects was a factor in the accumulation ’-•-reat fortune that remained to be of tm. D ’ —‘ fee was Of) longer able to distributed wm—board it. — Observer. C. ROSIE AND CO. for Best .Value in Towels, Sheeting, Calico, Lace Curtains, etc., all direct from the manufacturer. i; '
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 829, 18 February 1903, Page 4
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