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FAT TURTLE. - (United Press Association—By Electric 1 Telegi-aph—Copyright.) : NEW YORK,, July 22t The best way of adding weight to « turtle to-day appears to be to impristoii it in a foot of B pace beneath a flagfor twenty-one years. A turtle weighing five pounds was accidentally buried when a new sidewalk; was IhiO in front of a mid-town hotel in 1911. To-day it was found alive wherr a labourer. pulled up the .flagstones to replace them with a 'cement walk.. The snapping turtle weighed fourteen pounds, despite its lack of exercise..<■ RAILWAY MERGER. WASHINGTON, July 22 ' Til the most far-reo'ching decision ■ever handed down, .the Inter-State Commerce Commission to-day approved of the consolidation of nil eastern railroads exclusive! of those in. Non England, into four /P'eat systems.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1932, Page 5
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128GENERAL CABLES Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1932, Page 5
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