A DREAM INVENTION.
It wa3 through a dream that Watts, the Briato! plumber, made £IO,OOO. One niglic he tiraaait that, tvhile soldering up somu defsei on the roof a church, lis let the laciie of molten metal slip from his hand into the street br-lovv. On hastening riown to recover his utensil he found to his s:?rpris3 that ih* metal which is had contained, ir.stend of lying in an mtac" rns??, was scattered around in a myrisa r.i iuniute globules. On a w s !•; ep i n p, his curiosity pro n: p [ed him to repeat th•.>. experiment, when, to h':<! mrpnse, the falling lead brhaveu exactly ess it had done in his dream. This! discovery, which lie ru once adapted to the making of bad shot, brought him the above substantia! fortune. I i' you wani io save money ilu-n preserve I res!) when thev a re chea p. in SHAR LAND'S MOA BRAND EGG PRESERVATIVE 12
that town will ' the largest advertisement irr the world. The scheme provides for a sign a mile long, .100 feet high, which will be visible for mlies around, anci whiah would advertise the advantages offered by Hamilton in the matter of cheap electrical power.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 603, 17 September 1913, Page 3
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203A DREAM INVENTION. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 603, 17 September 1913, Page 3
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