SEVEN MILLION AND A HALF TOOTHPICKS A DAY.
A wood toothpick factory ig one of tha fluoriahing wood- working establishments of Harbour Springs, Michigan, U.S. White biroh is exclusiyely used in th« manufacture of the toothpicks, and about 7,600,000 of the little splinters are turned out daily. The logs aro. lawn up into bolts e*oh 28in. in length, then thoroughly steamed and cut up into veneer. The veneer is cut into lonjt ribbons,Vthree inches in width,, and these ribbons, eight or ten at a time, are ran through the toothpick jnachinery, coming out at ; the other end, tht perfect pieces falling into one basket, the broken pieces 'and refuse falling into another-. The piaks are paoked into botes, 1,500 in a box, and are tlieu putintocas»a, and finally into big boxes, ready for shipment to all parts of the , world. The white birch toothpicks are laid to b* very neat and olean in appear* tin and tweet tt tke twrte.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 31 January 1890, Page 2
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160SEVEN MILLION AND A HALF TOOTHPICKS A DAY. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 31 January 1890, Page 2
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