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In Texas superstitious people carry a small bone from a fish's head, but ’ the luck only comas after the charm ; has been lost. | The Bedouin Arabs are small eati ers. Six or seven dates soaked in melted butter serve a man a whole day, | with a very small quantity of <f&arse | flour or a little ball of rice. I As late as IS4O there were neither roads nor coaches in any country dis- ; trict of Portugal. Gentlemen traveled ! on horseback and ladies in sedan chairs, I carried by men, or in mule litters. It is said’ that Herbert C. Hoover is I one of the highest salaried men of his years in the industrial world. At th r y'C of 29 he is in recept of $33,000 o ■ iia’-ly for his services as a mining j Cfcanberiiio’s S Tablets
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3548, 18 July 1905, Page 4
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142SCRAPS OF INFORMATION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3548, 18 July 1905, Page 4
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