NEWS IN BRIEF.
No less than 38,060 tons of steel were used in the construction of the Forth Bridge. If this quantity of steel were concentrated in a single mass, it would make a block of moral 450 ft. long, 30ft. wide, and 30ft. high. Mrs Dove Porter, of Bingham, Nottinghamshire, was 100 years old on February 11. She is a widow, and still resides in the cottage her husband bough I her after their marriage*, and which has been in the family three centuries.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2884, 16 May 1925, Page 1
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85NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2884, 16 May 1925, Page 1
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