Linen shirts were first worn in England about the year 1250. “ The art of washing,” i einarks the Burlington Free Press, was invented very soon afterwards.” The art of sewing on buttons has been lost though, since the year 1251. The great Mormon Temple at SJt Lake, which has been twenty-eight years in hand, is now approaching completion. The walls arc 8 ft. thick and 85 ft. high. It lias already cost nearly a million sterling. At Ambrose’s Barn, on the borders of the 1 horp, near Chertsey, resides a farmer, Mr. ’* upshot, whose ancestors have dwelt ou the same spot ever since the time of Alfred the Great, by whom the farm was granted to Reginald Wapshot.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 214, 20 August 1884, Page 2
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118Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 214, 20 August 1884, Page 2
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