A Thrifty German.
Some years ago a German professor appropriated an American invention for the employment of wood pulp in the manufacture of wood paper, and obtained a patent for it. He then issued licenses for the use of the patent, and his revenue from this source for some time past is calculated to have been nearly 500,000 marks annually. Not long since, however, a paper-maker discovered that the process was an American one, and patented at Washington some time before the German professor obtained his patent at Berlin, and the facts were laid before the Government. The result was that the patent was annulled and the paper trade relieved of a serious tax.
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Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 40, 8 March 1884, Page 5
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114A Thrifty German. Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 40, 8 March 1884, Page 5
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