According to one French statistician at 50 years old the average man has slept GOOD days, worked 6500, walked 800, amused himself 4000, spent 1500 eating, and 500 ill. Vienna police statistics show a remarkable diminution in crime last year, especially in murder and robbery. The number of robbery cases fell from 102 in 1019 to 38 in 1920. Many Indians of North America are fitting motors to their canoes, and they now move rapidly up and down the rivers where for centuries the tribesmen have invariably had to paddle their canoes. A five hundred-weight wheel at the Efficiency Exhibition in London was so beautifully balanced on ball bearings that a touch was sufficient to set it revolving for three hours.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1921, Page 10
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121Page 10 Advertisements Column 4 Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1921, Page 10
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