Nearly 4,000,000 volumes of the Telephone Directory for London are turned out every year. They weigh 4000 tons. Bulgarian Customs officers have been instructed to keep a strict watch on beards. This follows the discovery that a traveller —who had attracted attention by his nervousness —had a dozen valuable rubies concealed in his beard, hoping to smuggle them over the frontier.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1938, Page 7
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