Bill Jones, a country storekeeper, went to the city to buy a stock of goods. The goods were forwarded immediately and arrived before Bill. As his wife looked at the largest box she gave a piercing shriek and rushed for a hammer. A neighbour, coming to her assistance, asked what was the trouble. Pale and trembling. Mrs Jones pointed to the notice on the lid: "Bill inside.”
Ottawa. —Canada is today one of the leading countries of the world in the canning of food, particularly vegetables, fruit' and fish, and exports of these commodities run into large amounts every year. Canning of food owes its inception to Napoleon Bonaparte who. for military and economic reasons, offered in 1795 a prize of 12,000 francs for an improved and practical method of preserving food from one harvest to another.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 November 1939, Page 8
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