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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1957
Page
3
Charleston laundries sometimes deliver surprises when bundles open. Items range from a miniature mummy case to false teeth and even a $30 bill lost in a shirt pocket. Laundries separate clothes by fabric and employ several marking systems to prevent loss.
Dry cleaning uses two numbers per tag to identify bundles and piece counts. Pauley notes some laundries remove tags to save time, but Charleston shops keep them to avoid misplacements. He says lost clothes cost customers, and the royal coach known as Old Rattlebones was built two centuries ago and still rattles.
Burling Brothers, West Virginia's only circus, departs from New Martinsville for a tour of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland with about 50 performers. The show, formed by John A. and E. C. Burlingame in 1923, travels in 25 vehicles and features a two ring big top seating nearly 1000.
Prime Minister Kishi of Japan left Washington for New York in a Eisenhower supplied twin engine plane. Secretary Dulles led the farewell noting four days in the capital will be historic for U S Japanese relations. Eisenhower was at Gettysburg and Kishi praised personal talks with the President for future international ties.
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