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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1912
Page
7
The inventor Winslow Fairchild suffers repeated patent setbacks as rivals claim the same ideas. His wife uncovers a burglary by a thief using flash photography, stealing models and plans. Police recover photographs, and the man is convicted, transferring all patents to Fairchild who becomes wealthy.
Contracts and applications move forward as engineers start work on the Pittsburgh to Gettysburg State road and the Washington to Indiana State line route. Counties and townships seek state care for hundreds of miles of severely deteriorated roads, with Dauphin Cumberland Lebanon and Franklin counties submitting hundreds to thousands of feet of projects.
A playful exchange ponders which is the largest bug and why the oyster is wise. It asks which people have the most bones, answering that those who feed on fish hold the most.
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