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JohnHocklings, “the Birmingham blacksmith/* ) was one day at a lecture, when the lecturer was ) dilating upon the powers of the magnet, defying A any one to show or name anything surpassing its. 5{lowers; he (Mr. Hocklings); accepted the ehal- ( enge, much to the lecturer’s surprise, but he ne- 5 vertheless invited him on to the platfbtm, when he ) told the lecturer that woman was the ittgttet of j magnets ; for, if the loadstone on the table CCtild lt;attract a piece of iron for a foot or two, there was lt;a young woman who, when he was a young man, j used to attract huh thirteen miles every Sunday lt;to have a chat With her ! \
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London Ladys Newspaper
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Apr 10, 1847
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