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Prominent Merchant Employs Deaf Secretary as Scribe
In a Swesterny city a leading merchant uses a private secretary who is deaf and dumb and expert at clipping. She dictates letters in the usual way but always faces the secretary, yielding satisfactory work equal to that of any young woman in the office. A baby girl born in an English hospital recently weighed exactly three and a half pounds and was fed with a fountain pen filler, two teaspoonfuls per meal.
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