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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1912
Page
2
A Maryland waters livery contest between a large diving duck and a sizeable oyster ends tragically when the duck is killed and drowns after being swallowed by the oyster. A man then appears, kills the oyster, and eats both. The bird floats away with the oyster cluster, captured near a dock. The eerie scene is witnessed as the oyster’s clingy hold remains on the beak.
A machine measuring roadway wear was shown by the Physical Society of London at Imperial College. An official of the road board noted wood pavement wears about one inch in six years, asphalt about half an inch in ten years, and ordinary country highways two inches in three to ten years, depending on traffic.
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