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Lighter Sleeping-cars

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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
February
Year
1877
Copyright
Public Domain
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The sleeping-ears uow in use weigh from tweuty-four to thirty-iour tons. The upper portion of the cnr is made yery heavy and strong in order to : port tlie upper berths. Senator Wagner hopes to diminish the excesaive dead weight of a coach by using lighter matorials in eonstruetioii, and by introducing simple applianoes for kecping the upper bertlis in place. The new -:trs whioL he lias reoently ordered will not wi'igh more than nineteen tons. - New Vork Tribuut, A c'ourespondent in Montgouiery, i Va., desirt-B to kuow the oorreot pronunciation of the name of Knnbe, the ■ piano manufactui'er. It is prononnced Ken-ah-by.

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus