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Some Of The Biggest

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
June
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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A 46 3-4 Barman ruby, the largest ever cut, was sold in London ihe other day for J40.000. Henry Schacht of Johason county, Neb., sold the other day a pet pig weighing 850 pounds. A steel plate 76 feet 3 inches long, and 5 feet wlde has just been made by a Stockton (England) cjD.pany. You know the dome of St. Peter's church In Rome is upheld by four piera of irregular shape. Well, eacb of those piers is as big in floor area as an average church in New York. Piles from 100 to 105 feet long are used by the Tacoma Tand company. They are cut from Washington flr, which has furnished piles 120 feet long and two feet square at the butt. Christ never sent anyone to anybody else who came to him for help.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat