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Bootmaking Extraordinary

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
January
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The cel bratod Chicago sausae machino has been eclipsed. In this machino tho pig, It will be rcrollected, is said to enter at one end and on the whisk of a handle to emerge In sausage. The Vienna papors aro raaking merry over a bet made a day or two ago by MMnM slioemaker in that city. He tmdertook f rom a giren calf to manufacture a pair of boots within twenty-four Iiour of the animal'! death. The conditions ware mado íiii'l a iiiimiiittee was appointed to we that they wcro duly carried out. Large ■takes were put into the hands of an impartial stakehoMer. Early in the morning of the appointed day a calf wat killed in th presem-o of minierons witnesses. The ikin was at the tanaarj at noon; it wa properly tanned and turned over to one of the most skülful hands of the spirited shocmaker that Tery eveninsr, and next mornin'; it reappeared in the shape of a pair of boot, which were won by the man who owned the calf that had carriod the skin the day before. -

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register