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...cause of all this is not so funny as its effect, however, for when he had a plate for pennies they failed to multiply as the papers disappeared. In fact they often disappeared themselves at a rate which would fill a carpet sweeper with envy...
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...Saint Joseph, Mich., when Alfred Zuhl, 11, pedaled too close to a vacuum street sweeper, he and his bicycle were whisked up. sucked into the dust container. Hastily mechanics took the sweeper apart, found the bicycle wrecked, Alfred Zuhl gasping but unhurt. Demanded Alfred Zuhl: "Where...
Heeding pleas of motorists that something be done about nails and sharp metal scraps on the highways, the Michigan Highway Department lately worked out a trailer which, hauled behind a truck, sucks up metal by magnetic attraction, feeds it into a hopper. The sweeper costs 35? per mile to operate, covers 42 miles per day. By last week it had accumulated more than a half ton of tire-damaging litter, including a pair of scissors...