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Show Many Meehanleal AIJ. With the development of the boot and shoe industry there has been a correspond in" increase in mechanical aids to the shoemaker shoe-maker who works on tbe bench, the manufacturer manu-facturer who employs hundreds of bands, and the shoe repairer. Of machinery, tools and supplies for those who turn out foot eear there are now no less than If articles, all regularly listed snd catalogue! - Some of these articles are made in almost endless varieties. There are. for instance, twenty-three kind, of shoe knives, over twenty varieties of button fasteners, lasts and iacks without end, hundreds of minor machines duly protected by .patents twentv-fbzht threading machines, while of peg. shank, box. fudge, stitch cord and bottom wheels there is a bewildering van-ey van-ey Lewiston Joura' . |