Iron County Record | 1937-12-23 | Page 7 | Hospital for Beer Steins Operates in New Orleans

Hospital for Beer Steins Operates in New Orleans New Orleans In In what he calls a aI beer stein hospital in the rear of I his home Frank Galliano former I boxer painter and soldier dally daily works at an unusual occupation occupation- mending broken mugs By Dy means of ot a specially prepared I cement and an ingenious filing tiling machine machine ma ma- chine fashioned from a pair of I shears and a few tew Galliano and his wife Anna turn out weekly II approximately restored beer mugs I The first step is to file even the broken edges of the crockery with his special filing machine then I place the stein on a table where a anew anew anew new base is glued on A few tew days of drying In the rack and then the mug goes back to its owner secure against ice tub foamIng foam foam- foaming Ing beer and dishwater It all started several yea years rs ago when I used to paint signs in beer parlors Galliano said I wondered wondered wondered won won- dered what they did with all aU the broken steins Then the idea struck him hire and he fashioned his own tools Gradually he improved his methods until now he handles business not only from New Orleans but from many Mississippi Mississippi Mis Mis- towns