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Show In a recent issue of the Review of Reviews there is an interesting story telling of a new process by which copper can be hardened until its ten-sil ten-sil strength is 100 per cent greater than that of structural steel. Like the search for perpetual motion, mo-tion, the pursuit of a copper hardening harden-ing process led many an erstwhile experimenter ex-perimenter on a long and futile quest but at last it has been accomplished in a midwestern foundry. The process pro-cess is i-egarded by metallurgists, by industrial chiefs and by scores of manufacturing concerns as a major contribution both to science and industry. in-dustry. It will perhaps give a new birth to the copper industry and copper cop-per mining. On her ninety-ninth birthday, Mrs. Caroline Sylvan of Rochester, N. H., celebrated by dancing a jig and singing sing-ing songs to entertain guests who called at the home of her daughter. Although 97 years old, Edward Stewart of Dave County, N. C, still hunts rabbits and shoots them with deadly accuracy. |