Antique humor and clippings, randomly discovered ephemera and interesting things! A lot of the things here are from before 1950, maybe way before. There will be things not politically correct today, ethnic humor, and enemies called names. The past is very messy.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Wire Fence Inventor Dead
1916
ADRIAN, Michigan. — J. Wallace Page, known as the "father of the wire industry," died at his home here, aged 73. Fifty years ago Page first conceived the idea of a wire fence.
—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Sept. 16, 1916, p. 2.
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