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  The East Shore News
  Pentwater, Michigan
  May 19, 1871

                                 OLD SHOES.

        Children, you probably think that if you look very sharply at an
     old shoe when you throw it away, you will know it if it ever comes
     back to you. But that doesn't at all follow. One of these days you may
     button your dress with an old pair of slippers, comb your hair with a
     boot, or grasp a cast-off gaiter in your hand while you eat your din-
     ner. You don't see how this can be? Well, we'll tell you.
        Old shoes are turned to account by manufacturers in the following
     manner; They are cut into very small pieces, and kept for a couple of
     days in chloride of sulpher. The effect of this is to make the leather
     hard and brittle. Next, the material is withdrawn from the action of
     the chloride of sulpher, washed with water, and dried. When thoroughly
     dry, it is ground to a powder, and mixed with some substance like glue
     or gum, that causes it to adhere together. It is then pressed into
     molds and shaped into buttons, combs, knife-handles, etc. So you see
     how it may come to pass that you will comb your hair with a boot, and
     fasten your clothes with a slipper.

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