Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1902 — The Malmed Machinists. [ARTICLE]

The Malmed Machinists.

It would Appear that one of the most dangerous of peaceful occupations is the seemingly innocuous one of attendant of a joiner’s planing machine. At a hearing in a prosecution under the factory act at Halifax recently a factory inspector told the court that when he took office he made it a point to trv to discover an attendant of such a machine who had all his fingers. It was five years before he came across such a mau. All the attendants of joiners* planing machines whom he had seen in the meantime had one or more fingers missing, which they had lost in the performance of their work—and that notwithstanding the fact that the men engaged in Buch work are aware of the dunger and are careful.

I have private funds to loan on real estate at low rates for any length of time. Funds are always on hands and there is no delay—no examination of land, no sending papers east—absolutely no red tape. Why do you wait on insurance companies for 6 months for your money? I also loan money for short times at current bank rates. Funds always on hand.

W. B. AUSTIN.