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Tea Used for Tanning

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 30, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 5.

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Tea Used for Tanning

THE steamer Mongolia, which was stranded at Midway Island last September, carried 70,000 pounds of tea which was damaged by salt water. According to the law in the matter, this tea would have to be destroyed or exported, but an arrangement was made with the Treasury Department to land it and sell it to a tannery, at about two-thirds the price of the uninjured tea. Now the tea will be used to tan skins instead of the stomachs of the consumers.