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LA. Guard Battery Capt. Turned Ice Maker

MOBILE REGISTER AND ADVERTISER, July 3, 1864, p. 1, c. 4

Home Manufactured Ice.—Capt. Camille Girardey, of Augusta, is manufacturing ice for the hospitals, by means of carbonic acid gas and water, under the influence of steam and atmospheric pressure, in a machine invented by M. Carrie, of France. The machine is capable of producing one ton per day.

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