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<title>Playing with fire: Local blacksmith combines art with function (The Argus-Press)</title> 
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CHAPIN TWP. - Arthur Johns has turned a trade - once relied upon for tools and horseshoes - into an art form, using blacksmithing to turn iron into creative sculptures and custom architecture.
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<title>Java blacksmith and family shocked to know they were saved by Obama&#039;s mum (New Kerala)</title> 
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New York, Nov.8 : In a remote corner of rural Java, a blacksmith and his family were astounded last week to learn that the American woman who helped save them from poverty 26 years ago was Ann Dunham, an anthropologist better known as the late mother of US President Barack Obama.
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<title>Blacksmith Brands Announces Acquisition and Partnership With The Emerson Group (GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)</title> 
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TARRYTOWN, N.Y. -- Blacksmith Brands, Inc. announced that it had completed its acquisition of five over-the-counter consumer products brands from McNEIL-PPC, Inc. Blacksmith acquired the following branded consumer products: EFFERDENT denture cleaner, EFFERGRIP denture adhesive cream, LUDEN&#039;S throat drops, PEDIACARE children&#039;s cough and cold medicine and PEDIACARE Gentle Vapors waterless ...
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<title>Rotarians get look at Sanderson?s blacksmith shop (The Coldwater Daily Reporter)</title> 
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The Quincy Rotary traveled back in time on Monday, visiting the blacksmith shop of Joel Sanderson.  
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<title>Ares Capital Corporation Leads New Senior Debt Financing for Blacksmith Brands (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)</title> 
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NEW YORK----Ares Capital Corporation announced today that it structured and lead arranged a $65 million senior secured debt financing for Blacksmith Brands, Inc., a newly formed consumer products company backed by Charlesbank Capital Partners LLC.
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<title>The End of Pollution? -- Blacksmith Institute Report Highlights Top 12 Cleanups and Successes from around the World ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)</title> 
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NEW YORK----A new report issued today by New York-based Blacksmith Institute and Green Cross Switzerland highlights 12 successful approaches in use today to clean up some of the world?s worst polluted places.
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<title>Young blacksmith shows a vanishing craft at Lincoln Log Cabin (Herald &amp; Review)</title> 
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LERNA - Rex Colgrove said blacksmithing is a dying trade because there aren&#039;t a lot of young people doing it, but he&#039;s doing his part.
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