Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1889 — Paper Overcoats. [ARTICLE]

Paper Overcoats.

“If the clothmakera don’t get that man ap in the Northwest who has invented paper clothing into a trust next winter he’ll make a big fortune, and millions of overcoats will stay in the pawnshops, where they are now," said a Chicago jaan the other day to a friend. “He hasn’t got the idea worked out yet is far as he will probably go, but he made enough vests and underclothes last winter to create something of a panir. unong the St Paul clothiers, where he made his first business experiment on a big icale. The paper Is prepared, so that it is as soft as cloth, and the cold can not penetrate it. My father is engaged in an open-air occupation and likes to experiment, so he got one of these vests and wore it with no overcoat all last winter with great comfort. Next winter he says he intends to come out on the streets in a full suit of it"