Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1910 — This Calls for Sympathy. [ARTICLE]

This Calls for Sympathy.

“Yes, It’s pretty hard luck to find your coal bin empty during a cold snap and be unable to replenish It except at exorbitant prices. To keep my house half way warm yesterday cost me $3. “Great Scott! What extortion!” “N-no, it wasn’t exactly that It was even worse. There was no fuel In the house, and I had to burn the children’s Christmas trees.” A prominent French manufacturer of glace fruits admits that the cherries of California are at least as good in quality las the French varieties.