Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1910 — Repairs Needed. [ARTICLE]

Repairs Needed.

Thomas A. Edison said recently of aeronautics: "Within five years the North Pole will be reached in a forty-hour trip, and the globe will be encircled within a week. “But the typ« Of aeroplane must be changed,” continued Mr: Edison, "before such flights are undertaken, or otherwise aeronauts will be talking like the automobllist who, after buying a cheap car, visited the salesrooms and said: “ ‘You said when yon sold me my four horse power runabout that you'd supply all parts broken.’ “ ‘Yee, sir,’ said the salesman. “ Then,’ said the other, ‘let me hav« at once, please, a first and third rib, two front teeth, one left ankle bone and a nose bridge.’”.