Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1910 — Next Thing. [ARTICLE]

Next Thing.

The shades of night were falling. Swiftly and gracefully an aeroplane descended, landing as lightly as a feather on the smooth roadway of the boulevard. Forth stepped an elegantly attired man, wearing a mask. “Snatching a purse from a richly appareled dame who was passing, he stepped back into the Aeroplane and was soaring aloft and disappearing in the distance before it occurred to the astonished victim to let loose a scream. —Chicago Tribune. There are about 170,000 oil producing well? In the United States, representing directly and Indirectly an outlay of about $700,000,000.