Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1910 — Had a Reason. [ARTICLE]

Had a Reason.

“Not going on the straw' ride?” “No.” “Why not?” “I went on a straw ride once.” The Bavarian branch of the Deutsche Bank in Munich has made a successful effort to introduce a sys-t tem of payment by post card checks. The number of books exported from Germany by German publishers last year exceeded 42,000,000, weighed 42,100,000 pounds and were valued at $15,000,000. Russia in Europe has 575,000,000 acres of forests and about 350,000,000 acres in Asia. Italy has 10,000,000 acres of forests.