Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1910 — Great Disaster. [ARTICLE]

Great Disaster.

“Cats have nine lives,” remarked the man with the faded jonquil in his coat. “Sure thing!" ejaculated the man in the celluloid cuffs. “And they are going to ship 5,000 cats from Chicago to Japan." "Yep!” “Well, if the ship should sink and none of those cats could be saved it would mean the greatest marine disaster known.” “In what way?” "Forty-five thousand lives lost.’’— Chicago News.