Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1910 — Rich With Carbon. [ARTICLE]

Rich With Carbon.

“I had a searchlight lunch at, that little country store,” says the automoblllat, recounting the adventures on his last trip. “A searchlight lunch?” Inquire the hearers, with puzzled expressions. “Tea—mostly currants.” Thus we see that as the automobile Is a great advance over the primitive ox cart, so la the searchlight-currant joke a modern development of the electric plant-currant crop witticism.