Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1912 — KEEP TALLY OF STITCHES [ARTICLE]

KEEP TALLY OF STITCHES

Workman From Missouri Finds There Are 324137 Strokes of the Needle in a Simple Garment. Kansas City, Mo.—Herman Axene, a tailor, took time to count the stitches in the last coat he madfe. He found 32.937—23,800 machine stitches and 9,137 hand stitches—he announced the other day. » The coat was a four-bnttpn saek, thirty-two inches long and single stitched.