Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1912 — Decorations of the Daughters. [ARTICLE]

Decorations of the Daughters.

The aggregate value of the jewels worn by the Daughters of the American Revolution at a reecnt reception in Washington is said to have exceeded $500,000. Estimates of jewels are always liable tp large reductions; but it may be said that if the fathers of the revolution could at certain periods of the struggle have had $50,000 worth of ammunition at their command they could have shortened the war by two years or more.—Boston Transcript.