Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1913 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Manhattan Island, New York, was purchased in 1630 by the Dutch for about $24. The deed of this sale, given by Indians, sold recently at auction at seventy times the original cost of the island. It was bought by George D. Smith. £>■ Edward Morris, head of the packing house of Morris & Co., and one of the three leaders of the meat industry of the country, diied at 6 o’clock Monday morning at his residence in Chicago. He had been ill for a long time.