Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1916 — GETS RICH FROM FLY PAPER [ARTICLE]

GETS RICH FROM FLY PAPER

Patent Bought for $1 Made a Great Corporation Wealthy—lnventor Now Runs Restaurant. Portland, Ore.—The man who introduced sticky fly paper into the United States runs a restaurant in Portland and uses screen doors and electric fans to keep the flies away. His name is Henry Scheuffler. He learned to make sticky fly paper in Stuttgart, ’’Germany, ’ then came to America and started a bakery at Grand Rapids, Mich. He made a little of the fly paper to use in his windows. One day another German named Thum gave Scheuffler a dollar to learn how to make the sticky stuff. Thum patented it and started a factory. The big corporation of ’Thum Brothers is the result. Scheuffler spent his dollar and came West.