Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1916 — TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES [ARTICLE]

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The price of sugar was recently increased 25 per cent in Hungary. The army of Monaco, though sipall, was resplendent during peace times, hot-now that- war Is- under way hasbeen dissolved because the professional soldiers who composed it have all been called home and are fighting under the French or Italian colors, as the case may be, or drawn up in the Swiss contingent guarding the frontier.

The dissatisfaction of the railroad companies in the United States with the payments made to them by the government .lor mail haulage, is as nothing compared to ' the attitude of the British railroad* companies. The -British post office department ~diß%v : ered that for short haulage, up to about 125 miles, the motor truck or tractor Is far cheaper and better than the railway. For this reason the great bulk of British mail transfer over distances within 125 miles Is now made with trucks.