Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1916 — Dry Plates. [ARTICLE]

Dry Plates.

On a recent evening during a rainstorm, and while the downpour was heaviest, a man dropped one of numerous packages he was carrying, just as he crossed Meridian street, near the public library, and passed on, unaware of his loss. The incident was witnessed by many persons who had sought the shelter in the entrance to the library, and by many others watching the storm from the windows of the Board of Trade building. For fully ten minutes it lay in the rain, seemingly an object of much curiosity to those who had seen it tumble from the man’s arms. Then a young man in the Board of Trade building, urged on by his fellow-employees, braved the torrent, and snapping the package under his coat, rushed back to his office, the others crowding round him while he hastily removed the rain-soaked cover to inspect his find. This is what he read: “Photographic dry plates. Keep in dry place.” —Indianapolis News.