Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1916 — ALL SORTS [ARTICLE]

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Of English invention Is a watch so mounted In a case that it can be tilted and laid on a table with the dial In an almost vertical position. Early In the present year an order for 130,000,000 pounds of copper was placed with American brokers on behalf of the allied nations in Europe. Replies to the Methodist Temperance society’s query show that the 482 dally papers In this country declining liquor advertisements in February, 1915, had In February of this year increased to 840. Robert H. Ramsey of German-' town. Pa., has spent 16 years composing a chess problem. Many years ago he undertook to construct a four-move study called “Ramsey’s Cage’’ and finally has realized hls ambition.