Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1916 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

In the last five years our national and state lawmaking "bodies have passed 62,500 laws. I t Sweet naval oranges 25c, 30c, 40c, 60c a dozen at Bomg Grocery. In some quarters it is held that Russia is the greatest single Jield in the world for new business. The Htjme Grocery has just opened" another barrel of their Silver Thread i saufer k-aut and it is very good.l Salt Was once use.l for mcnej? > i paying the soldiers. It was called “salemium,” hence the word salary. i . . The latest in Christmas photos at Parker’s studio. A barge built for harvesting kelp on the Pacific toast gathers up about 500 tons of seaweed on a trip. If you have beauty, we take it; if ‘ you haven’t, we make it. —Parker’s Studio. German iron founders arc. trying to increase the use of furnace slag in place of gravel and crushed stone in concrete. A Christmas remembrance they al- | ways appreciate —a photo by Parker. The total number of trees in the streets of Paris is 86,000, and of (these 26,000 are planertiees, 16,000 chestnuts and 14,006 elms. _ Of course you are going to have a Christmas photo taken. Let Parker make them. What is said to be the largest windmill in the world, a steel one fifty feet in diameter, has been erected 4n Holland for draining a tract of land. Father, mother, sister, brother and the blessed baby, all have their Christmas photos taken at Parker’s. Only about one-tenth of the vast amounts of iron orc mined in Spain annually are utilized at homo because of the scarcity of native coal. High cost of living (giving) not included in Parker’s photos. • „ Gold, silver, copper, quicksilver or mercury, iron, nickel, tin, zinc, lead and aluminum are the ten mindtais generally to be found in every house. Your friends can buy anything you can give them but your photograph. Have it taken at Parker’s. To assist surgeons a small but I powerful electric. lamp has been ini vented, supplied with current by a dry battery, and held and directed by its user’s teeth.