Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1917 — JUST FACTS [ARTICLE]

JUST FACTS

One-half of all the girls between sixteen and twenty years of age in New York state work for wages. Citric, tartaric and sulphuric acids are to be manufactured at Messina, Sicily. Sicilian fruit growers are financing the venture. Oil pressed from copra, the dried meat of coconuts, is rapidly replacing animal fats in the manufacture of artificial butters in Europe. A school of aviation will be established in Lima, Peru.' The government has passed a law providing for an annual appropriation of $24,335 for its maintenance. A company of Japanese capitalists has started a plan to manufacture egg products at Tsingtau, China. Sales will be made almost exclusively to the American market. Swiss dairy cattle breeders have discontinued the feeding of oil cake to their stock because of the difficulty of obtaining this food, which was formerly Imported from France. An idea of the enormous extent of electrical industries may be gained from the fact that their annual income equals the total annual expenditures of the United States government. A radio station has been installed by the United States lighthouse service and is in operation at the Cape St. Elias light station, Alaska, now under construction. The call letters are NLQ.