Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1917 — POSTER OF 1862 IS FOUND [ARTICLE]

POSTER OF 1862 IS FOUND

Call for Union Army Volunteers Bobs Up in an Old Grandfather’s Clock. Hidden away for many years in the interior of a grandfather’s clock, and its hiding place forgotten long ago, a poster, dated 1862, was discovered accidentally when the clock, which has been in storage in Los Angeles, was removed to the home of its owner, Mrs. Edward Clippinger of Inglewood, Cal., says an exchange. The poster opens in big type, with “Hurrah! Hurrah!” The second line reads: “Now is the time to enlist.” It was printed in Rockford, Winnebago county, Illinois, and is signed by Lieut. H. C. Barker, who calls attention to the fact that his company is recruited more nearly to full strength than any other in the country, and hence bids fair to carry off. the S4OO prize offered by Rockford citizens to the first com- , pany fully recruited. _ The feature of the poster is the American eagle, with wings outspread and displaying the legend: “Union and Liberty; Now and Forever!”