Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1917 — SOME POSTSCRIPTS [ARTICLE]

SOME POSTSCRIPTS

By means of a secret process a french scientist converts flowers, fruit and even animal tissues Into metal. A Minneapolis inventor’s adjustable road scraper has been designed to serve equally well as a snow plow. An entire notebook or a single sheet of paper is held equally well in a new copyholder -for typewriters in which the copy 18 advanced as desired by •fessing a lever.

One end of a tool invented bv a Frenchman for smoothing rough edges of collars and cuffs serves as a buttonho'e opener. An English inventor’s safety suit for aviators is covered with parachutelike pockets and the entire garment can be inflated to help break the force of a wearer’s fall> An Inventor in Nebraska has patented wire netting covered frames to cover open automobiles to catch hats, veils, or other articles that otherwise might be blown away.