Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1917 — HUMAN ADDING MACHINE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HUMAN ADDING MACHINE

New' Ybrk has produced a six-year-old human adding machine, who can give instantly the totals of formidable columns of figures, and who Is unable to distinguish one figure from the other. Hfe is Samuel-Jnngries, the thirteenth child of Mr. and Mrs. Tobias Jungries of New York. His peculiar gift was not revealed until a week ago when it was discovered by some of his companions of the neighborhood. Since then physicians and psychologists have examined him and have pronounced his feats as “marvelous.” N ,_i v In addition to his wonderful powers In adding up sums he has a most retentive memory and can remember the problems someone, has given him, days after he first worked them out