Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1917 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Advertising In the Street.

That the ingenuity of people In the Orient sometimes finds expression through thoroughly modern channels, says the August Popular Mechanics Magazine is demonstrated by a sprinkler, employed In Osaka, Japan, which writes advertisements in water on the roadway, as it Is drawn along by man power. Solidly mounted on the .axles of a two-wheel cart is a perforated drum, filled with water, which revolves with the wheels and, as it does so, traces Oriental characters along the thoroughfare.