Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1917 — FROM NEAR AND FAR [ARTICLE]

FROM NEAR AND FAR

Spain will Import wheat Glasgow has women lamplighters. Spain has 4,024,928 acres of barley. French railways employ 6,700 women. Italians make thread from nettle fiber. United States has 2,000,000 war gardens. United States has 2,001,000. acres In peanuts. Germans number 2,249,000 in the United States. Costa Rica last year grew 900,000 pounds of tobacco on 2,700 acres.