Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1917 — Something New. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Something New.

Peru was the first country to add instruction in aviation to its public school curriculum. A new electric fan can be used on a desk or attached to a wall without changing any of its parts. Concrete floors can be made almost noiseless by covering them with heavy tar paper, attached by cement. European factories each week make about 16,000,000 pounds of artificial butter with coconut oil as a base. Separate wind shields for each of the two seats it contains features o new English motorcycle side car. A French scientist is trying to pre< vent fogs by floating small quantities of oil on rivers to check evaporation. Spring buffers hold new shade rollers in position in a window without the use of tools or marring, the wood< work. , Platinum deposits recently discovered in Spain are believed to be greater and richer than those of the Ural mountains, w’hich furnish the greater part of the world’s supply.

~~ And this is the truth a* I see it; Whoever cries out for peace, Must think it and live, it, and hg. it And the wars of the world will cease, * —Ella Wheeler Wilcox.