Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1918 — Can’t Afford ’Em Now. [ARTICLE]

Can’t Afford ’Em Now.

I “There goes a five-dollar hat,” said a man on,the u back platform,of a Pennsylvania , styeet, Car. recently, as his headpiece left him at Pennsylvania and Ohio* streets,and went sailing over (the, poat ofiice. i It- cavorted around in the aif, and 1 filially came down, almost within his reach, a* thd car stopped at New tork hlreet, hutl sudddiriy took another swirl .upward, find passed eadt 1 oyer.the . , ' ' J( ■ i fix seemed a .half high,” he says, Hint I decided t? follow it-for a while bn’the run. It Parted downward again, and T legged*-it up Massachusetts ave-, phW tWO squares from-' Ohio street, whert shine ofab had taught' it add J was lodklngTatound for a 'bareheaded mail.” foseir o£ssJhat Vas a newstms>er rnan, and hfA PwnCTsMb of a flve-dellar ha* by gaytog be^got;W. while at; college,..when.’h&».dad yyaa |baying expenses.-r-2ndlanapoUa htawa-.