Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1918 — TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES [ARTICLE]

TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES

Bolivia has built a road for automobiles that crosses the Andes mountains 17,000 feet above sea level. Since the war the number of Jews in Palestine has been reduced twothirds by hunger, sickness and distress. The richest ■woman in Japan is said to be Mme. Hone Suzuki, sole head of a shipping company that has made more than $100,000,000 since the war. Experiments with powdered peat for fuel have been so successful in Sweden that a plant for its production on a large scale has been established. Experts in'the employ of the government of Brazil believe that country can utilize its own coal by using gas producers in connection with stationary engines and briquetting it for locomotives. Between 1906 and 1916 the membership of city branches of the Young Women’s Christian association increased from 103,353 to 292,191; col- ■ lege branches, from 41,688 to 61,569; county branches, from none to 7,215; total, from 145,041 to 360,865.