Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1918 — INTERESTING ITEMS [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING ITEMS

Crops of corn are being burned In Argentina because of a lack of ships |n which to export the cereal. Losses from fire in the United States increased over >40X100,000 last year, due to war conditions and the speeding up of industries. The anthracite coal strike of 1902 began May 12 and ended October 21. The employees involved numbered about 147,500. The estimated total loss was >26,210.000. J c

Building trades returns from 35 Canadian cities for a recent month indicate that employment decreased more than 42 per cent, as compared with the previous month, and over 46 per cent, as compared with the same month In 1917. > .- , The royal borough of Kensington, England, now maintains three communal kitchens, which serve excellent meals for'l2 cents. The menu is: Soup, 2 cents; fishcakes, 4 cents; halfportions of potatoes and cabbage, 2 ‘cents; corn flour mold, 4 cents. _