Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1918 — Inventions. [ARTICLE]

Inventions.

A craze for Invention is sweeping the country. Many a man who has never been able to Invent an excuse to land the wife for getting home late M now accomplishing wonderful tilings. Already 2,000,000 appliances for the destruction of U-boats have reached the patent office. One man hi.s evolved a brick boat, built entirely of brick from the keel to the crow’s nest. The chief value of this construction is that the brick boat will fool the wisest U-boats. It sinks as soon as it is launched and the U-boats are never able to find it.—New York Mail.