Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1919 — CARRIES UMBRELLA OVER TOP [ARTICLE]

CARRIES UMBRELLA OVER TOP

Doughboy From Massachusetts Said He Didn’t Want His Tin Hat to Get Rusty. Webster. Mass—Folks here are waiting to greet Private Stanley Karabash, the doughboy who “went over the top” carrying an umbrella. Karabash, in a letter to tils "home from a base hospital, says the-reason he carried the umbrella was to protect his “tin hat” from rain. He didn’t want the headpiece to get rusty, he said.