Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1919 — DIG UP BOMBS 45 YEARS OLD [ARTICLE]

DIG UP BOMBS 45 YEARS OLD

Zinc Container Found in Brazil Was Wrapped in a New York Newspaper. —- Buenos Aires. —During the making of the excavation for a building at Bahia, Brazil, a zinc box containing four dynamite bombs was unearthed, says a dispatch to the Razon from Bahia. The bombs apparently had been buried nearly a half century, as they were wrapped in a copy of the New York Weekly Bulletin of the year 1874. c/ A 12-inch gun disposes of half a bale of cotton at every shot,