Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1919 — GAS MASKS BEING PUT TO NEW USE. [ARTICLE]

GAS MASKS BEING PUT TO NEW USE.

Gas masks are in great demand for threshing and shipping the wheat infected with Australian “take-all.” , All the grain is so saturated with formaldehyde that the workers can not stand the fumes. It is being shipped to the United State Grain corporation at New York, where all grain from infected districts in Indiana and Illinois is being held pending investigation.