Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1916 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

SCRAPS

The famous Stephen Girard estate is now valued at $32,000,000. There are 2,603,766 persons of German birth in the United States. Russian saving banks have received $1,750,000,000 since the war began. .

More than 40 thoroughfares in London have unmistakeable German names. About 100,000 persons are engaged in the meat packing industry of the United States. Italian state railways are gradually increasing their number of electric locomotives. About 15,000 tons of paper and

paper board are manufactured every day in the United States. San Francisco s exposition receipts totaled $12,524,000, of which $4,715,523.05 was taken in at the gates. Venice has supplied its fire department with steam driven engines carried on petroleum propelled motorboats.