Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1917 — Welbourn, the Science Man [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Welbourn, the Science Man

> K ‘T'-NS p-ro-hl -ed with rays E .f light, burning h les through .* . a_plfi’v of iron with fire built with a <■»!.■■ of iee. and the famous Bremau Monorail car that defies .grav-J ity. Th -e are some' of the things demonstrated in Reno Welbourn's wonderful lecture. ‘J-odern Miracles.’ It is as j

strange as a page torn out of the ‘Ara- j biaii Nights/ as interesting as a fairy | taler and proves anew that truth is j stranger than fiction. Reno Welbourn ■ made the dreams of Jules Verne be-1 come realities' before the eyes of his audience and nothing seemed longer to : be impossible." —The New York World. Mr. Welbourn was recently made a

member of the New York Academy of Science because of his Chautauqua work in popularizing things that are usually of the laboratory. In the above picture he is shown knocking down a pile of blocks by means of .a shadow. Mr. Welbourn wil| deliver his science lecture here the fifth night of the Chautauqua.