Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1919 — A MAMMOTH GERMAN SHELL [ARTICLE]

A MAMMOTH GERMAN SHELL

Owned by Remington Man, Who lacked Up Same Near Metz. Fred Parker has on exhibition in Townsend’s window a brass shell that is some shell, sure. It stands 28 inches high and is 6 Inches in diameter, and Weighs 14 pounds. It is a German shell and had been fired. It is considered next to the largest made and when loaded cannot be lifted by any one man. The steel projectile extends 18 inches beyond the mtouth of the shell, and the charge has a range, as near as can be established, of about 35 miles. Mr. Parker picked it up at a point about- two miles from Metz, where one of the greatest battles of the war was foughtr and says he does not know of but one other that has 'been shipped to this country- A man ini Milwaukee has the other one. He moved it about with him considerable while there, until he could get where he could exipress It home. He sent it long before he left and it got here only last Friday. The express on the box containing tbe shell was about SB, but several times that amount would not buy the trophy now.— Remington Press.