Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1902 — Babcock Presents a Knife, [ARTICLE]

Babcock Presents a Knife,

Washington dispatch: Representatives Babcock and Overstreet of the Republican congressional committee called on the president to arrange to keep in touch with him during the congressional campaign about to open. Mr. Babcock presented the president with a beautiful pearl paper-knife made from a pearl clam shell. The “pearl” clam is a product of the Mississippi river in Mr. Babcock’s district, where there are three or four factories for making pearl buttons and kindred articles from the shells.