Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1891 — Local Industry. [ARTICLE]

Local Industry.

£poch. Caller— Where’B your fatherP Urchin—He’s shinglin’. Caller—The barn? Urchin—No, Tommy. Progress, It is very important in this age of vast material progress that a remedy be pleasing to the taste and to the eye, easily takeu, acceptable to the stomach and healthy in its nature and affects. Possessing these qualities, Syrup of Figs is the one perfect laxative and most gentle diuretic known, Four Things Done Best by Hand. Picking cotton, coupling cars, milking cows and spanking babies are four branches of industry with which the inventive genius of the American people has long struggled in vain. James Dick, of Canton, was run down by an engine; he laid flat on the track and as the engine passed over him he grasped the eccentric rod. The engine was stopped and he was taken out none the worse, save that his black hair had turned perfeotly white.