Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1893 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Where is My Boy To Night? A Startling Discovery in A Hay Stacks Last Tuesday, while Emerald Aldrich and his men were pressing! hay on. the Bergman farm, just northeast of town, occupied by James Creviston, they found in a haystack, a carefully wrapped package, which upon unwrapping they found to be. a book-agents’ canvassing book and prospectus of a work entitled “Story of the New World.” On ,one of the blank pages in the back part of the book, ruled for subscribers names and addresses, was written in a plain, but rather feminine looking writing, the following: NOTICE. NOTICE. To who ever finds this book: If you' will look 100 feet south and about 50 feet east, you will find the dead body of a man sft 11 inches high, dark, has smooth face, weight about 180, has on brown suit of clothes and is from Chester, 111. Write • description to newspapers at Chester and let them know that he died with his boots on. You will be fully repaid for your labors. For any further information inquire of The Secret Bond. All large cities. Hold post mortem and decide whether he died of love, heart disease, or bullet. At the spot indicated in the above, there is a rank growth of weeds and grass. A thorough search of the locality was made, but no dead body was found. On another blank page of the book is written the following: 0 Where is my wandering boy to-night. “Ask his mother.” and send the news to her at Chester, 111. How Perry died. On the first page is the following:

Property of P. H. Dore, Chester, 111. On the first of the ruled pages for subscribers’ names are the names and addresses of two persons, evidently subscribers* These have been scratched over with a lead pencil, but are still partly legible. Both addresses are numbers on Ashland Ave,, presumably Chicago. There is considerable other scribbling, but of an unconsequential character, scattered through the book. The finely torn fragments of a letter, very likely, from their appearance, from the publishers, appointing the agent, were found inside the book. It is a strange circumstance, all around, and even if it is a “fake” it is curious that a canvassing book that has been used in Chicago, by a party from Chester, 111., should have been fount}, with its peculiar not to say startling written contents, tucked in a haystack in Jasper county, Ind.