Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1894 — New Use For Photography. [ARTICLE]

New Use For Photography.

Indianapolis Journal. Photography played an important part in a suit at Cincinnati. The suit is one of local standing, involving the title' to 1,500 acres of valuable rarm lands. It is based on a deed made nearly seven ty-five years ago by the owners of the land, and turns on the point whether the deed had five signatures or only four. In order to test this question it was derided to have the deed photographed, and the clerk of the court was ordered to give the matter his personal supervision. For that purpose it was taken to Washington and submitted to an expert photograper of that city. The original deed, discolored and yellow with age, showed traces of four signatures and a space where there might have been a fifth, but no trace Qf it. The photographing was done in the presence of the clerk of the court who refused to let the deed go out of his sight. The negative revealed traces of the missing signature, and when it was en'.arged ten times the entire name became as plain as when first written. The Court pronounced the evidence conclusive, and the result will be the reversal of a former decision and a change in the ownership of the land. One Cent Gold Paper. Finer Sc.. 3c. 4c. a bolt. 100 samples all prices for2c stamp F. J. Reed, Wall Paper obber, 193 W. Washington St.. Indianapolis, 1 >d.