Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — Modern Speed in Hatmaking. [ARTICLE]

Modern Speed in Hatmaking.

By the use of mechanical devices now employed it is said that a workman can make the “bodies” for 400 hats a day. By the hand process ha could only prepare four or five. ,