Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1896 — Hats or Wocd. [ARTICLE]

Hats or Wocd.

An inventive genius has patented a machine which Is supplied with fine planing teeth. A leg of wood cut square is fed to it, and when the tog passes through It has furnished one hundred delicately thin strips of wood. Their length, of course, is that of the log. It is claimed that these when moistened can be woven much more readily than straw and nuke,aa durable a hat. . The Inyentof saysit ig twice as light as straw, and that, because of its easier manipulation and. cheaper cost, it will supersede the straw now used for the construction of headgear. r