Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1898 — The Picture Projecting Machine. [ARTICLE]

The Picture Projecting Machine.

The picture projecting machine is one of the novel but sure features for the Fourth here. On a vast piece of canvass. 40 feet square, stretched over the front of the court house, a series of moving pictures will be shown. This feature, which is mentioned in the large advertisement elsewhere, will alone be worth coming some distance to see.

Will be a Great Day, Friends.

The parties who have been taking in the surrounding country and neighboring towns advertising Rensselaer’s comiug Fourth of July celebration, report that great crowds will be here on that oc T casion. Well, Rensselaer is promising the people a great deal on that day, but unless something very untoward occurs, like a rainy day, every promise made will be carried out. Warner's spldiers will drill; Halstead’s rough riders will sham fight and cavort; the balloon will go up and the parachute will oome down, with the daring aeronaut performing strange feats on a bicycle far up in the circumambient ether; the picture projecting machine will portray wienl wonders on a mighty sheet of canvass; the flower of Delphi and Rensselaer’s sportive youth will contend for the mastery on the diamond field, and in hob-uail bedecked shoes; while “everybody dances” at Roberts’ umbrageous and flower strewn bowery hall. The bicycle parade, the races and the sports, will all be there as promised. Also good speaking, and fine musio without limit.