Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1900 — Can’t Pronounce It. [ARTICLE]

Can’t Pronounce It.

The workingmen at the Cramp ship yards in Philadelphia are unable to pronounce the name of the great warship which they are building, tfc# Retvtsan, and call her the Bed Pheasant. the nearest approach they cat* make to the sound of the Russ:at* name. r