Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1901 — The New Century Today. [ARTICLE]

The New Century Today.

This is the first day of the 20th Century. The beginning of a uew year is always an impressive event but how much more is the beginning of a new century. And especially a century that such wonderful and surprising discoveries and developements as arf ex* pected in the century that follows the 19th The world is no# in such a full tide of progress ihat its forward movement must keep on. The man who, 100 years ago, could have foreseen and proclaimed the wonders of the 19th century would have been counted crazy. It is no# different however, for the world 'is moving now, as it was not in 1801 and most wonderful thkigs for theduture can now be predicted, and no one think the prophesy unreasonable.