Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1903 — Letter to Mr. B. 0. Gardner. [ARTICLE]

Letter to Mr. B. 0. Gardner.

Rensselaer , Ind., Dear Sir: If you buy paint by the gallon look out for short* meaOne of the paints for sale in your section has about 210 cubic inches a gallon. Takes 231 to make a real gallon. There are great business founded on ten per cent short. It is queer that a man or oon cern will expose hie or its naked ness so; but he does, and it does, Look out, But that isn’t all to look out for. Some give full meesure: and cheat in the quality. Whatdo you paint for, the looks? or to keep your house from rotting Both, of course, A big hotel man painted Devoe eight years ago; was going to paint it agait;—eight years is a good long time for a hotel, you know —struck a bargain, saved five cents a gallon missed: Devoe. Poor fellow! There isn’t an oz. of lead in his paint—we dont know how good or bad it is; but there isn’t any lead in it. “B. F. Fendig is Devoe Agent of Rensselaer.” Yours truly, F. W. Devoe & Co.