Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1903 — How Flags Wear Out. [ARTICLE]

How Flags Wear Out.

It costs momcy to tly even two small tlags every day in the year. The two .*mail ones ou the east and west fronts oi t’le Capitol, each about three yards long, "lrich is small for such an Immense . -ucture as the oapitol, fray out so fast ; tit costs SIOO a year to replace tin They are darned every day and on ndy days probably two or three tlnu Eveu with all these economics SIOO -orth of fine wool fibats off into the u.r in such fine particles that never a traee of It can be found even a r • foot of the two flagstaffs.—i it! lug Dispatch.