Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1904 — Now Arms for Soldiers. [ARTICLE]

Now Arms for Soldiers.

Within three years tlie United States army nnd militia will be armed with the new Springfield magazine rifle. The hundreds of thousands of krag-jorgen-sen guns on hand will eventually have to be broken up as valueless.