Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1906 — First Impressions. [ARTICLE]

First Impressions.

The Pilgrims had landed at Plymouth Rock. “The agricultural outlook is bilious,” they said, “but for the study of geology there isn’t a place on the whole blooming coast that can hold a candle to it.” Herewith they began collecting rocks, and their thrifty descendants have continued to do the same, even unto the present day.