Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1908 — MILL TO GIVE WEATHER FORECAST [ARTICLE]

MILL TO GIVE WEATHER FORECAST

At 5 O’clock Each Evening River Queen Hill Whistle Will Proclaim the Next Day’s i Weather. The Republican has just completed the printing of 15,000 advertising cards for fifteen merchants and business men, and a feature of the card is that each contains the weather signals, as indicated by whisle. The proposition was worked up here by an advertising solicitor named Loveless, who visits Rensselaer each year and always has some edvertising proposition worth its value. At 5 o’clock each evening the River Queen mill will blow the blasts for the ensuing 24 hours, and all you will-have to do to see what there is in front of you in the weather line is to listen to the whistle and then take out the little card and see what the blast indicates. The forecast is furnished each day to Alfred Collins, proprietor of the ihill, by the Chicago weather station and he will telephone them to the Republican office each afternoon and they will be published in the Daily Republican. The first thing to do is to get one of the cards and any of the following people will Bupply you with one: Willis Supply Co. H. F. King. Little Indian Cigar Co. Coen & Brady. The G. E. Murray Co. Long & Hardman. G. B. Porter. J. V. Collins. Jay W. Williams. Home Grocery. E. D. Rhoades. Hotel Rosey. The Farmers’ Loan and Abstract Co. Dr. F. A. Turfler. Fred A. Phillips. Listen for the blast at 5 o’clock each day.