Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1908 — No Steam for Mr. Fritts. [ARTICLE]

No Steam for Mr. Fritts.

No more steam explosions for Mr. Fritts. He has bought a new peanut roaster to take the place of the one that blew up last week and it arrived today. The propel’er that turns the new machine does not run by steam, it winds up like a clock and when it runs down all you have to do it "wind ’er up again.'* If the spring breaks it won’t knock out a plate glass or two and is not liable to wreck the machine. The roaser part will be heated by a gasoline jet just like a gasoline stove Ttye spring that operates the machine will run it long enough to complete a roast. Then Mr. Fritts may imagine that he is cranking a $5,000 automobile as he winds it up. It may require more exertion on the part of the new proprietor but there will be no danger of another explosion. The new machine is at work,at his booth on the streev and will be during the fair.— Delphi Herald.