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Show PUTTINO UP POSTERS. j A ton of flour, and twenty barrels of wa- ' ter are required to make 1000 gallons of paste used each week in sticking up the posters advertising the theaters in Kansas City. The posters themselves - are no small item, as it requires four wagon loads of them to cover the fifteen miles of billboards lb. the city. Fifteen men are employed constantly to changeg the posters post-ers each week. The paste of which so much is needed is made in barrels, each of which holds fifty gallons. About 100 pounds of flour Is placed in each, which la then filled with water and heated to boiling with a steam pipe. It is carried around for use in big boxes, which fit In the back of the wagon used, and which hold a barrel and a half. The paste must be used while it Is hot, or else It thickens and spoils. The bills that are pasted up each week soon accumulate to such an extent that they are in the way. They are then torn off with crowbars crow-bars and sold as fuel. ' They burn very well and bring nearly the price of cord wood. The busy day of the bill poster is Wednesday, for then the advance notices of tha coming attractions are put up. Extra Ex-tra men are hired for that day, and the work is carried on till late at night. The work of putting up the posters is very simple, as each section is numbered. The men who work at it soon become experts and command good wages, earning often as high at $3 a day. Kansas City Jour- L . ' |