| Show IMPROVED SHOE ALWAYS DRY ANTI CHEAPER TOO the philadelphia ledger describes a newly invented shoe ahoe which is said to be a very deci decided e ed improvement on the healy heavy inconvenient and unhealthy india rubber over shoe the sole is made entirely of gutta percha otherwise being like the ordinary leather shoe the sole eole is applied to the upper part by pressure the inner sole and upper portion n hen stretched over the last laliot is first punctured by a punch the ile gutta percha in a soft state stale is a then pressed by mechanical mean means upon inner sole the material is forced through the holes and the shoe is then hid heid held r s if it had been pegged though more securely for the gutta percha fills entirely the pi punch in h holes and even forms a sort of rivet ilea head d on the inside of the shoe these shoes the ledger is informed ca can n be made thirty i y per ce cent at clie cheaper aper than the leather soled shoes the ibe price of leather hai ing recently gone up very high they are ser to I 1 wear and are ore of course coarse entirely impervious t to 0 water they may be worn like leather ieather lather lither soled shoes at any season of the year without i inconvenience ex |
