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Show TIM HAT IS INNOVATION Designer Puts Forth Many Reasons Why It Should Be Accepted as an Article of Attire. The latest innovation in men's apparel ap-parel has been sprung by W. H. Whiting of Jonesboro, Me. It is a tin hat, with a band made of copper. He fashioned .the natty headpiece himself. him-self. It is not only very light in weight, but he claims that it is cheaper cheap-er than a straw "bonnet," lasts longer and is absolutely rainproof. Whiting's tin hat has a luster all its own, something that takes the shine off all other hats. It is more showy than Mambrino's helmet, made famous by Don Quixote. Whiting's hat is made of tin, common sheet tin, the same kind of tin that baked beans and sardines and tomatoes are put in. It is built on a 1915 model and no fashionable youth of the town can "put anything over" on him in the matter of style. It is neat, but not gaudy, a tin body with a copper band, not quite as brilliant as a ribbon with college colors, but more substantial and quite as attractive. At least, it attracts plenty of attention when Whiting weais it on the streets. |