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Show AN. AaHERAQM: SUIU'MSR "About three years ago whi I wai suffeilnr from n severe "old en my lungs hitu cuuitlied mst of I'iu time nlebt and day, I tried' n Vo'ilo of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and wan surprised at the proinptnfss with which It savo ma roller," wilf"j Mrs James Brown, Clark M'.IU, ,N. Y Many another has been surprised and ylese4 with the prompt r-llef ai'- In 10H, tcb year the last nianufac-' turcrs census was taken, therg wcro I 17S.000 manufacturing establish? menls reported. TJie census bureau expects about 300,000 establishments to be listed In. 1920. I Tho ingenious machines used by tho CensuB Bureau to count, sort and tabulato tho information gathered by tho censhs enumerators nro the product pro-duct of tho bureau's own laboratory Tho sorting machines will tako caro of 300 cards per minute, tho counting count-ing machlno can do 500 cards n minute min-ute and tho tabulating machlno Is cpablo of handling 400 cards each mlnuto. It required eighteen months to complete tho enumeration work fo: tho first decennial census In 1790, In 1920 tho Census Bureau plans to rompleto tho enumeration work for tho entire country In from two to four weoks and announco tho population figures in less than three months from tho date the"enumoratlon woik is complot'ed. - 1 1 |