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Silk Umbrellas Common

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
March
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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The manufacture and consumption of silk ambrollas is steadily on the increase in this country. To see a cotton umbrella in aae in the large cdties is about as rare an occurrence now as the sight of a silk umbrelLa was thirty years ago. The rapidly increasing wealth of the country, together with the great reduction in the cost of silk fabrica, are the main causes which have effected this change. While the majority of the silk umbrellas in use are made of a texture of silk and cotton, the increase is in the consumption not only of all silk umbrellas, but also of the very highest and flnest grades. One of the umbrella inanufacturers of this city says he believes that the day is not far distant when a well dressed American will not be seen on the street with a cheap, shabby or cluinsy ranbrella, but will deern a fine, close rolling, natty one as mnch a personal

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Old News
Ann Arbor Argus