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Matches

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
October
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Matches

it is estimated that we use annually

in the United States over 90,000,000,000

matches. These indispensable little

articles were first used in this coun-

try less than seventy years ago, and at

that time a box containing twenty-five

was sold for 25 cents. Imagine, if you

please, matches at one cent apiece!

To-day we buy 1,000 for five cents, and

Col. Wallace Downs has a new ma-

chine which may put them on the mar-

ket at half that price. -- New York

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