Matches
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
Press
Article
Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Argus-Democrat