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American Fabrics Abroad

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
September
Year
1876
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

'An American manufacturer, now in England, writes home that "the unquestioned superiority of American cotton fabrics over English warrants the attempts by American weavers to introduce their wares into the Eaglish home market. Tüe -wholesale jobbers and retailors of Glasgow, Edinbnrgh, Manchesfer, Liverpool, London, Belfast and Dublin all expressed to me an opinión favorable to our fabrics, and that they were the best to wear, while none placed them below the standard of the English. Manchester has lost all the ! colonies on coarse cotton yarns used in domestic weavingwith wool. American cotton and the American style of manufactnring command the entire market in these colonies for that article. A Glasgow jobber admitted the fact, andadded that -we were curtailing his orders for sheetings and shirtings in the Cañadas and West Indies." This is Great Britain now, and the fauts show that our exporta o manufacturad cottoua have a ! irong foreimj hold already. They arè being introcraoed iuto África, A',

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Old News
Michigan Argus