Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — Where Kid Gloves Are Made. [ARTICLE]

Where Kid Gloves Are Made.

The center of the kid glove trade has always been at Grenoble, a mountain city of 55,000 people in France, when even the streets and public squares sing of gloves, as one of each Is named aftei Xavier Jouvin, a veteran in the manufacture of fine kid gloves. The raw skins manufactured here in a year are valued at $4,000,000. When made intc 15,000,000 pair Of gloves the value ie just doubled, and the making up of the skins gives erhplpyment to 30,000 people. . i- ; <4 .•<» . .‘ *•