Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — METAL BEDSTEADS. [ARTICLE]

METAL BEDSTEADS.

The Demand Ha. Increased Rapidly In the Last Few Years. The demand for metal bedsteads has increased very rapidly during the last few years, and more especially the last lew months, and the west is changing its reputation In this line of goods. Formerly the demand was almost exclusively for wooden bedsteads, and very few Iron and still fewer brass beds were sold west of the Mississippi, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Now, however, there is a steady call for good iron and brass bedsteads, as well as for lower-piiced grades. St. Louis is making a large quantity of furniture of every kind, and for some time has been manufacturing iron bedsteads -of very durable and popular pattern. Now, to meet the demand for artistic brass bedsteads a plant is being put in, and another important addition made to the already extensive manufacturing facilities of the city. One of the reasons of the great growth in the furniture business of the city is the increased friendly relations between St. Louis end Mexico. Some people think there is not much scope for trade with Spanish-American countries, but this sentiment is confined exclusively to those who have never been to Mexico or any other of the republics in which the Spanish language is spoken exclusively or extensively. One month spent in any of these countries will oonvince the most skeptical that the United States ought to have nine-tenths of the trade of these prosperous communities, and that it can have it for littio more than the logical asking.