Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — This Is Cheap Jewelry, Surely. [ARTICLE]

This Is Cheap Jewelry, Surely.

Much of tho choap Jewelry worn by colored people in the South is manufactured in New England and sold by tho hundred gross. The use of machinery lias boon so extondod in Ihis manufacture that tho product costs very littlo moro than the raw material. Rings cost tho manufacturer only a fraction of a cent and elaborate jewels only a few cents each.