Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1912 — Queueless Chinese Demand Hats. [ARTICLE]

Queueless Chinese Demand Hats.

The wholesale cutting of queues, which was a consequence of the revolution in China, cooled the heads, at least in a literal sense, of the Chinese to such a degree that there arose an enormous and unprecedented demand for head covering. The native hat industry, being but little developed ,was unable to keep up with the demand made by the shears, and Japan, where the industry is flourishing, was flooded with orders. The Japanese factories have been working night and day for months to fill the unexpected need of the new republicans.