Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1914 — Enormous Demand for Matches. [ARTICLE]

Enormous Demand for Matches.

The consumption of meMhifti has reached amazing proportions. According to the Lancet, about 18,000,009 gross of boxes are consumed per annum, 68 per cent, of whiob were of the “strike anywhere” and 37 yar cent of the safety variety. This is 2 £92,000,000 boxes and more than 000 matches. Friction matches were first used in 1833.