Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1914 — Sign Causes a Near Riot. [ARTICLE]

Sign Causes a Near Riot.

A sign in the window of a grocery store at Forty-third and Butler streets that sugar was selling 25 pounds for |l.lO caused a rush of women. Men working at night or going to work in the early morning had read the sign and hastened to tell their wives of thesale. Three hundred women congregated, seeking opportunity to buy. The storekeeper found that a joker had been at work. Wednesday evening he had painted a sign, “Sugar, 25 pounds f 1.90.” Some one had erased the loop from the figure nine. —Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.