Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1917 — BREAK SEVEN DISHES A YEAR [ARTICLE]

BREAK SEVEN DISHES A YEAR

Going to Rubbish Heap Faster Than They Can Be Made in United States: Cleveland, O.—They’re breaking dishes faster than they can make them in the United States and the other countries are too busy warring to make pottery. Every man, woman and child in this country breaks on the average seven dishes apiece annually. Over 700,000,000 dishes a year are broken by irate married folk and others, who drop them accidentally, and others who drop them on purpose to keep from washing them.