Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1918 — HORSE MEAT SALES REPORTED INCREASING [ARTICLE]

HORSE MEAT SALES REPORTED INCREASING

New York. —New York but- . chers have begun to awaken to the fact that the threatened introduction of horse meat at low prices had not only become a reality but is promising to get an overwhelming welcome in the poorer quarters of the city. Already the beef butchers in localities where the horse meat shops have been established are beginning to feel a falling off in trade, and in one section are charged with showing their resentment by violence.