Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1918 — CARPET BAG AGAIN IN VOGUE [ARTICLE]

CARPET BAG AGAIN IN VOGUE

Scarcity of Leather Brings Back Ancient Satchel, Says Chicago Merchant. New York. —The high cost and shortage of leather will be responsible for a revival of the old-fashioned carpetbag, according to J. N. Daley, a leathermerchant of Chicago. Mr." Daley declares that the carpet bag already is appearing in some of the western cities he has just visited. They are proving popular, and he expects to see them in the East shortly. “The war,” says Mr. Daley, “is going to revive a lot of discarded'necessities of our forefathers. The carpet bag will be one of the first. The shortage of leather will eventually preclude the making of leather valises and grips if it continues, and there will be nothing else left but the old carpet bag—and it may prove just as serviceable as the more modern equipment.” .