Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1918 — AMERICANS BUYING DIAMONDS. [ARTICLE]

AMERICANS BUYING DIAMONDS.

Among facts disclosed in the investigation conducted by the council of national defense to l?arn the buying trend in civilian trade during the war are a decided increase in sales of small diamonds and a falling off in sales of sizes from one-half carat upward. This is attributed to the great Increase in price and the tendency of people to buv diamonds by price alone; that Is, they have, perhaps, $75 or SIOO to put in a stone, and it brings them a much smaller jewel than the same amount would procure a year or two ago. Watches a|e In great demand, especially wrist watches, which have been enormously popularized by the war.