Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1918 — STATISTICAL MOTES [ARTICLE]

STATISTICAL MOTES

United States has 60,000 retailers of confectionery. Britain before the war had 100,000 retail dealers in candy. Germany’s war debt will exceed fifty billions of marks, without any Indemnities. Cleveland is said to have wasted 2,000,000 tons of coal in 1917 by indifferent methods of use. American Presbyterians plan to raise in the next five years $75,000,000 for reconstruction and social service. . '