Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1919 — Bagdad Is Important as a Distributing Center. [ARTICLE]

Bagdad Is Important as a Distributing Center.

Attention is directed to the importance of Bagdad as a. distributing center for cotton and woolen textiles. Bagdad supplies the Tigris valley as far north ’as Mosul and vicinity, also the Euphrates valley to the northwest as far as Der-el-Zor. To the northeast very large quantities are sent into Persia via Kermanshah and Hamadan. All this business is supplied and controlled by merchants in Bagdad.