Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1920 — Chemical Glass. [ARTICLE]

Chemical Glass.

During the last half of the year 1917 we exported glassware for the first time in our history and for 1918 our total production was valued at $2,865,744. more than double what we used when we had to buy it abroad. At the present time glass is imported duty free if it is to be employed for educational purposes; and the state of the domestic glass industry is so good that congress is being urged to withdraw this preference, x