The Price of Thread Reduced
A brief report that the Coats thread manufacturing firm cut its prices by a fifth, a small note on global commerce from 1895.
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San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895 · Page 1
1 min readGlasgow, March 22.
Glasgow, March 22.—J. & P. Coats & Co., the Scotch and American thread manufacturers, have reduced the prices of their products by 20 per cent.
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