As many as 2000 rag-nickevs find em- ! ployment nlwut Die streets of Now York. ; They are mostly Italians, who have disnlaml the Irish unci Germans who used to do the work. Their gatherings of rags are valued at. j;i")0,000 u year. Tho i hand-cart dealers .do a business of . ,tG,(K)o,flflo a year. The iigsrep.ile ing . trade of that city amounts to .Ki.000,000 ; a year. A prominent dealer estimates . tho number of r.u'-dcakre at | eight , Jjiundrodj
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1338, 16 January 1912, Page 5
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75Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1338, 16 January 1912, Page 5
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