FORTY MILLIONS FOR JEWELS.
'AMERICA'S EXPENDITURE AT CHRISTMAS. America's expenditure on jewels for Christmas gifts last year aggregated forty million. The secretary of the Jewellers' Board of Trade makes this estimate, which surpasses all previous records. The total purchases of jewels in 1911 is placed at £160,000.000, 25 per cent, of which were made, during December, presumably practically all for Christmas presents, What was probably the most expensive Christmas present to an American child last year was a. three-storey playhouse, costing £6000, given to Master Thornton Howard, the twelve-year-old son of the president of the Commonwealth Steel Company, of St. Louis. The building will bo constructed of brick on the Howard grounds and furnished with everything that could delight a boy's heart, including a swimming pool, a gymnasium, a bowling alley, a billiard-room, a theatre, and every other amusement for a twelve-year-old boy and his chums that an architect could devise.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14906, 3 February 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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151FORTY MILLIONS FOR JEWELS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14906, 3 February 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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