WHAT WOMEN BUY
AMERICANS’ PURCHASES CHICACO, March 1. Everyone has always known that women spent a lot of money, but it took a woman to reduce, it; to figured. Mrs. Christine Frederick, noted writer and lecturer, told 70(1 members of the’ Chicago Retail Advertising Institute at a meeting here that *tlie vvbihV’it of tin’ United States spend fit!,Odd,Odd annually. TJio women alone, according to Mrs Frederick, buy: •IS per cent, of all drugs. !hi per cent, of all drygoods. 87 per cent, of all raw market products. 48 per cent, of hardware. ■1! per cent, of automobiles. Women, also, she said, buy (ill per cent, of men’s neckties, and assist in buying a large percentage of his other attire.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17233, 12 April 1930, Page 16
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119WHAT WOMEN BUY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17233, 12 April 1930, Page 16
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