GLIMPSE INTO A DEPARTMENT OF THE PORCELAIN FACTORY IN LATVIA'S CAPITAL TOWN
Latvia's industries suffered heavily during the Great War. Factories were destroyed, the plant evacuated, and the industrial workers robbed of their livelihood. But unceasing efforts in the work of reconstruction have brought about a genral improvement in the Latvian industrial world, and with the resumption of production the whole aspect of the economic life of the country has changed. Before the Great War the large porcelain factory at Riga produced a colossal amount of ware; it is now flourishing anew and before long will undoubtedly attain its pre-war level.
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PEOPLES OF ALL NATIONS: THEIR LIFE TODAY AND THE STORY OF THEIR PAST BY OUR FOREMOST WRITERS OF TRAVEL, ANTHROPOLOGY & HISTORY (in 7 volumes), editor J. A. Hammerton, published by the Educational Book Co., London, 1920. Subsequently published as both a 7 volume set (1922) and subscription series (1922–1923) by the Amalgamated Press, London.