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Show WORLD'S GREA1 FUR MARKET Russian Traders Gather Annually at IrbU In Siberia. j The great fur market of tho worlds i Is hold annually in Irblt in Slborla, It lios 1,000 miles caBt of Moscow and tho Russian traders havo to crost tho Ural mountains to got to it Every year tho fur merchants hav (f adventures enough In trying to reacb k Irblt In tlmo to till a wholo library of - -iS romantic stories If thoy would only jjf7 toll them. But It has boon their bueW t noss all their lives, so thoy think , nothing of It, and they havo no tlm to spin yarns, for ns soon aa thotf havo bought their furs In Irblt they , must hasten back to Russia again tqi t proparo them for further salo nnd B. then thoy usually hurry to Leipzlc ln f, Gormany, which, In addition to being f the great book-selling center pf Eu- g f ropo, is also tho biggest fur market .ib of tho world wn-t of Russia. ; |