The Pantagraph announced on this date that the P H MaGirl company would be sending stock to a new customer -- in Shanghai, China. Because the delivery of goods from Europe was interrupted by the war, the Chinese had to seek other suppliers. The MaGirl company was planning to establish an agency in China in hopes of establishing more business relations there. PH MaGirl was a foundry that made furnaces and boilers.
The following day another news article pointed out that prices of different materials were going to affect local businesses negatively. Bloomington dealers were facing higher prices for brass, copper, and electrical fixtures due to the demands of the war. Because local dealers had old stock on hand they could sell at old prices, but once that stock was gone, they would increase the retail prices to reflect their costs.
On November 22, 1915, the Pantagraph editor published a column that addressed the effects of the war as well. The U S was enjoying a period of economic growth due to the war:
The Country's tremendous exports due to a large degree, of course, to the European war, also tend to mark the return of prosperity in the United States. Exports for September amounted to $300,000,000, almost double the figures of a year ago, while for the nine months ending with September, the exports amounted to a total value of $2,532,485,167, an excess of over a billion over the corresponding period last year.