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Show Yes, there is somo disparity in the cost of living liv-ing nowadays nnd the figures ninety years ago. Also, there is considerable difference in the prices fanners received for their products. But then, maybe they didn't require much money In thoso dnys. An old "counter look" of nn Ohio store wns found recently. It contained figures of ninety yenrs back. Eggs then sold at four cents per dozen) butter, eight cents a pound; sjigar, ten cents n pound; pepper, fifty cents n pound; coffee, thirty-one cents a pound; ten,. Sl.CO a pound; bacon, six cents a pound; whisky, twenty-five cents n gallon; oats, fifteen cents n bushel; wheat, forty cents n bushel; corn, twenty-five cents n bushel; muslin, twenty cents and 37V cents n yard; calico, thirty-six cents nnd fifty cents a yard; flowered wallpaper, 4V cents n yard; salt, 2' cents a pound. |