Show penny groceries in new york A number nuin her of I 1 tallan sand germans hive have started penny groceries in part of now new york city populated by the poor pool and these places all seem acorn to be croope prosperous rous arid and thriving teu teti conti centi is thought by these groc grocers eira to lie be a 8 b big 19 bill and the investors of a quarter la is evidently re regarded asa millionaire re in conversation with it a atti and fit ex reporter a loading retis retail il grocer hai aard d there if is no doubt these penny grocers tire aro on thu the increase incie aae th they ay aru afo an evil aud the penny grocer is moally n ally the poor man 8 enemy instead of 0 his bis friend in the penny grocery tho poor r man an pays pay twice as much for bi hn if provisions in tile tho long run rim und doph doi hut tilt got get as quality as aa I 1 it f ho he bought them theal iu m lat modest odest quantities front from larger stores the penny gro corieri cries are stocked blocked with what the tha poor man Is ia likely to buy the quality a of atho the provisions is 13 not good the coffeo find and tin tea tire lire especially poor and the vegetables invariably stale many of tho panay groceries sell bad whiskey to their customer s but bat few allow it to be drunk drank on the tha premises I 1 an italian who keces keeps I 1 n pony pany gro aery in in south beulh fitt fifth avenue noar near B lerocker street gives tha follo following wip g list hill iia as an of df what can bo dono docto in in a penny grocery with a silver qa quarter tr chaw three ounce ol of coffee I 1 ong ounce at tea 1 athrel ounces of rice I 1 anaf of state bread I 1 mix hit sticks lucli of kindling wood I 1 three on long I 1 four old 1 I 1 three ounces og oc barly I 1 I 1 ounces or of brown 1 four of starch I 1 thin 1 itan alltis lar bar 1 enough forrice I 1 ainali sin ill teacup of black inola asin soLis I 1 11 II i 1 lr or of a yard at n la 1 Juaita rora pound Is cottle of coal noised 4 three 1 brei of lard 1 to nickitie pic kitie 1 I I 1 total 1 2 A swill i family can live 1 for a day on theae purchases the coffee will be ba sufficient tor for a big and the ten is n enough for two drawings the rice neo and raisins mako make a small pud ding the tha stale broad will serve for a weal men and hero is 11 enough sugar I 1 to sweeten the tea an and coffee T tha 0 onions potatoes and barley with the addition of a beef bone or pig piece e of mont meat and a ponny lunch of pot potherbs herbs e b 8 iv wll all make a stow or soup there is is enough soup soap to wash tho the dishes and scrub the childrens faces enough oil nod and wick to lust last till all night might a seattle scuttle 0 of f coa coal I 1 an and d wood to motile kindle the fire aro in in the morning thou thero there are aie jar lard and the be next t thing hing to but tor ter oleomargarine and the two good sized pickles for a r relish e lish the penny grocers buy small a stale t ale loaves for a halt half a cent each and retail them tit at A cent medium sized stale loaves cost coat them one and a half cents and sell at ab two cents end and large stale loaves joil jes they retail at three cents the coal they sell hell is sweepings screened and contains a good deal ot of slate elate 0 O G al IM |