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Show COST OF LIVING IN 1797. Market Report In First Issue of Ncn York Advertiser. A copy of he first Issue of the New York Commercial Advertiser. ' dated Monday evening. Oct. 2. 1797, Is pos-sessed pos-sessed by It. Hums I.lnderman of Sy raruse, N. Y., hnvlng been hi his fnm lly for ner 10S yenrs. It Is n four-papn four-papn publlc-Mon, printed dally and p-.ti at $8 n ycr . Tho Prt Current gl- s the prlc- of enmtnod. os of more t an 100 years ago. Putter then sohl for It cents n pound, while beef ranged from $10 f $12 a barrel. Flour r iged all the way from TI.B0 to $S r barrel. Pli Iron wns quoted at ?0 u ?:i2.i0 a ton country bar at $87. BO to i'.Ki. the same refined nt 00 to $110, while rollc' Iron was 1l.iced at $150 o $155. Oik hoards wero quoted at $17.50 per M nnd North river pine was tho snme Nails cost 12 cents a p nnd. Brown sugnr wns fold nt 14 nr.l 18 cents n po -d, wh'to sugnr nt 10 nnd 18 cents bil lur and Unf s--?ar weluhed out at 27 and 2D cc-.l'- lespectlvely German steel was thon 14 cents a pound. |