Prices Then and Now World War One Shopping Snapshot
A wartime price list shows a shopper could buy 60 pounds of sugar 48 pounds of flour 10 pounds of meal 4 pounds of lard 13 pounds of ham 2 pounds of butter 8 pounds of beans for 35 55 dollars. Comparison notes reveal different modern equivalents and cost structures.
What 35 55 Will Buy You Now In World War I Style List
The notice lists seven featured items with wartime style pricing and shows extra merchandise offered for the same 35 55 total. It details quantities for sugar flour meal lard beans oatmeal coffee salt tomato soup spinach tomato juice grapefruit juice pancake flour beets peas and related can sizes.
Local Bluefield area merchants advertise in Treasury notice
A dense listing of Bluefield W V area businesses and firms sponsors a Treasury Department War Advertising Council notice. The page names many shops, banks, bakeries, grocery stores, service firms, and local offices spanning Bluefield to Matoaka and Richlands with contact numbers and street addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Treasury
Treasury Department and
War Advertising Council
Message from the Front warns against price jumps
A wartime appeal urges Americans to keep ceiling prices steady to avoid inflation after the war. Grocers post ceiling price lists and buyers probe for accuracy while stressing shared duty to protect workers and families from rising costs.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Gord
Era Group
OPA
America
Kresge
Bluefield Produce & Provision Co. Food Distributors
Black Diamond Collection Co
Bluefield
W. Va
Beckle Bluefield News Agency
Dial
Stewart Street
Breckenridge
Flist National Bank
Souilding
Bluefield, W. Va
Brunswick Smoke Shop
Princeton Avenue
Burgess Electric Co
Land Street
U. D. Carter
Carter Motor Co
International Trucks
McCarthick Deering
Somme
Clarks Stores, Inc
Community Savings and Loan Company
Raleigh and
Bland Streets
Citizens
Ray Evans
City Warehouse Co
Binefield Avenue
A. W. Cox Department
Federal and
Raleigh Streets
Cole’s Greenhouse, Inc
Bland Street
Kew Bee Bakery
Greenbrier Street
Isadore Cohen Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada
Fred P. Edwards Co, Peery Building
Sortified Public Accountants
Effron’s
Army & Navy
Eley Realty Company
L. D. Feuchtenberger Bakeries, Inc
Butternut
Jess Franklin Dry Cleaning
Federal &J. Frank's Bakery
Bravefield Avenue
Fiat Top National Bank
F. BD. J. C. Franklin's
Flat Top
Bradmann Budg
Fuqua Electric
A. H. Henderson
J. L. Jennings
C.P.A
Peery Building
Jimmy's Restaurant
Kat Furniture Co
W.R. Keesee & Co., Inc
Dodge—Plymouth Mademoiselle
Sir May Denton
McMullin Grocery Co
Bluefield Avenue
Mercer Funeral Home
Montcalm
Mill's Food Market Dial
Mid-City
Mick Or Mack Bradmann
Monte Vista Park Cemetery
Beautiful
New Park Grill
North Street
New National Cleaners and Dyers
Owl Cleaners
U-Tote M and
Save” O. K. Furniture Co
Peddock Grill
Rinceton Avenue
Iaaly- Wisgly
B& C
Pinnacle
Federal Street
R. H. Powell
Rose
Carol
Royal Cafe
Sample Shoe Store
Shaman’s, Inc
The
Union Store
Unique Cleaners
Wythe Avenue
P. F. Wallace
Bramwell Road
Ira A. Watson & Co
Warlick Furniture Store “Across the
Wer
Eagle Coal Sales Co
Gumecal Bank Buiding
Cee Water Services
White's Pepper Station
Bland Greet
Wilson's
West Virginia Business College
Commerce
Young Men's Christian Ass'n
Transportation Department
Roanoke Street
Princeton, W. VA
Suena Electric
Winkler Stokers
Mercer Street
Coker Grocery
Mercer Ee
Taine
Mullin’s Market
Postoffice
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co
Mercer and
Walnut Streets
Piedmont Stores, Inc
Princeton Bank & Trust Co
F. D
Princeton Furniture Co
Mercer St
Snead Department Store
Virginian Maytag Company
Princeton—Welch
Bluefield, W
V. W. Watters
Jeweler
Western Auto Associate Store
E. Clyde Bourne
Freeman, W. VA
Buckeye Coal & Coke Co
Turkey Gap Coal & Coke Co
Sol Kaufman
Matoaka, W. VA
Murphy Insurance Cies, Inc
Murphy, President
Matoaka and Pineville, W. Va
Richard Company
Peggy's
Princeton
Kimball & Loader
Matoaka
Tazewell, VA
Clinch Valley Lumber & Supply Co
Jewell Ridge Coal Corp
Richlands, VA
Patsy Warner General Mosse
Bluefield, VA
Bank of Graham Member F. C
C & C Food Market
Key's Planing Mill Co
Neel Cash Grocery
Graham
New Graham Phermecy
Virginia Avenue—Phone Neel Bottling Co
Royal Crown Co
Pet Dairy Products Co
Platnick Bros
Quality Cleaners
Stewart Fuel & Supply Co
Arista
Weyanoke Coal & Coke Compaen
Weyanoke” Pocahontas Coal