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Newspaper

Bluefield Daily Telegraph

Location

Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 08, 1944

Page

14

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.

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.

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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
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