County Market Prices for Wheat to Potatoes
Listing of daily market rates by commodity including Wheat at 0.105 dollars per bushel and Corn at 0.30 per bushel, Bran 13.90 per ton, Hay 6.50 per ton, Flour 3.40 per cwt, Oats 25 cents per bushel, Hogs 3.40 per cwt, Cattle 3.00 to 4.40 per cwt, Butter 6.10 to 6.16 per pound, Eggs 12.5 cents per dozen, Sugar 16 pounds per dollar, Molasses 6.40 per gallon, Syrup 0.30 per gallon, Maple syrup 1.00 per gallon, Apples 1.60 per bushel, Bananas 18 cents per dozen, Oranges 1.23 to 3.5 per dozen, Potatoes 0.56 to 1.00 per bushel.
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Ehay Bas
Aban of Sane
Local paper offer for weekly and journal delivery
Short term promotion offers the WEEKLEY STA and the Courier Journal twice weekly for a year at one dollar prepaid. Tax not mentioned. The seller names Kinxgy and Turpin.
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Weekley Sta
The
Courier Journal
Dons Seek Pittsburgh-Quality Coal for Clean Fires
A brief note notes demand for coal of Pittsburg quality praised for clean burning and intense heat. The piece highlights the coal's long lasting combustion and broad appeal among buyers seeking superior fuel.
Paralyzed Witness Reveals Personal Details in Court
A courtroom exchange shows a witness, forty seven years old, single, admitting to wearing false hair for nearly thirty years. Counsel ends the testimony with a remark about her honesty, noting the directness of her statements.
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London
Dodson and Blobson Trade Schemes Over a Check
A Detroit Free Press joke about a man’s plan to stop his wife from going through his pockets. He fills his pockets with counterfeit money, the wife is caught passing it, and he presents a check instead. The humorous tale highlights a clever ruse to curb the habit.
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Dodson
Blobson
Detroit Free Press
Monitor and Torpedo Craft Descriptions Across History
The piece explains how monitors are low freeboard armored floating batteries with revolving turrets, comparing them to the Merrimac in Hampton Roads, and contrasts torpedo boats as swift attackers needing close approach. It also notes a torpedo boat catcher and discusses bluefish as aggressive predators, then a Troy area tale of a faith cure where a woman aids a lame man who receives a new cork leg.
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Hampton Roads
New York Tribune
Troy
Troy Press
Nervous Candidate for Priest’s Orders Provokes Bishop Humor
In an extempore sermon before Bishop Tait and Dean Stanley, a candidate for priest’s orders grew nervous and stammered I will drive my congregation into the converted and the unconverted. The bishop quipped there are only two of us better say which is which.
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Tait
Dean Stanley
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