20 Oct 1899
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Newspaper
Cuba Advocate
Location
Cuba, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1899
Page
1
A city market list provides weekly prices for staples including butter eggs lard potatoes spring chickens hens old roosters turkeys flour stove weed and cord wood. Prices range from 80 cents to 1.00 per unit and noted per lb per bushel or per sack.
Readers learn of Sabbath schools at the Baptist and Methodist churches, weathered farm damage, purchases at Brown's store including sash ribbons and cabinet albums, and visits by regional figures. Several names appear including Moon, Davidson, Melton, Karney, Sensen, Wiruth, and Pulp a company.
Local ad lists items such as 25 cents for various foods and 1211 cents for butter and eggs while announcing the Great Rock Island's Colorado River train service starting January 15 with faster connections to Salt Lake City Portland and Northwest Pacific Coast points, claiming 66 hours to Portland from Cuba. The piece promotes pricing and travel changes with a bustling, promotional tone.
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