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! will be in cnarge 01 me iunerai.I A letter written July 2, 1863, in I Eaglevillc, Harrison county, Mo., by j ! Aqullla C. Barber has drifted into the j hands of an Atchison man. Eagle- j ville is about 90 miles northeast of j Atchison. The Atchison man, in read-j ing the letter, thought parts of it, j written so near here, 65 years ago,I might be of Interest to Atchison peo-! pie. Mr. Barber, who was 72 years old , | j when he wrote the letter, said times j ! were good; that horses, mules, cattle,/1 sheep and hogs could be sold for cash; i I steers were $2.75 a hundred; hogs, j $2.25 a hundred; sheep, for from $2 j to $4 a head; corn, 20 cents a bushel;1 oats, 25 cents a bushel. Mr. Barber wrote there was no wheat for sale. It had been very dry and people had.j plowed up their wheat and oats. Mo- |c : lasses sold for 40 cents a gallon; cof- je lee 40 cents a pound (which is the [a price of good coffee today); sugar 16 ,t cents a pound The most amazing , f ! thing Mr. Barber told of v:as the price It of hams. He said hams sold for 3 N cents a pound, and that a 12-pound t ham could be bought for 35 cents. He Ic wrote that he and Ids wife had gone * to St. Joe with bacon and wood, and that It was distressing to see the deserted farms along the way. He said his wife had 60 yards of woolen chain worked, and would commence weaving cloth within a few days.cJdccer
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Atchison Weekly Globe
Atchison, Kansas, US
Thu, Oct 18, 1928
Page 2
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Alvin T.
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