Market Prices and Produce Trade Promises
A fragment notes the market offers produce at the market price in exchange for goods. It claims prices are low and that food costs are rising elsewhere, while traders aim to keep prices as low as possible.
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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1900
Page
4
A fragment notes the market offers produce at the market price in exchange for goods. It claims prices are low and that food costs are rising elsewhere, while traders aim to keep prices as low as possible.
A miscellaneous grocery price list shows items like coal oil at three per gallon and granulated sugar at 16 pounds for 81.00. It lists coffee brands, lard, soda, oats, baking powder, machine oil, vanilla and lemon extracts, matches, soap bars, and syrup with scattered prices and quantities. The wording is garbled but reflects a period-style shop catalog of everyday goods and their costs.
Daily lists residents and visitors in the region including J. Williams and wife from Washington, Mrs. Hastings to Odon on business, Rev. W. Spoonts’s meeting in Pike county, and many others from Vincennes, Loogootee, Wheatland, and Bloomington visiting relatives, attending events, or on business.
Jeroma Aull returns from West Baden after mud bath treatment and plans further baths at Attica. Fathers J. B. Matthews and P. H. Rowan depart from Trainow and Montgomery for an extended trip through California seeking to batter their hearth.
Horace McCoubos returns to Pittsburg and Boston after five weeks of oil painting exhibitions at Caldwell Galleries. Reports allege garbage adulteration in Bridgeport by contractors, while Philadelphia water and city issues are discussed.
Readable fragments describe a 19th century incident with a suspect tied to a robbery and a vague note about a public event next week at a hotel. Mentions Vincennes Capital and Southern Indian nation context, plus a broken report of a girl injured in East Bethlehem with a daughter of Mr and Mrs John Cain.
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