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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1911
Page
5
The weekly market letter guides shoppers to sparing lists for vegetables and fruits with mostly stable prices from last week. Strawberries fetch two quarts for 25 cents, New potatoes five to six cents per pound, and tomatoes around 20 cents a pound with some stores at 13 to 20 cents.
The piece lists grocery prices such as Nasty but ter at 24 cents and creamery butter at 26 to 28 cents, eggs 16 to 17 cents a dozen, and a sale of half pound Josephine chocolates for $3.00. It also cites a Bradford paper on medieval university exams requiring birch and public flogging for prospective grammar masters, highlighting debate and reasoning in old education.
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