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Unknown Newspaper dated December 1, 1905
Prices 100 years ago.
A book entitled “Sketches of a Tour of the Western Country,” published in Pittaburgh, PA., in 1810, says of the market of that city the following:
There are two market days weekly, and the common prices of necessaries were:
Good beef, 2 ½ to 4 ½ cents a pound
Pork, 3 ½ cents
Mutton, 4 cents
Veal, 4 cents
Venison, 3 to 4 cents
Bacon, 6 to 10 cents
Butter, 10 to 18 cents
Cheese, 8 to 12 cents
Hogs, lard, 8 cents
Fowls, each, 10 to 12 cents
Ducks 25 cents
Geese, 33 to 37 cents
Turkeys 40 to 75 cents
Flour, $1.75 to $2.50 per 100 pounds, or $3.50 to $4.50 a barrel
Corn, 33 cents a bushel
Potatoes, 10 cents a bushel
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