Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1911 — Varying Prices of Lobsters. [ARTICLE]

Varying Prices of Lobsters.

Lovers of lobster ought to get a lot of comfort out of a recent paragraph in the famous old Kennebec Journal, which says that the crustaceans are "dirt cheap.” However, the Journal adds, “they are not as low in price as in the old days, when they-sold six for 25 cents, but the price has fallen to 16 cento a pound, which is decidedly different from the figures that were being quoted early in the spring. Then they were being bought alive for 50 cents a* pound from the fishermen, and the price in Boston and New York spared to 80 cents a pound, and, in some cases, beyond.”