Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1911 — LIVES ON 75 CENTS A WEEK [ARTICLE]

LIVES ON 75 CENTS A WEEK

Aged Man Spends Four Pennies on Newspapers After Buying Himself Plenty of Food. Philadelphia.—An aged man who looked young entered the office of Karl De Scwelnltz, execntivet*ecjetary of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, and after applying for work explained just how he lived on an Income of 75 cents a week. \ His statement of expenditures during the last week follows: One-half peck of potatoes. 18 cents; • pounds of onions. 24 cents; two loaves of bread. 10 cents; one can of condensed milk. 11 cents; bne soup bone. 8 cents; total. 71 cents. Sometimes he gets a pound Of rice for nine cents instead of the soup bone, and this lasts him two weeks The other pennies are spent for news papers. He gave his name as Kverard Star. 70 years old. of this city.