Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1912 — EGGS HELP TO PASS PROSPERITY AROUND [ARTICLE]

EGGS HELP TO PASS PROSPERITY AROUND

Women on Indiana farms are convinced that Republican prosperity is being “passed around” when they compare the "egg money” they are receiving with the market price of this product back in 1896, when Democratic influences were cutting down egg prices and their buying power. Eggs this year have a much longer reach In the market for the farm woman when she goes to town for her home supplies. in 1896 thirty dozen eggs would buy 74 pounds of coffee, and that now she can buy 94 pounds; that In 1896 she could buy 137 pounds of rice and that now she can buy 286 pounds; that In 1896 she could buy 180 founds of granulated sugar, and that now she can buy 261 pounds' that In 1896 she could buy 114 ybrds of cotton flannel, and that now she can buy with the same number of eggs 141 yards; that In 1896 she could buy 3 pairs of shoes; that now the same number of eggs will cover the price of five pairs of shoes, in fact, ths buying power of eggs has since 1896 Increased 90 per cent.