Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1917 — Potatoes at 18c Bushel— Just a Minute—In 1896. [ARTICLE]

Potatoes at 18c Bushel— Just a Minute—In 1896.

(From a Chicago paper dated April 30, 1896.) New grass butter was fairly plentiful in the market yesterday and the demand was good. The season is fully three weeks earlier than it was last year. Abundant rains have put the meadows in fine condition, and the prospects are that prices will rule low. There is no reason why the grocer should not furnish customers with nice, sweet, new butter at 16 cents to 18 cents a pound as an outside price. Eggs declined cent. The freshest eggs obtainable sold wholesale yesterday at 9% cents a dozen. The grocery price was all the way from 10 cents to 14 cents a dozen. Fair eggs coulld be bought by the case containing thirty dozen, at the rate of 6 cents a dozen in South Water street. Potatoes declined a cent a bushel, making the top price for car lot quotations 18 cents a bushel. This means, of course, old crop potatoes. Many grocers were selling choicest Burbanks at 7 cents to 9 cents a peck.