Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1917 — SOME FIFTY YEARS AGO PRICES [ARTICLE]

SOME FIFTY YEARS AGO PRICES

s The following clipping fro: n the Winamac Democrat-Journal s --Yfty b'Years Ago” column, give, the prices at that time. <ili be Fof interest to readers at this” when everybody is eoxrl"’hing oiabout the sky-high prices o’ ce? * h*sities: p'j Beeves, fair grades, lejs6; butter, 36c; eggs - flo “ ’ $lO to <13.50; wheat, <l-84; corn, bushel, <1.02; lard, 12c; mess we it will be noted that butter, Pa *ggs, flour, wheat and corn were by t»early or quite as high then as b now, but beef cattle and hogs were fojnot half the price they now coma mand. High prices followed the * n Scivil war for several years, and it w %as not until the early seventies that prices came down