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January 18, 2024

90 YEARS AGO

Prices at Terpening’s Grocery & Market—Phone 1250—Free Deliveries: Fresh killed chickens, 23 cents lb.; 2 lbs. liver, 25 cents; Homemade veal loaf, 25 cents lb.; Beef roast, 10 cents and 18 cents lb.; Veal chops, 15 cents lb.; Breast of veal, 8 cents lb.; 2 cans peas or succotash, 29 cents; 2 pounds confectionary sugar, 15 cents; 4 cans baked beans, 25 cents; Fresh coffee, 21 cents lb.; 3 bottles olives, 29 cents; 2 large cans peaches, 29 cents; 2 cans raspberries, 35 cents, 2 dozen juicy oranges, 49 cents; 1 dozen grapefruit, 49 cents; 10 lbs. apples, 49 cents; 7 lbs. turnips, 25 cents; 2 pounds butter, 47 cents.

January 1934

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