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What Luxuries Cost

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
March
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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The foüowing list of iu mul out of season delicaciea wlth pricee, U taken trom the New York Mail and Express Monday the 12th, nnd shows what the wealthy people in that city pay tor nice things to tickle thelr palates witli: Grape fruit is worth JI.25 a dozen. Cholee plneapples are S5 cents each. Belected bananas cost 40 cents a dozen. Hothouse cucumbers are 35 ets eaoh. Good table apples cost 75 cents per dozen. Cholee Florida strawberries are f 1 per box. Eastern Beurre pears cost $1.50 a dozen and Santa Anna's t-." a dozen. Excellent navel oranares frora Florida may now be had at $1.2.5 a dozen. Doraestlc glacé fruit are slxty cents and Imponed fruits 75 cents per puund. Hothouse rapes are only to be had on peolal orders and cost 10 a pound. Malaga grapes nre from H to .50 cents a pounu and Calawabas 20cenU) a dozen. Florida oranges cost from 40 to 60 cenU a dozen and Me.tsinas .io cents a dozen.

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News