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What Makes Hard Times?

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
October
Year
1870
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

-Tho ■ constant use ol m'oxicating Iiquors wake hard timos for ma-riy a mau. Tlius a fainily of five persons wil! consumo four barrels of flour a year, or 1,050 pounda of bread. This ia ïvarly tbrce ponnds a day. Goöd flnur can now be bouglit for 87 a liane) ; foor times 7 di h k-:s 828 ; and tl.irly cents a day for drinks is $1ÜÍ) . J1.6Ö more por yr.v the bren! for a famüy of fivo pe 08fl. " But," MV8 A. " I oniy t:ike two drinks a day." Very wp!1 ; jou pav, t hen, for your drinks 873 a yar' only Cl" more thab yon pay for the bread oonBDmd by yrmr uholn faraily, if it oontaina fivo persons. Thi mui h ii'J provide tu a and Coflee for tlieiu.

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus