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...early Harvard customs, previously unknown and first revealed by this "buttery" ledger, was a "quarter dinner" held in the college four times a year down to 1765. The college butler prepared these meals. For one meal, in August, 1729, according to the "buttery" entry, the butler purchased milk, eggs, sugar, flour, nutmeg, "legg" of mutton, pork, squash, butter, pigcons, bread, apple pie, and wine. This meal cost 1 pound, 8 shillings, 7 pence, or about...
Another dinner, served in October, 1725, included pork, cheese, "fowle," butter, "beafe," carrots, turnip, apple pie, and wine, and cost 22 shillings, or about $5. Apple pie and wine almost always were on the dinner menu in those days, the ledger shown...
...insurance men last week added up the nation's fire loss for 1935, found that conflagrations had cost $245,000,000 and swallowed up some 10,000 human lives. They could reflect sadly that wood is still the commonest building material. But on the good side of the ledger was a report from the National Board of Fire Underwriters containing well-documented assurance that there is such a thing as fireproof wood...
...credit side of the ledger, however, loom items of importance. During the last fifty years there has been a sharp upward curve in the registering of employees under the Civil Service, with relatively minor slumps during depressions. True, the real plums are still reserved for politicians, but many can be won. And, surprisingly, the English people have managed to maintain the party system, even with a great Civil Service system...
...this point alert Correspondent Harold Brayman of the Philadelphia Public Ledger broke in to ask: "Does your bill touch family trusts...