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...proposed to build three bridges, most important one to span the straits between Zealand and Falster. About two miles long, it would be the longest bridge in Europe.† The State would be reimbursed by an extra gasoline tax of one ore a liter (roughly, 1/5? a quart...
From the second of these causes, milk sold last week in Buffalo, N. Y. for 6? a quart. Housewives enjoyed the lowest milk prices in the State, the lowest in Buffalo for 25 years. In Cleveland a price-cutting war between the local cooperatives and a retail subsidiary of far-flung National Dairy Products, which had cut the cost 2? a quart, last week ended, with prices up to 12? a quart. Similar strife between Pevely Dairy Co. and the Sanitary...
...guests incapacitated or otherwise absent, Penrose never left the ball room, the center of the merry-making." Typical Penrose meal: "A dozen raw oysters, chicken gumbo, a terrapin stew, two canvasback ducks, mashed potatoes, lima beans, macaroni, asparagus, cole slaw and stewed corn, one hot mince pie and a quart of coffee. All of which he stowed away while he drank a bottle of sauterne, a quart of champagne, and several cognacs...
...mentions, of affairs is not entirely impossible even though, as your historical comment indicates, it may be quite unlikely, is borne out by the fact that a few years ago a Louisville drug store used to offer, on the occasion of what were called 1? sales, two quarts of excellent, 100 proof, five-year-old Bourbon for $1.01 which on the old time bartender's calculation of 20 drinks to a quart would figure somewhere in the neighborhood of 2½? a drink...
...fine cows. For the last 39 years, professors who wished milk were obliged to go to the cowbarn with a can and cart it home as best they could. Last week it was announced that milk will hereafter be bottled and delivered to faculty members. Cost: 12? the quart...