The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-05-16
IN THE MARKETS.
What a News Reporter Saw and
Learned as to Prices---Appe.
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| No place affords more inviting appear
ance on bright spring morning than the
market stands and the stores loaded down
with fresh and green garden truck. The
sight tickles the eye, the appetite and par
alyzes the pocketbook.
Nice looking Strawberries cause the eye
TO look and linser and linger and look
They come now Ia boxes. Everybody
| likes strawberries and the sight of nice
! lot of them at this season is--.so tempting
| The price at present Is 5 cents box for the
best, and 10 cents for number two grade.
! There is quite difference in the berries,
as much so as the difference in the price.
! There was quite tumble in the price of
| the berries on Thursday. In the morning
they were selling at 20 cents box; at
noon they were down to Is cents; mt
O'Clock the price placard had changed to Is
cents and at 6 o'clock the sign read +" 13
cents a box-two boxes for 25." Some
very excellent specimens were in the
stores this morning ut 10 cents and CON
sidering all things this is not excessive.
Often during the season one pays 10 cents
for the best The difference then is you
buy the quart; there is quite q difference
between quart measure and the boxes.
The second grade of berries Is quite good
and the price is within the reach Of al.
most everybody for little extra for
Sunday.
! Fresh peas and beans, too, attract the
eye. They are fine goods. No fictitious
| values attached to them. And how CRATE
full is the average human nav to gather
them in. A long winter on dry fodder
makes these green things welcome. And
from this out they'll come in by the
bushel-may be by the ton.
Vegetables of the brought-up-n-the-
bottle order, are with us all the year
round these progressive times but they
can't touch the kind wlinh the old plan
gives us They lack iuM life flavor, but
they are pretty and refreshing to the eye
and destructive to the pocket-book.
Nobody talked high priced beef In
fact beef may not be high. But some
people fancy 1t Is trifle tougher than it
was before the trouble as to price came
along. Fewer cows perhaps Craze in the
meadows as result.
Butter has butter cups in it and daisies
just few. This article can be had at
almost any price between Is and 30 cents
n pound. A pretty wide margin you'll
say. The margin is broader than the
difference in quality of goods.
Hens are cacllling and that means bus.
ness In the egg factories of the land The
egg market is keeping up right along and
while prices are not much above cent
apiece, the goods are to be had without
much apparent cost, so the profits are
satisfactory.
Roots from the earth are wanted-in
the way of new potatoes and beets and
turnips and cabbage and "sich." Cab
bage is said to be scarce and the free
lunch route is thereby being somewhat
interfered with for u time, but it will
right itself in due season.
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As everybody is interested in prices of
living commodities a news reporter made
the rounds early this morning and ascer-
tained that prices were running about as
follows:
Butter Is to 2Oc per pound; eggs 1215c
per dozen; duck eggs Is to 25c per dozen
cottage cheese, 10c per quart; mush, two
pounds for DC; apple butter 25c per quart.
Poultry-Chickens, 14c per pound
Meats-Mutton, to 16c; lamb, 10 to |
2Oc; veal to 16c beef steak, 1917 to 1Sc /; |
ribroast l4c; chuck, 10 to 12c; stewing |
pieces, Z to 10c; mincemeat, 10c per |
pound, three pounds for 25c.
Pork-I1am (salt) sliced, zoe; whole, |
12cK; fitch, 12cJG; shoulder Sc; half |
smoked and bologna 15c; corned beef, & |
to 1904 scapple 8 to s per pound; sauage, |
lOc per pound; lard, 10 to 12c per pound !; !
pigs feet 15c per pair; fresh pork 10 to 12c |
per pound.
Fish-Hallbut, 16c per pound blue.
fish, 15c per pound; founder, 1870 psr
pound; haddock 12c per pound; perch 70 |
per pound; cells, 12Hc per pound; sea |
bass, 10c per pound; roclllish, 15c per
pound; catfish, 21lc per pound; salmon,
l5c per pound; ciscos Sc per pound lob
sters, 25c per pound; lake shad 1Oc per
pound; white pike Sc per pound; yellow
perch, &c per pound; mackerel, 20 to 35c
apiece; dressed herring 1Oc per pound;
white bass Sc per pound.
Fruit-Cocoa nuts to 10c apiece;
lemons, 20 to 25c per dozen; bananas, Is
to 25c per dozen; canned fruit, 20c per
quart; oranges, Is to 35c per dozen
apples, 20 to Boo per half peck dried cher
ries, 15c per pound dried blackberries 12c
per pound.
egetabes-Potatoes, 10c per half peck;
parsnips 10c per dozen; soup herbs 20 per
bunch spinach, zoe per l.alf peck onions,
zoe per half peck; scullion, 30 per bunch
radishes DC per bunch cucumber pickles,
&c per dozen; new cucumbers, 10 to lee
apiece; sweet potatoes, goo per half peck;
lima beans, 12c per quart; carrots 5c per
bunch; hot house beets,, 25c per bunch
I'D beets, l0c per dozen; horse radish,
20 l0c per root; turnips 10c per half peck
ettuce to 10c per head; water cress, two
punches for &c; asparagus 10c per bunch
)nions set, l5c per quart; rhubarb, Sc per
bunch; Southern tomatoes, 35c per pound
DC apiee; peas Soc per half
peck
Plants-Potted flowers 3 to loo per pot
,ut flowers, carnations Boo dozen; tube
5o; gladiola bulb, 30; flower
seeds, DC per package; cabbage plants, 10