The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-11-29
THANKSGIVING DINNER.
The GOOD Things That Are To Be Had In
the Market.
TURKEYS AND CHICKENS ARE PLENTIFUL
Hnd-smnll Game In scarce-The
Prices Asked.

Pies. puddings and custards pigs. oysters
and nuts;
Come forward and sieze them without ifs
and butts;
Bring none of your slim little appetites
here
Thanksgiving day comes only once year.
The Houston man, woman or child with
good appetite can have 1t gratifed at
small cost tomorrow. Thanksgiving day.
for the market is we'll supplied with all
the good things that go to make up a
Thanksgiving dinner, from the turkey--the
piece de resistance--all the way down the
line of edibles.
The local market will have an abund-
ance of fish and fowl. and all the fruits
and vegetables obtainable at this season
the only deficiency being in small game.
lie Houston housewife is more fortu
nate than her Eastern and Northern sis
ters In that she can supply her table WITH
many varieties of fresh vegetables that
are seldom seen at this season on tn"
tables Of people who live in colder eli
mates.
The table is spread, and the dinner IS
dressed;
The cooks and the mothers have all done
their best.
No Caliph OF Bagdad e'er saw such dis
play,
Or dreamed OF treat like our Thanks
giving day
The foregoing lines will be most appli-
cable to Thanksgiving dinners in Houston
this year. In addition to the well supplied
market from which to select a Thanks.
giving dinner a large majority of Hous.
tons population will have the price of
good Thanksgiving feast. Moreover, the
way in which Providence has smiled on
them is calculated to make them enjoy
such feast more than they might under
different circumstances.
~
Houston's market will be we'll stocked
with all kinds of produce, choice fruits and
vegetables, and the following prices will
prevail
Cauiiiower. 20 cents head; celery, 10
cents bunch, cabbage, from to 10 cents
a head. according TO size, tomatoes, 10
cents a dozen.
In the retail market dressed turkeys will
be sold at ST. and dressed geese Tor s.. 25
wild ducks bringing 30 cents a pair. on
ions for the dressing, stufting or other ac-
compartments for meats may be had Al
10 cents a bunch, and fresh green peas
VIII be sold at 10 cents a quart. Turnips
sell for cents per bunch of four and
greens may be had for 5 cents bunch
Cranberries, as Indispensable to a Thanks
giving dinner as the turkey, will sell tor
10 cents quart. Dressed 'possums sell
for 90 cents, and rabbits and squirrels for
10 cents Spinach Is 10 cents a bunch.
New Irish potatoes, one of the staples in
any dinner, may be bought for 10 cents 4
quart. Fruits help to ornament Thanks
giving table as well as helping 10 COM
| plete the dinner. Nice pineapples cost -
cents each, and bananas are Is cents II
dozen. Apples. grapes and other fruits are
TO be had at prices that are very reason
able
For live fowls the following prices are
quoted by the dozen among the produce
houses:
Chickens, good hens ....... 80 to 81. so
Chickens, large springs, select
ca -.'................. go to 2.b0
Chickens. medium .......... 200 to 2t5
Chickens. small ............. LIS TO 1870
Turkeys, heavy gobblers go. 500 to 1000
Turkeys, heavy 2-year- olds 1900
Turkeys, hens, large, heavy. 100 to $50
Turkeys, medium ............ $50 to 500
Ducks, good heavy feathered. 2.75 TO 500
Geese, good heavy feathered. $50 to 4.25