The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-24
COMPARE PRICES
 ON SCHOOL BOOKS Old Prices Are Shown in C0m-
 parlson With New  SHOWS A GOOD DECREASE  Work of Commission Will Mean Great Savings to School chlIdren-A
 Drop In Prices From 10
 to 25 Per Cent.
SHOWS A GOOD DECREASE

 public school children of Alabama. In nearly every case the prices under the new contract will be from 10 to % per cent cheaper than under the old system. A comparison in prices Is shown below. The first and second prices are for the books with a cloth or board binding un- der the new system, and the third Is the price of the book with a cloth binding under the old system. The list of books, the publishers, authors and prices are as follows
 Algebra, Milne's Elements. American Book company, 54 cents, 45 cents; old price, GO cents.
 Mines High School, American Book company, 90 cents, 80 cents; old price. $l. Arithmetic, Cook & Cropsey, Silver, Burdette & Co.,, 85 cents, % cents; old price, SS cents.
 New Elementary, Cook & Cropsey, sil- yer, Burdette & Co.,, new advanced, 45 cents, 40 cents; old price. 50 cents. Van Ambergh's First Days in Numbers. Silver, Burdette & Co.,, 25 cents; old price, 25 cents
 Mental Arithmetic Wentworth Ginn & Co.,. 22 cents; old price, 30 cents.
 Botany, Bergen's Elementary, Chm 6 Co.,, s1; old price, $1.10.
 Civil Government of Alabama, McCor- vey, Eldridge & Co.,, 50 cents; old price, 50 cents.
 Civil Government of United States, Pe- terman, American Book company, 30 cents; old price. 60 cents.
 Drawing, Augsburg's, Educational Pub fishing company.
 Teachers Aids, 1, ? and 3. each 75 cents, 50 cents; old price, 75 cents.
 Pads, each Is cents.
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 English. Modern Lessons, Buehler &s Hotchkiss Newson & Co., 35 cents, 3O cents; old price, 45 cents.
 Grammar, Buehler, 50 cents, 45 cents; old price, 65 cents.
 Composition and Rhetoric, Lockwood & Emerson, Ginn & Co.,, 90 cents; old price. $1.
 Geography, Maurys Elementary, Unl- versity Publishing company, 40 cents, 40 cents; old price, 55 cents.
 Maury's Manual, University Publishing SIPS.
 Physical, Davis' Ginn & Co. N; old price, SIPS.
 Geometry, Wentworth's. Plane Ginn & Co.,, 60 cents; old price, 75 cents.
 Wentworth's, Plane and Solid, Ginn & Co.,, $1; old price, $1.25.
 History, United States, Hansells School. University Publishing company. 40 cents; old price, 60 cents.
 Hanselrs Higher, University Publishing company 70 cents; old price. $1.
 History, Alabama, Brown, University Publishing company, 90 cents; old price. sl.
 Supplementary Histories of Alabama: Miller, 30 cents; old price, $f
 DuBose. Eldridge & Co.,, 20 cents; old price, $1.
 Beverly, sl; old price s1
 A Short History of England Conan & Kendall Macmillan & Co.,, 80 cents; old price, 90 cents.
 General History Myers, Ginn G O., $1. 35; old price, s1 50
 orthography Branson's Common School, F F. Johnson company, 13 cents; old price, 15 cents.
 First Book-Reed's Word Lessons, May nard, Merrill &, Co., p cents; old price. 25 cents.
 Physics. Cages Introduction to Physi- cal Science, Ginn & Co.,, 80 cents; old price, S1.
 Physiology, overtons Intermediate, American Book company, 45 cents, 40 cents; old price. 50 cents.
 Overton's Advanced, P cents, 65 cents; old price. 80 cents.
 Vocal Music. Natural System, American Book company, primer, 27 cents, 25 cents; i; old price, 30 cents.
 First Reader. 1 cents, 25 cents; old price, 30 cents.
 Second Reader. S2 cents; 30 cents; old price, 35 cents.
 Third Reader, S2 cents, 30 cents; old price, B cents.
 Fourth Reader, S2 cents. 30 cents old price, 35 cents.
 Fifth Reader, 45 cents, 70 cents; old price, 50 cents.
 Advanced Readers. 90 cents, 80 cents; old price, s1.
 Natural System. Short Course 2 books, g and a6 cents old prices. s5 and 40 cents. Writing, Normal Review, Vertical and Intermediate Slant. Silver, Burdette & Co.,, cents old price, 5 cents.
 Readers, Baldwin. American Book com pany:
 First, 2a cents. IS cents; old price. 25 cents
 Second, g cents 25 cents; old price, 85 cents
 Third, a6 cents, 30 cents; old price, 40 cents
 Fourth, ss cents, 30 cents; old price, 40 cents
 Fifth s6 cents. 30 cents: old price, 40 cents.
 Fourth and Fifth combined 54 cents 40 cents; ole price. 60 cents.
 Sixth and Seventh, combined, 59 cents, 45 cents; old price, 65 cents.
 Primer, Holtons. Rand. McNally, by Southern School Book Publishing com- pany, 19 cents; old price, 25 cents.