The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-05-04
PRICES. TAKING TAI |
ALL JOY OUT. OF
HOUSEKEEPING ]
Flour Jumps 25 Gents This Morn.
ing and Is Retailing at $7.95
Hundred Weight
PORK CHOPS SELLING IT:
AT IS CENTS A POUND

When father COntrOnCS mOtHer 10
day with the question, where did
last weeks pay check go?" she has
but to hand him this article as her
alibi. t
When the young man contemplating
matrimony writes his flancee that
the event had better he postponed a
year, he might enclose this article,
which will be self-explanatory.
Flour Jumps rs Cents.
The price of flour got another
spasm today and jumped rs cents.
Flour in the Bismarck stores was re-
failing at $7.95 a hundred this after
noon, compared with a quotation OF
$40 yesterday, despite the fact that
wheat took slump. Wheat and flour
seem to work just at opposite angles
in the opinion of Bismarck grocery
dealers.
And This Isn't All. -
And this isn't all! Pork chops arc
retailing at "a cents pound and will
probably hold that price tomorrow for
the Saturday night purchaser. Boiled
ham is so cents a pound and raw
ham 40 cents. Is it any wonder that
the hotels and the cafes serve a
"pindh" of ham with an order of ham
and eggs? Cuts of beef range from
10 to IS cents.
There was no dairy butter to be
purchased in the city this morning
If there's any on the market tomor'
row it came in late this afternoon
and was under disguise, for every
housewife in the city is playing the
role of detective in an effort to &c,
clue on some good dairy butter
Creamery butter-butter made at
Mandan, New Salem and Bismarck
is retailing at so cents pound
Spread it. thin, boys!
Even in the cafes, butter is served
very thin these days. One slice Of
creamery butter will not spread a
wafer To ask for another piece OF
butter brings cold glance from the
stable clerk +,
Oh, You Big Strawberry.
Strawberries are daily visitors ir
Bismarck. Louisiana berries at that
That are big fellows and good tasters
They are retailing at about one cent
apiece, or IS cents, a quart box. They
have held that quotation for the last
two weeks. Strawberries are right
now the most staple priced products
on the market, it seems.
Eggs-fresh eggs, mind you-are
bringing IS cents a dozen. This is
a drop of five cents from prices quot
ed two weeks ago. Two boiled eggs
at a cafe cost the man at the table
Is cents. In the candy and billiard
halls apples are on par will
oranges. Both sell for 5 cents apiece
Tomatoes to Take Header. ".,.
Tomatoes are going to do the
'Humpty Dumpty act tomorrow, &C
cording to, merchants. Fresh, ripe to
matoes are scheduled to fall from q
to 25 cents a. pound One or two
tomatoes make a. pound.
Spinach is retailing at 20 cents {
pound; asparagus at 10 cents a bunch
green onions 10 cents large bunch
and bananas at IS cents dozen.
SLAVES Are Still 20. Cents.
And mention might be made, too
that Bismarck BARRIERS are still get
ting 20 cents for a shave whether Z
"fellah" gets his neck shaved or not
At Duluth shaves have been boosted
to 25 cents and haircuts to so cents
But at Duluth "fellah" needs tt
keep a fuzzy growth on his face tt
keep warm, so there's reason-s
barber can't starve.
A gallon of gasoline for JOY ride
will cost the autoist from % to 81
cents. The Marshall Oil compan,
quoted gasoline at 24.2 cents as the
wholesale price this morning.