The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-18
FOOD PRICES
FOR TOPEKA AND SHAWNEE COUNTY

FOX TOPEKA AND SHAWNEE COUNTY
as interpreted by the price Interpretation
BOARD OF Shawnee county. E. Montgomery,
chairman.
The new regulations supersede the $3.50
rule.
The retail dealer selling standard wheat
flour Is required to carry in stock, either
barley flour, corn flour, or corn meal and
with every sale of wheat flour must sell a
combination of some one more of these
or some of the other recognized substitutes
IN proportion of one pound substitute to
may force any other substitute in combina-
ton to the consumer and the substitutes
must conform to the standard fixed by the
United States food administration.
The rules limiting sales by retailers of
wheat to an eighth of barrel in cities and
a quarter barrel In sparsely settled dis
This list is printed by order of the
United States food administering
This list is printed by order of the
United States food administration.
Prices approved by the Topeka board are
as follows:
FLoUR-Wheat flour. e4-lb. sack. cost
81 1914 @1.3sA sell $1.4s@1.55. Bulk, per
| ID, cost 5Ac. sell 6a4c Barley flour. per
per ID, cost 57sc. sell T@7Ac. Corn flour,
Bulk. per ID. cost Sc, sell liz to 11asc
VICTORY BREAD-24-ounce loaf, cost
12c. sell 14@15c; 16-ounce loaf. cost Sc, sell
oATMEAL-or rolled oats. bulk. per h.,
cost 51a@5c. sell 6A@ss; 22-ounce pack
age, cost 102sc, sell 15@14c.
STGAR. Granulated, bulk: per h., cost
1o01c, sell lbs. 23c, lbs. sec.
B BE SsS navy or pea. cost 12A@
17@19c. Colored, pinto or any other vari-
ETY.; per ID: cost 1o@1oAc, sell 1214d1Sc.
POTATOES-White Irish, per peck,
| cost 81 to Sec. sell 40 &c 45c.
ON1ONS-Per h., cost 21a@512c, sell 31s
| @714c.
RAISINS-Seeded, 16-ounce package, cost
1o1ac sell 15m17c
REPRESENTATION size, so to eoc per h..
cost cA 1lSsf sell 1y%11e s,snd.r,
per 2o-ounce can. cost 15c. sell 1s@20c
! CANNED CORN-Standard grade, per
son SEA- io se Iog Grade
2o-ounce can, cost 131a@141ac, sell $50 zoe.
| CANNED a sALMoNmTall pink Alaska as
| o5c Tall red Alaska per 16-ounce can
cost &c. sell 33@35c
| EVAPORATED MILK-Unsweetened. per
| 6-ounce can, cost 6Hc, sell &C. Unsweeten-
14tafsc N''N' N'' IN ' -
MILK-Bottled, quart, cost 1o@1ec, sell
BUTTER-Cost 551a to 5ehc, sell 60 to
0LEoMARGARINE- lb., cost, % to
EGGs.Per dozen. cost 4sc. sell 30 to Sc.
-, Is SE-A Anne full cream cut, per
! LARD-Pure leaf. bulk, per h., cost
c903oc. sell 32@35c.
| LARD SUlSS IIIUlE-Bulk, per ID, cost
| BACON (breakfast sliced standard
grade))-Cost 46 to 4Sc, sell 60 to 65c per
! PORK CHOPS-Cost 3e1sc, sell AZ to
! 451ac.
HAM tsmoked. sliced)-Cost 40 to 45c,
ROUND sTEAK-Cost % to CSC, sell IS
| to 4Oc per lb.
HENS year or more ODD. dressed.
/ lb-. sell at 50 to 40c lb. ButtermiIk fed
hens. dressed. drawn: feet and heads of.
| cost 40c h.; sell at % to Coo Id.
| No one is permitted to have sugar or
| flour in excess of thirty days supply Par
ties having more will be considered .'hoard-
| ers.' for which the penalty is very severe.
| Pinto beans are plentiful. Use them in
| place of the other kinds.
Eat potatoes; rec. and corn products.
Save wheat flour for our allies. Use sub
| stitutes and do your bit to help win the
war.
Save wheat. meats. fats, sugar and serve
| the cause of freedom
Retails should conform to the prices or
! appeat 70 the local board for readjustment.
| customers sign for every sale of sugar and
send their signatures every thirty days to
w. T, lines, Wichita. Kan. Grocers' can
| ners' certificates will be redeemed by ". P.
| Innes in multiples of T.
| Rice. oatmeal. table hominy or cracked
! stitutes.
The sugar distribution division at Wash
ingtun has ruled that retailers should not
pound IN any case. except where the work
ing out of fractions produces such excess
rms means a margin Of profit 1 cent per
pound over retailers floor cost
| Dealers owning sugar at a less price
| than the above market quotations must OBJ
serve ., this margin Of profit. 1c per ID.
! that the two pound rule for city customers
and five pound quantity limitations for
! country customers will remain in full force
turnout this entire zone.