Saturday, July 19, 2014

Sweet Things

From the steamer trunk.

2014-7-19 1912-12-09-a
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Image courtesy of E.H.


$1.00 a pound, even $.80 a pound, was quite expensive in 1912.

2014-7-19 1912-12-09-b

We know who, Minnie. I'll bet Herman did too.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Funny how the word for expensive used to be dear..in Swedish its dyr which is pronounced the same. Dyr a means expensive also so there must be some word origin connection there.