Roger Bacon High School - Troubadour Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Imagine buying that acre of land you have spotted for $125! Or, even at the higher price of $10 Those are the prices offered to our founding fathers to encourage set- tlement of the wilderness areas of this nation A stage wasnit the most comfortable way to go, but you could get from city to city For as little as $3 - at the amazing pace of six miles per hour. Compare today's wages with a 12-hour clay in the early 1300'; A man earned 50c a day. OF course his dollar bought a little more than today's. Butter in 1826 was about 5c lb. in the Midwest: eggs, 3c doz.; corn 6:: bu., wheat. 25$ bu.; and a cow could be bought for $5. With travel becoming the American tradi- lion, you could choose train, wagon. horseback or the water. A canal ride, with bed and board included, averaged 3 or 40: per mile. And when you reached your des- tination, you could sit down to a 5, or even 10 course meal for 250:. iLadies 20m, in consideration of appetiteJ Farmers in the early 1800's could own the famous McCormick Reaper For a mere $100. But the Civil War increased prices as the machine became the first item farmers could buy on time payments For the sum of $1,500. A good suit of clothes then might cost $1.95 and ladies waists tblousesi were marketed for 49a to $3.50 with a whole drese pattern priced at 15c. Cookstoves. quality-satisfaction guaran- teed, could cost you $2925 at $4 per month and a dandy heating stove could set you back as much as $5.73 and up, The first electric refrigerator cost $900 - which might be enough to make you Faint on your 1907 fainting touch that had cost a mere$7.55. Your new baby traveiled in the height of fashion in a wicker sleeping coach tstroll- art for the sum of $12.04. IF you had $1,500 in 1903 you could show off in one of the first automobiles. Ah, those were the days. Some of the cur- rent prices are reminiscent of those days, but at frontier prices, which were a whole different story. Hardy pioneers had to pay $2 a pound for sugar, too. And the same for a pound of coffee or pepper. Those items were only 15c per pound back in Civ- ilized St Louis. Flour was marked up 100 times for sale to the frontiersmen and dur- ing the famous Gold Rush. that precious commodity went for $400 a barrel.

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ANDREW CARNEGIE was a giant in the railmad and steel indusines. He behaved lhal n was Ihe duly o! a lich man to distribute hi5 weailh during his lilehrnm Tu lhai end. he established 2800 IibrarEes and many cultural halls lhru ughnul America. Serving an unprecedented Ium lerms as Presidenl 0! the Uniled Stala. HIIMUN DELANO ROOSEVELI was a annular leader who made extensive use at lireshde radin chals to explain his plans and zenelate enihusiasm In nush 1hen1 through Congresse The crippler pnlinmyelihs was conquered by DR. JDMS SllK In 1953 aller mole lhan 25 years n! IEIICh Polio ms minced by 961: in less lhan ten yearsh SALK's re search nonlinues in Calilorma a! the Salk Institute. One of the mail elemenlaly symbois ol the American way oi me was established when J. EDGAR HOOVER and ms Federal Bureau n! Investigation uG-men set out to clean up the cuunllye His eareel spanned over 40 yeatse A iiiellme passion lnl machlnery led HENRY FORD In Detroit where. in l895. he Lompleted his first motor ve- hicle. The Ford Mnlm Company manufactured 1he lirsl Mndel I in 1909, ROBERT FIOST'i poeiry was clear, understated. wellr meleved and mid me stories nl Iural America He was a four-time winner nf lhe Pulitzer Pnle and has been called America's nnet Iaureake. A plain homely woman with llemendous appeal to lhe masses, who was always In lhe 'Whick nf lhinas de' scribes ELEANOR ROOSEVELT amt her IIfelime nl pnli- licking beside her husband during hrs mu: terms Lieulenanl Cnlnnet JOHN GLENN started America's tlav- els tu nulel space when he hecamelhe heal Amemzan lo omit the earth He had been an awalnr in Wurid War I1 and a test nilni In peacelime. IAITIII LUIHER KING was a ludel tn the cause 01 civil rights, He had heen a uaslm belote hunIng m me cause ol segrecahonr Hvs leadershw earned him the Nobel Peace Fnze In 1964. He was assassunaled hy Jami Earl Ray in 1963 The moliunrpiclure Industry was revolulionized m Amznv as and DAVID WARK GRIFFIIH became Known as the Father oi the film art and king of directors hf hls par! in lhis revululionk His camera Iechmques were the pmnaenngsleps u! the Induslry IIIURGOOII IIRSHIU. IS the hrsl Negro la salve as a iuslice o! the Supreme Guun. His law career was aimed pnmarsiy ai enul eighls came GERALD R. FORD, the firs! Praidenl to achieve lhe nf- hce ullhnut an elechnne In NH, through a Sena nl scandalnus evenls. the Nixon adminuslralion maples and FORD reached the Dosihun through annrml by Cnngras.

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