Tantasqua Regional High School - Tantasquan Yearbook (Sturbridge, MA)

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Imagine buying that acre of land you have spotted for $1.25! 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 wasn’t 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 day in the early 1800's. A man earned 50¢ a day. Of course his dollar bought a little more than today’s. Butter in 1826 was about 5¢ lb. in the Midwest; eggs, 3¢ doz.; corn 6¢ bu., wheat, 25¢ bu.; and a cow could be bought for $5. With travel becoming the American tradi- tion, you could choose train, wagon, horseback or the water. A canal ride, with bed and board included, averaged 3 or 4¢ per mile. And when you reached your des- tination, you could sit down to a5, or even 10 course meal for 25¢. (Ladies 20¢, in consideration of appetite.) 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 (blouses) were marketed for 49¢ to $3.50 with a whole dress pattern priced at 15¢. Cookstoves, ‘‘quality-satisfaction guaran- teed,’’ could cost you $29.25 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 couch that had cost a mere $7.85. Your new baby travelled in the height of fashion in a wicker sleeping coach (stroll- er) 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 15¢ 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 railroad and steel industries. He believed that it was the duty of a rich man to distribute his wealth during his lifetime. To that end, he established 2800 libraries and many cultural halls throughout America. Serving an unprecedented four terms as President of the United States, FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT was a popular leader who made extensive use of fireside radio chats to explain his plans and generate enthusiasm to push them through Congress. A lifetime passion for machinery led HENRY FORD to Detroit where, in 1896, he co mpleted his first motor ve- hicle. The Ford Motor Company manufactured the first “Model T” in 1909 ROBERT FROST’s poetry was clear, understated, well- metered and told the stories of rural America. He was a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and has been called America’s poet laureate One of the most elementary symbols of the American way of life was established when J. EDGAR HOOVER and his Federal Bureau of Investigation ‘‘G-men’’ set out to clean up the country. His career spanned over 40 years, A plain, homely woman with tremendous appeal to the masses, who was always in the ‘thick of things” de- scribes ELEANOR ROOSEVELT and her lifetime of poli- ticking beside her husband during his four terms The motion-picture industry was revolutionized in Ameri- ca and DAVID WARK GRIFFITH became known as the “Father of the film art’ and “king of directors” for his part in this revolution. His camera techniques were the pioneering steps of the industry THURGOOD MARSHALL is the first Negro to serve as a justice of the Supreme Court. His law career was aimed primarily at civil rights cases The crippler poliomyelitis was conquered by DR. JONAS SALK in 1953 after more than 25 years of research. Polio was reduced by 96% in less than ten years. SALK’s re- search continues in California at the Salk Institute. MARTIN LUTHER KING was a leader in the cause of civil rights. He had been a pastor before turning to the cause of segregation. His leadership earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He was assassinated by James Earl Ray in 1968. Lieutenant Colonel JOHN GLENN started America’s trav- els to outer space when he became the first American to orbit the earth. He had been an aviator in World War II and a test pilot in peacetime. GERALD R. FORD, the tirst President to achieve the of- fice without an election. In 1974, through a series of scandalous events, the Nixon administration toppled and FORD reached the position through approval by Congress

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