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Other Costs in 1901

Food
  
Houses For Sale May 1901
Item
Price
2000 $
Ground Beef per lb.
$.07
$1.40
Sugar per lb.
$.04
$.80
Eggs dozen
$.14
$2.79
Butter per lb.
$.25
$4.99
 
House
Price
2000 $
9 rooms
$1,850
$36,908
485 7th Street
$1,850
$36,908
new 2-family house
$4,000
$79,801
11-room house Elmwood District
$4,500
$89,776
near the Circle
$4,500
$99,751
new house, barn, at Rosedale, 1 mile N. of Main at city line
$850
$16,958
South Lafayette Ave, 8 rooms, cellar, furnace, bath
$2,000
$39,900

Graphophone (an early version of the record player): $5 - $150 ($99.75 - $2,992)

Average Cost of a year at Yale: $850 ($16,957)

Kodak Cameras: $1 - $17.50 ($19.95 - $349)

 

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