cts.
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centimes.
cts.
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centimes.
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cents.
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certificates.
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Flour, pork and sugar are one dollar per lb.; coffee 50 cts., fresh beef 25, and not much to be got at those prices.
From Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51 by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
The gardeners sell tomato-plants for $10 per dozen, and cabbage-plants for 50 cts. each!
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
I pay 50 cts. per quart for seed potatoes, and should be chagrined to find my expenditure of money and labor had been for the benefit of the invader!
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
IV & V. Any distance within United States, 3000 miles and under cts. cts.
From The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools by George E. (George Edwin) Waring
Meats of all kinds are selling at 50 cts. per pound; butter, 75 cts.; coffee, $1.50; tea, $10; boots, $30 per pair; shoes, $18; ladies’ shoes, $15; shirts, $6 each.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
By Julian Hawthorne. 12mo, paper, 15 cts; cloth, extra paper, 75 cts.
From The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It by R. W. Beers
A humorous Poem by John G. Saxe, with illustrations, 50 cts.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell
The following are the charges per word in gold: Guatemala to points in the United States 55 cts.
From Guatemala, the country of the future by Charles M. Pepper
Allowance for old book in exchange, 30 cts.
From The King of the Golden River or the Black Brothers A Legend of Stiria. by John Ruskin
A New York hand stamp of this period has New York above, month and day in the middle and "PAID" and "3 cts" in two more lines.
From History of the Postage Stamps of the United States of America by John Kerr Tiffany
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