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Friday, October 14, 2011

A Slight Difference

While the green Rio coffee sells at 18 cents per pound in Philadelphia, says the Press, it can be had in Washington for 10 cents, and rice, worth 7 cents in the former city, sells at 2 cents in the latter.

– Published in The Dubuque Herald, Dubuque, Iowa, Friday Morning, February 7, 1862, p. 1

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