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I Eggs $7 Each in San Francisco in '49; New York Group Shows Menu Collection New York flJ.PJ Anybody for ambling over to the hotel and enjoying some nice fresh eggs, at SI per egg. You could do this in Amer ica 108 years aj;o, a time which generally is tagged "the good old days." However, you had to pick your place. The place was San Francisco. The time was the early gold rush days. The hotel was the Ward House. The bill of fare of Thursday, Dec. 27, 1849 listed "Fresh Cal ifornia eggs, each . - . $1.00." You could get an order of boiled or mashed potatoes for 50 cents and a blob of bread pudding for 75 cents. The frontier had gone a long way "both westward and price ward. This was the- same coun try in which just 60 years be fore a traveler stopping at a Maryland tavern could get "the best dinner or supper, with a pint of good beer or cyder" for 20 cents, and the "second best or family ditto" for 15 cents. The same Maryland tavern bill for that year, 1790, offered "a good clean bed, with clean sheets, for a single person, per night" at six cents; and, "ditto with two persons in a bed, each person, per ditto" four cents. These prices are translated for shillings and pence, a Maryland shilling at that time being worth about 13 cents. New Exhibit The California and the Mary land bills of fare are from a fas cinating exhibition just opened by the New York Historical So ciety, selected from more than 10,000 hotel, restaurant, dining Quotes From the News Br UNITED PRESS Former President Truman cn whom he favors as a Democratic presidential candidate: "I am as neutral as a man could possibly be in my position . . . I am making no choice until the Democratic convention." Dr. Paul Dudley While. Boston heart specialist, en President Eisenhower's recovery and prospects for the future: Ifc is impossible to say whether he will be physically able to run in 1956." ' New York Gov. Averell Harriman asked if he was "morally bound" 4o back Adlai Stevenson as a 1956 presidential candidate: "I have no obligation to Stevenson whatsoever." ; Sen. George W. Malone, who recently completed a 10-week tour of Russia, on the question of -trading strategic materials with the Russians: "It's silly to say we can sell anything to them that is not stra tegic. When you are getting ready for war, shirt buttons are strategic." Pope Pius XII stressing the importance of will power in an address to 80,000 athletes, who performed before the Pontiff in an unprecedented tribute: "It is not the strength of one's muscles ... it is the assured dominion over one's spiritual faculties ... to win in sports it is not so important as to prove one's skill and fortitude." Adolf Hitler's former valet, Heinz Linge, telling how he helped cremate the bodies of the Nazi dictator and his bride, Eva Braun: "I helped to carry their bodies into the courtyard, pour gaso line on them and set it afire." Vice-President Richard M. Nixon on President Eisenhower's de- ireoto be more active "I think the major problem with the President in his recovery is to hold him down." ' Indiana Got. George Craig rebuking both sides in the shoot ing, violence at the strikebound Perfect Circle Corp. foundry in New Castle: "We're not going to discuss'who fired the first shot. Neither one ef you had the right to have arms for such purpose." In 20 seconds you appear to have grown an entirely new and flawless skin This is a very different make-up. In fact, it is much more than a make-up. It veils your skin completely, thereby hiding lines, shadows, and those tiny imperfections which have a way all their own of staring out Actually, within 20 sec onds after you smooth on Lanolin Plus Liquid Make-Up, you appear to have grown an entirely new and flawless skin. That's because Lanolin Plus Liquid Make-Up not only covers perfectly, but is radiantly alive with living color! 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At the Ward House, in '49, a single bowling alley in the base ment rented for $5000 a month, cash in advance, and a small room was $250 a month. They lived big in the early gold rush days. Rilzy Drinks "A Back on the East Coast, things had been different. Consider the prices of these fine drinks in the bar and oyster saloon of INDONESIA COUNTS VOTES Djakarta, Indonesia U.R) Indonesian officials today began an official count of the 30,000, 000 votes cast in Indonesia's first parliamentay election. A United Press tabulation of un official results gave the Nation alists 7,504,479, the Masjumi 6, 974,139, the Moslem Scholars 6.407,429 and the Communists 5,864,636. the Merchants Hotel in 1836. Under liquors, brandy and "Hen nessy's pale" were five cents. And a nickel could get you any of these "fancy drinks" Merit River, I.O.U., Smashers, Frank lin Peculiars, Veto's, Timber Doodles, and Olympics. A Radiator Punch was 15 cents. Life of Man, Perfect Love, and Orgeat Cordials were 5 cents ,each. There were giants in the 1800s. In the Maxwell House, Nashville, Tenn., the Christmas menu of 1879 showed a huge table d'hote dinner grab what you like with the following under the game section alone: Leg of Cumber land Mountain black bear, sauce poivrade; Tennessee opossum baked with sweet potatoes; Ken tucky 'coon, devil's sauce; sad dle of Minnesota venison, with red currant jelly. There was scarcely an ulcer in the land in that century. Monday, October 10, 193S MEDrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE McLEOD Visitors in McLeod News McLeod Mr. and Mrs. Leon Close of . Medf ord were over night guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Harding Sr. the week end of Sept. 26. House guests at "Firlough Lodge" on Rogue river are Ed die Nathan and Wilma Echert of Los Angeles and Lionel Joy of Salinas, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Howe of Charlotte, Mich., and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Howe of Mt Pleas ant, Mich., are spending some time visiting their brother Irwin and wife and their sister, Mrs. Wilmer Ragsdale and family. Lt. and Mrs. Don Smith and son of El -Paso, Tex., were over night guests Thursday, Sept. 29, at the home of Mrs. Smith's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Richardson. Mrs. H. T. Bailey of Sumner, Wash., is the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Barber. Glenda and Randy Nelson of Ashland spent the week of Oct. 1 at "Folding Hills"- ranch,- the guests of their grandparents, Mr and Mrs. Ranald Axtell and their uncle Monte. Luncheon guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Richardson on Wednesday, Oct. 5, were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ditsworth of Ashland and Mrs. Arthur Hume and Mrs. Harry Harding Sr. " Mr. and Mrs. James Holt of Medford are now living in the former Barber residence on Rogue river. House guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Tockstein are Mrs. Ber tie Johnston and son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Shaw, all of San Francisco, and Mr. and Mrs. Donald McLain of Eureka, Calif. Word has been received that Lt. and Mrs. Richard Barber are the parents of a daughter born in Fort Sill'Okla., on Sept. 30. The little girl has been named Linda Lee Barber. Grandpa and grandma Barber, who live at McLeod on Rogue river, are beaming these days. -' Mr. and - Mrs. Herb Cartlon are leaving Oct. 13 for a week's vacation with friends in Fresno. Calif. The Hardings will be in charge of the Carlton ranch dur ing their absence. Dead line for Sunday Classified I at noon Saturday GETS ALBANY JOB Albany, Ore. U.R) Hal Byer, well-known radio sports an nouncer, has been named mana ger of the Albany Chamber of Commerce. Timber cutting in Norway reached a volume of 241 mil lion cubic feet in the first helf of 1955, compared with 247, 100,000 cubic feet In the first half of 1954. 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