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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
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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."
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car, steamboat, and ocean liner
menus collected by Arnold Shir
cliffe. The collection, presented
to the society by Harold Shir
cliffe of Chicago, in memory of
his father, spotlights 150 years
of American eating.
The plenty-money gold rush
days of dollar-an-egg dinners,
for instance, seems to have van
ished just 10 years later in San
Francisco. The bill of fare at
Bucklin's "What Cheer Hotel,"
which catered to miners, shows
beefsteak and onions, with fried
potatoes, at 10 cents. Single
rooms were 25, 35 and 50 cents
a night.
Guests at the What Cheer wele
"requested to avoid the filthy
practice of spitting on the car
pets, smoking, lying upon beds
with their boots on."
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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