The Daily Dispatch: March 20, 1863., [Electronic resource], Price of Living.

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Price of Living.

--Two of the leading hotels of Richmond charge $8 per diem for board, and another $6. At the restaurants and boarding houses a "light, airy, and graceful" snack consisting of a thin slice of bread, without butter, and a thinner slice of the hind leg of an attenuated gobbler costs one dollar. The current price of butter is now $3.50 per pound. Geese were selling yesterday in the Second Market at $10 a piece. Turkeys long ago went up a bow shot beyond that enormous figures Meats of most kinds are hold at the old figures — say from $1 to $1.25 per pound; bacon, $1.60. Tallow candies, (a very inferior article,) are now selling at $2 per pound.

The Daily Dispatch: March 20, 1863. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. March 20, 1863. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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