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Page 369
As they were taking the train away , children came selling grapes around the station at 2 cents a box . " Don't let us open the suit case ! ... That was an advance of 2,000 per cent . on the price the buyers used to pay him .
As they were taking the train away , children came selling grapes around the station at 2 cents a box . " Don't let us open the suit case ! ... That was an advance of 2,000 per cent . on the price the buyers used to pay him .
Page 374
He is the man who is paying 75 per cent . too much for those grapes that ought not to have cost more than 10 cents . If those potatoes could have been sold direct from the farmer to the city man for 75 cents , it would have netted the ...
He is the man who is paying 75 per cent . too much for those grapes that ought not to have cost more than 10 cents . If those potatoes could have been sold direct from the farmer to the city man for 75 cents , it would have netted the ...
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He is making a striking success of his wheat land , which yields him an annual return of 10.6 per cent on a valuation of $ 170,000 . Having arranged his land to the best advantage , seen that it is fertilized and cultivated so that the ...
He is making a striking success of his wheat land , which yields him an annual return of 10.6 per cent on a valuation of $ 170,000 . Having arranged his land to the best advantage , seen that it is fertilized and cultivated so that the ...
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