LIFE 1891

Historical Highlights from 1891 :

• In New Orleans, a mob lynches 11 Italians who had been found NOT guilty of the murder of Police Chief David Hennessy.
• Mammoth coal mine disaster leads to implementation of mine safety rules.
• The Music Hall in New York (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening.
• The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago.
• First long-distance transmission of alternating current by the Ames power plant near Telluride, Colorado.
• Cole Porter, composer and songwriter, is born.
• Jim Hogg becomes the first native Texan to be governor of that state.
• Thomas Edison’s prototype kinetoscope is first displayed, early motion picture viewer.

6 rolls bread – 5¢
1 lb. fish – 8¢
15 potatoes – 10¢
3 lb. Oatmeal – 10¢
6 eggs – 13¢
2 lbs. chops or a steak – 20¢