LIFE 1892

Historical Highlights from 1892 :

• Ellis Island begins receiving immigrants to the United States.
• At the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, the first official basketball game is played.
• The General Electric Company is established through merger.
• The Sierra Club is organized by John Muir in San Francisco, California.
• The Chicago “L” elevated railway opens.
• The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found violently murdered.
• Homer Plessy, who is one-eighth African heritage with light skin, is arrested for sitting (deliberately) in the whites-only car in Louisiana.
• Vogue magazine launched.
• Andrew Carnegie combines all of his businesses into the Carnegie Steel Company, giving him a monopoly.

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¢