LIFE 1893
Historical Highlights from 1893 :
- Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio.
- The rank of Chief Petty Officer is established in the U.S. Navy.
- The 1893 World’s Fair, also known as the World’s Columbian Exposition, opens.
- Panic of 1893: A crash on the New York Stock Exchange starts a depression.
- The United States Supreme Court legally declares the tomato to be a vegetable.
- Katharine Lee Bates writes “America the Beautiful”, after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak in Colorado.
- Brothers Charles and Frank Duryea drive the first gasoline-powered motorcar in America on public roads.
- Ulysses S. Grant IV, geologist and paleontologist, is born.
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¢
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