The housewife who lives by the budget system can set aside for the Thanksgiving dinner this year about the same amount of cash she used last year and come out all right judging from price quotations given by grocers and butchers in the city. There is little change this year over prices which prevailed last year as far as turkeys, roasts, vegetables, cranberries, plum pudding, fig pudding and other commodities, except nuts and fruits, go.
The noble turkey, the bird with which the celebration of Thanksgiving has been fatally liked for him since the Pilgrim fathers landed on American soil, will retail this year between 35 and 40 cents a pound “on the hoof.” The number of the birds purchased will determine the price. The price last year was about the same.
That housewife that does not wish to resort to the chopping block can buy her turkey already sacrificed and dressed, except for the stuffing and gravy, for between 60 and 70 cents per pound.
The cranberry still runs free of monopoly and as a result it is cheaper than last year, grocers report. A year ago cranberries sold for 25 cents a quart and this year they can be purchased for 20 cents. Mince meat, which is essential to the success of any Thanksgiving dinner to many persons, is selling for the same as last year.
Vegetables will sell at practically the same price which prevailed last year. Take your choice. Green peas, black-eyed peas, Mexican jumping beans, Boston baked beans, Irigh potatoes, white potatoes, sweet potatoes, candied yams with plenty of juice, sugar and gravy, cabbage, cauliflower and sweet pickles will all be in the reach of the person who was able to buy them a year ago.
Fruits are a little higher than a year ago but nuts are cheaper, most grocers report. Raisins, except those from California, are cheaper. Grapes are higher and there will be practically no Malaga grapes obtainable in the whole country on account of an embargo against their importation.
Apples raised in the east will cost about the same but the prices of California and Oregon apples will be higher on account of short crops. Nuts, with the exception of pecans, will be cheaper. The pecans will sell for about the same price as last year.
Eggs are a little higher than they were a year ago, but many of the other ingredients of this Thanksgiving dinner, such as butter, sugar and milk, have not varied materially in price.
From page 2 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Nov. 25, 1924
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