Sunday, May 31, 2009

Ypsilantian J. H. Wortley's 1913 Grocery Tab: Week 3

Here's week 2 of Wortley's tab, from Monday, January 13 to Sunday, January 19, 1913:

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If any readers can puzzle out "Bu Arkin," or any of the other mystifying notations on this tab, that would be very helpful!

The week starts off with some bread, coffee, Jello, and celery on Monday, a quart of "cberries" (cranberries?) and more bread on Wednesday, yet more bread a day later and dog biscuits (this really surprised me!--I had no idea commercial dog biscuits were made this early!), cabbage on Friday along with some remarkably cheap salmon and 3 mysterious lemons. For Saturday, it's more bread, celery, oranges and oysters, and a dozen expensive eggs.
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  1. UnknownJune 2, 2009 at 11:48 AM

    "Bu" is an abbreviation for bushel. I believe it says "1/2 bushel apples." I wonder if the notation for "kefehroffer" means the clerk was not a native English speaker and was making some notations in German?

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