My Great Grandpas Financial Diary for March 1912.....very exciting this month...they made the final payment (or as he calls it NOTE) on the farm...YEAH!!!!
what they sold or earned for income:
26 lbs of butter = $7.86
152 dozen eggs = $30.58
2 bushel of apples = $1.20
1 month teaching salary = $50.00
1 calf that weighed 142 lbs = $11.36 so $101.00 came in
what they purchased:
groceries (not specific) = $5.92
coal = $1.35
baker = $1.20
Alvin Morey = $1.00
mill feed & flour = $15.15
daily paper = $1.25
pair of hogs = $10.00
thread = .20
hog trough = $2.50
medicine for the Mrs. = $1.00
100 hatching eggs = $3.50
Final note/interest payment = $105.00 so $148.07 went out
we will be taking a trip to Mt Bethel PA in the summer.....will post pictures of the farm he paid off (if it is still there)
Pleasant Dreams!!!
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