Cost of living in German towns

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Identifikator:: 883887894

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-6560

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Ebert, Georg

Title:: Die Entwicklung der Weißgerberei

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: A. Deichert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung

Year of publication:: 1913

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XL, 408 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: 1.Teil. Die Rohstoffe

Collection:: Economics Books

OSCHERSLEBEN. 401 sold in miniature cheeses, weighing from 2 to 2| ounces each when quite fresh, at the uniform price of 5 pfennige or a fraction over \d. The only other kind sold is Limburg cheese at 6^d. per lb., but this is found in very few shops in working-class streets. Fresh butter is sold at Is. 2\d. per lb., and a kind imported from Friesland by one dealer, who has four branch shops, is sold at Is. Ud. per lb. Margarine is very largely purchased, the prices for the three qualities being 8|d., 7\d. and 6fd. per lb., of which the first is in greatest demand. Only two kinds of bread are baked, “ white,” consisting of wheat, and “ grey ” which is made from finely-ground rye. The dark coloured and coarse kind usually known as “ black bread ” is not sold here at all. Wheaten bread is not made into loaves but into rolls which resemble a small bun in appearance. These are taken only with coffee at the " first breakfast” before going to work. Rye bread is sold in long fiat loaves rounded at the ends and top, and usually weighing 7 to 7§ lbs. Bread is not sold by weight but per loaf or per roll, 4he equivalent prices in October, 1905, being 9d. per 4 lbs. English for wheaten bread, and 4Jd. to 5\d. per 4 lbs. English for rye bread. For his second breakfast, taken from 8.30 to 9 o’clock, the workman eats slices of rye bread covered with butter or margarine and slices of sausage, and drinks either beer or “ Schnaps.” The sale of milk is practically in the hands of one of the sugar manufacturing firms, which farms on a large scale, yet purchases also from farmers and milk-dealers. The price of pure or “full” milk was in 1905 2d. per quart. The coal used at Oschersleben is the kind known as lignite or “ brown coal,” a coal much softer and possessing much less heating power than the English pit coal. This is got from mines in the neighbourhood. Many of the workmen fetch this coal from the mines, a distance of about three miles, in hand wagons, as they are able to buy it there at the low price of 3 id. per cwt. Briquettes are also used for heating purposes, though in small quantities, and in October, 1905, these cost 9fd. per cwt. For cooking purposes coke obtained from brown coal, after extracting paraffin, &c., is used in every working-class household, as already explained. This was sold at Is. 1 \d. per cwt. Petroleum, which is entirely American, costs 9£d. per gallon. The following table summarises the predominant prices paid by the working classes in October, 1905, and May, 1907. During this interval bacon had somewhat fallen in price, while potatoes, flour, bread, milk, and coal had all risen. Predominant Prices paid by the Working Classes in October, 1905, and May, 1907. Commodity. Coffee ... Sugar :— Loaf ... ... ••• White Granulated ... Bacon :— at ... ... ... Streaky Eggs Cheese :— Country Cheese Limburg Butter ... Margarine Potatoes Flour, Wheat Bread, Rye (grey) Milk Lignite briquettes Coke ... .. Paraffin Oil, American Predominant Price. ... per lb. ... „ ... „ ... per Is. October, 1905. 11 d. 2# d-t 2^d. 8fd. to lid. 8§d. „ lid. 13 to 16 May, 1907. lid. 2# 2\d., 2\d. 8|d. 8|d. to 9fd. 13 to 16 per lb. per 7 lbs. per 4 lbs. per qt. per cwt. per gallon 3|d. to 4|d. 6^d. Is. 2fd. 8%d. 21d. to 3d. ll\d. 4|d. to 5\d. 2d. 9# Is. Hd. 9|d: 3fd. to 4fd. 6^d. Is. 2\d. 8|d. 3d. to 3fd. Is. 0\d. 5\d. to 6d. 2fd. lf)id. Is. 2|d. 9# 3 E 29088

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