Volume 16 , Issue 26

1914 August 12 Food Prices Soaring, Farmers Happy

The Daily Ardmorite, dated Wednesday, 12 August 1914, out of Ardmore, Oklahoma, had the following front page headline: Food Prices Soaring, Farmers Happy. Foreign war blocks traffic, and yet food stuffs were going up by leaps and bounds. Government may act.

If high prices on food stuffs continued for any length of time back in August, 1914, the farmers of this country would make some money. While meats had advanced in price the hog market had grown better. The top price of the year was paid the day before to T. E. Wilson of Springer, who recently purchased the R. F. Scivally farm home. Mr. Wilson sold to J. M. Pollard here hogs at 8 1/2 cents, the total sum paid for the shipment amounting to $1,940.

The hogs were said to be choice stuff, and they brought the highest price paid here in some time for porkers in 1914.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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