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Leaf through the thing and prepare to be stunned by other prices. You could get a new house on your own plot for less money than you'd pay for a FIAT car. A car
by Yetanfou 10y ago
Leaf through the thing and prepare to be stunned by other prices. You could get a new house on your own plot for less money than you'd pay for a FIAT car. A car mechanic made $3.50 for an 8-hour day (from a 'wanted' ad) which would buy him 12 handkerchiefs (from another ad).
Some things - like cars, clothing - got radically cheaper. Some things - like houses - got radically more expensive. Other things just followed inflation.
BTW, when leafing through the pages you might notice Nikolai Tesla proclaiming he'd soon be powering street cars in Dublin with power generated in the US, transmitted wirelessly, or transmit phone calls through a wireless system where 'each word would be transmitted with 1.000.000 hp power'...