Word: beef
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...main purpose of the club to serve thoroughly good food at cost. Tea, coffee and cocoa cost three cents; a glass of milk, two cents; various kinds of bread, one cent; pies, five cents; cold meats, ten cents; eggs, eight and ten cents; soups, five cents; roast beef or mutton, twelve cents; vegetables four or two cents; pudding, five cents;. There are various other dishes at the discretion of the steward. Last year some men paid only two dollars per week for board; this year they will pay a little more. Men may board very well for three dollars...
There are 850 quarts of milk used every day at Memorial, and about 500 pounds of beef are bought whenever they have beef for dinner. Two barrels of flour are consumed in a day. All victuals left over are sold early in the morning to the poor at the rate of ten cents a basket...